Financial Applications Analyst

The Financial Application Analyst serves as the Finance and Accounting functional owner and subject matter expert for financial applications, with primary responsibility for optimizing PDI as the company’s ERP and strengthening the systems, integrations, controls, and processes that support accurate and efficient financial operations. This role translates Accounting and business requirements into practical system solutions; troubleshoots and resolves complex application and data issues in partnership with IT;

and leads Finance-side testing, documentation, training, and continuous improvement. The role will also evaluate, select, and help implement a reconciliation solution and treasury management system (TMS), with a focus on automation, data integrity, scalability, and strong financial controls.

• Serve as the Finance and Accounting subject matter expert and functional owner for PDI, the company’s ERP, with responsibility for optimizing configuration, workflows, controls, financial data, reporting, and user experience.
• Partner with Accounting, Treasury, FP&A, IT, and Operational business teams to understand requirements, evaluate current-state processes, identify root causes and control gaps, and translate business needs into system and process solutions.
• Monitor financial application performance and data integrity; investigate complex interface, posting, reconciliation, and reporting issues and coordinate timely resolution with IT, vendors, and business owners.
• Establish clear monitoring and exception-management processes for key financial interfaces, including visibility to failures, root cause, ownership, resolution method, aging, recurrence, and financial impact.
• Lead Finance-side requirements, evaluation, selection, design, testing, implementation, and adoption of a reconciliation tool and a treasury management system (TMS).
• Manage financial application enhancements and upgrades from requirements through user acceptance testing, deployment, and post-implementation support; develop test scripts and validate results before production release.
• Evaluate opportunities to automate manual accounting processes, reduce spreadsheet dependence and duplicate entry, improve close efficiency, and strengthen financial controls.
• Develop, maintain, and govern financial system documentation, including process flows, system configurations, integration maps, data definitions, procedures, controls, test evidence, and issue-resolution history.
• Develop and maintain Finance-owned reports, queries, data extracts, and analytical tools; validate that reporting is complete, accurate, and reconciles to the general ledger and source systems.
• Support month-end and year-end close by ensuring financial applications and interfaces operate as expected, resolving system-related exceptions, and providing timely analysis of issues affecting financial results.
• Partner with IT on access, security roles, segregation of duties, change management, integrations, and system support while maintaining clear accountability between technical ownership and Finance’s responsibility for financial requirements and validation.
• Coordinate with software vendors and implementation partners, manage open issues and enhancement requests, and assess proposed solutions for business value, control implications, cost, and scalability.
• Train and support Finance and business users on financial applications, new functionality, standardized processes, and effective use of system capabilities.
• Support internal and external audit requests related to financial applications, system-generated reports, interfaces, change controls, access, and automated controls.

• Bachelor’s…