Business Systems Analyst

Company Description

By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world‑changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds skills and expertise. We are dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming environment where everyone can thrive.

Harvard University's Central Administration (CADM) is a 5,000+ employee organization that supports the university's overall excellence by understanding and serving the needs of its schools, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and surrounding communities. Through dynamic and collaborative partnerships, CADM provides high‑quality and efficient services to the schools to help them achieve their goals.

Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) is a community of Information Technology professionals committed to delivering service and technological solutions in support of teaching, learning, research and administration. We are recruiting an IT workforce that has both breadth in their ability to collaborate and innovate across disciplines and depth in specific areas of expertise. HUIT offers opportunities for IT professionals to learn and work in a unique technology landscape and service‑focused environment.

If you are a technically proficient, nimble, user‑focused, and accountable IT professional who also connects with the importance of collaborating well in a team environment, we are looking for you!

This is a fully benefited, full‑time Harvard University position that has been funded through 6/30/26. There is the possibility of renewal, contingent on funding and department & university priorities.

• Write and maintain calculation scripts in Oracle Planning's calc scripting language to model complex business logic and calculations for planning models.
• Define and maintain business rules in Oracle Planning and Groovy to enforce validation, constraints, and automation across planning processes.
• Configure drivers, dimensions, hierarchies and other metadata aspects of Oracle Planning models.
• Perform testing, debugging and troubleshooting of business rules to ensure calculations are functioning as intended.
• Provide ongoing support and guidance to business users on Oracle Planning functionality and processes.
• Analyze business requirements and workflow needs to recommend enhancements to existing Oracle Planning configurations.
• Develop training and documentation materials for business users.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into systems requirements and scoping
• Work on an Agile team to deliver technical solutions that meet our user's needs.
• Ensure that operational tasks are completed on time and coordinate with business units as needed.
• Participate in production support by responding to user tickets, user questions, system issues and requests for data sets, reports and system enhancements. Independently research and troubleshoot any issues. Consult other analysts as needed.
• Identify opportunities for process and/or system improvements. Make suggestions to implement those changes.
• Analyze business processes and requirements and document functional specifications for system enhancements and new applications.

Our Mission: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./about
We empower the Harvard community with essential and transformative technologies to advance education, knowledge, and discovery.
HUIT's core values are:

• Human‑centered
• University‑focused
• Innovation‑driven
• Team‑oriented

HUIT's IT Academy aims to enable each IT staff person to grow professionally and become a trusted partner to her or his team. The IT Academy is built on the belief that every IT staff member across the University (including technology employees at each school and campus) can grow in her or his area of expertise as well as building strong people and project management skills.

Learn more here: .

Basic Qualifications are the minimum threshold a candidate must meet in order to be considered for this role.

• 5+ years of post‑secondary…