Financial Systems Senior Analyst II; OneStream

Job Description

Financial Systems (FS) Senior Analyst II responsible for mapping business requirements to application functionality, leading continuous improvement, creating business cases, and providing financial systems and data support. This role analyzes complex business and system issues and works directly with business users, IT, and financial systems teams to improve processes and deliver analytics.

• Provides financial systems and data support based on the alignment of business processes within the financial systems platform
• Assists the business with performing queries and defining report requirements in an efficient manner for analysis and distribution to practice managers
• Communicates effectively with business users/owners, and proactively contributes ideas and proposes solutions to the business and financial systems team
• Updates systems inquiries accurately, from the business and internal team members, and in a timely and effective manner
• Develops solutions for financial systems data analysis to manage the business or support resolution of end user inquiries, including proper data extraction, storage, manipulation, processing and communicating
• Performs functional research or data mining to assist business owners in the pursuit of identifying key performance measures and indicators that drive reporting and analytics to manage the business, as needed
• Assists workstream business owners in the development of test scripts, policies and procedures
• Performs financial system configurations independently to meet business requirements as defined by the business or for maintenance
• Identifies and interprets trends and patterns in support issues and financial data, and proactively recommends actions and solutions
• Participates in cross functional teams to identify business risks and create analytics and dashboards to improve business processes
• Executes financial systems activities, as defined in the project plan and milestone assignments
• Leads the planning phase proactively, as needed
• Collaborates and strategizes with IT, Financial Systems and business teams proactively to drive system efficiencies across the business
• Configures and maintains security of the financial system solution, and promptly responds to security inquiries, including documenting security changes and corrective action taken within the inquiries
• Ensures integrity and confidentiality of sensitive data when creating new security access configurations and granting access to users
• Engages with management or Internal Audit to clarify security requests promptly
• Demonstrates understanding of business process workflows and how financial applications are used in support of those processes
• Identifies opportunities to improve or gain efficiencies within the financial systems or business processes, including creating and maintaining reporting tools and templates to facilitate the production of financial reports and dashboards
• Contributes to defining, planning, coordinating and executing financial systems updates and growth of end users’ knowledge consistently
• Participates in the internal audit of financial systems procedures, presenting the audit with evidence of executed systems processes and reports (in a clear, accurate and concise manner) in compliance of defined controls
• Participates in cross-functional financial systems teams to directly support the business, financial systems and create analytics and dashboards
• Supports and participates with team members when trends or problem resolutions indicate systems issues, necessitating future trainings or procedural issues needing resolution as identified by the team analyst or the business
• Develops and maintains appropriate FAQ documents to support resolution of end-user inquiries and questions received by the IT Service Desk
• Performs queries of financial database based on internal/external requests, and provides data reports of financial information
• Provides support to team members to ensure functional requirements are representing the need from the business
• Participates in optimizing the effectiveness of the financial systems through workflow analysis, data collection/reporting and creating…