Senior Business Analysis - Finance

At the University of Phoenix, we are committed to the future of work by providing a fully remote, work-from-home environment. This strategy enables us to attract top talent nationwide. Are you looking for a rewarding and fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the opportunity to make a significant impact while collaborating with a team of fun, innovative individuals? Would you prefer to work with an organization that positively contributes to the world?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

Are you searching for a rewarding, fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the ability to make a big impact while working side-by-side with a team of fun, innovative people? Ideally, would you like this position to be with an organization that makes a positive contribution to the world? If so…we would love to hear from you!

University of Phoenix is a leading higher education institution founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling. Our mission is to improve the lives of our students, their families and future generations through higher education. Our values (which hopefully you share) are:
Brave. Honest. Focused.

Our University values and embraces all team members and their unique perspectives. We fundamentally believe in fostering an environment which deeply respects, celebrates, and actively encourages a diverse workforce. We are committed to hiring – and learning from – those who share our passion to help others achieve their educational aspirations.

We offer excellent benefits, an effective recognition program, and outstanding learning and development tools, including tuition vouchers for employees and their qualified family members.

A Senior Business Analyst, Finance is the primary liaison with business and IT partners to evaluate the needs of the most complex finance business systems and to provide recommendations on system solutions or procedures. A Senior Business Analyst, Finance ensures the scope of work requested to enhance or modify existing application processes is clearly documented, communicated and validated while working closely with IT experts to design, develop, test and validate solutions that meet the business requirements.

• As the primary liaison and point of contact between IT and the assigned functional business area(s) for routine software development and enhancement projects; develop comprehensive project plan for large-scale projects; prepare and facilitate status meetings and reports; manage resources in accordance with project schedule.
• Create detailed documentation of functional business processes, including business case, as-is and to-be process flow diagrams, report specifications, functional requirements, and data mapping and flow diagrams.
• Perform research and analysis for proposed projects to determine feasibility, return on investment (ROI), level of effort and durability; present findings and recommendations to management.
• Define testing requirements, including regression, user acceptance and other tests as needed, staging data and perform final test execution to ensure business needs are met; support quality assurance and control efforts via data analysis during pre- and post-implementation reviews of software development projects.
• Interface and develop strong working relationships with internal and external team members to understand and resolve their requests.
• Perform other duties as assigned or apparent.

NOTE:

The primary accountabilities above are intended to describe the general content and requirements of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or most of the primary accountabilities listed above. Specific goals or responsibilities…