Business Analyst (IT Finance)

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Job description

Title: Business Analyst (IT Finance)

Duration: FTE / Permanent

Location: Portland, OR (40% Remote - 60% Onsite)

NOTE - Candidate need to be local to the area

As a member of the Information Technology team, the Business Analyst is responsible for contributing to the development, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise-wide programs with a primary focus on data/systems flow analysis to support the Finance side of the business in achieving strategic goals and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

- Ensures applications meet user requirements by gathering information from users; documenting technical requirements, architecture, and design deliverables; and continuously working with users to negotiate technical solutions against business requirements.

- Effectively communicate and define technology considerations within the context of business requirements to a business audience.

- Conducts interviews and facilitate requirements gathering, process analysis and application design sessions with project stakeholders including internal IT partners and business partners.

- Documents analysis of existing business rules, processes, and systems to recommend process and system enhancements to improve business performance and maximize the effectiveness of available technology.

- Maintains understanding of CLIENT's business models, data relationships, and systems interfaces to determine requirements and formulate strategies for new and enhanced functionality.

- Manages the product or application backlog according to department standards; opportunity to set and to influence standards

- Recommends solutions spanning multiple technology areas, including application, database, middleware and security.

- Serves as the liaison and collaborates with internal users, external software providers, and the IT technical staff.

- Evaluates potential expansion projects, documenting requirements and design for new releases to support conversions and upgrades to vendor systems.

- Serves as primary analyst for assigned applications; mentors secondary and other analysts in that domain area.

- Participates and supports the design, development, implementation and sharing of system requirements best practices within the IT department.

- Assists with development to meet business requirements by analyzing business needs, testing, debugging and documenting programs and systems in alignment with department standards and practices.

- Assists with the documentation of application roadmaps to support strategic growth, including inter-related and data dependent applications, and future business needs.

- Recommends tools, operating environments, design and development standards, metrics, and technical documentation as required.

- Assist in implementation of system interoperability, data exchange, and process integration/workflow solutions using middleware and business process automation tools.

- Provides ongoing client support for technical system questions and problems; serves as subject matter expert for designated systems; analyzes and performs second or third level support, coordinating with vendors and other parties as necessary, and tracks to resolution; recommends alternative workarounds for system defects until system solutions can be implemented.

- Manages system users by creating, editing and assigning appropriate security levels where appropriate.

- Provides on-call support where required.

- Assists in developing user documentation and departmental policies and procedures that impact the use of application systems.

- Provides technical training, guidance and resource support for end users and department staff.

- Coordinates assigned projects. This includes being the point-of-contact for the overall effort.

- Create and manage deliverables for self-led projects; log, track and verify resolution for all project tasks to ensure business and technical scope is controlled to meet quality, timeline and budget expectations.

- Partners with business and IT teams to determine estimates on resources and timing to meet business needs and communicates to appropriate stakeholders.

- Communicates risks and proactively recommends risk mitigation strategies to leadership.

- Shares lessons learned to identify and to implement future department improvements at IT department meetings

Required Skills:

- Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) from a four-year college or university; 2-5 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

- Experience with software and processes in the Finance area is required.

- Experience with software and processes in ERP, Supply Chain, Distribution and Integration can be a plus.

- Ability to use the Internet, e-mail, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.

- Ability to diagnose and solve problems. Uses logic to solve problems with effective solutions; probing all different sources for answers; finding hidden problems and being effective at analysis.

- Skilled in prioritizing multiple tasks and demands. Can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish goals; uses resources effectively and efficiently arranges information and files in effective ways.

- Skill in technical writing for documentation and design purposes.

- Ability to initiate recommendations for an idea or position; pursues everything with initiative, energy, drive, and a need to bring efforts to closure.

- Ability to learn quickly when facing new problems; takes initiative to learn without being asked.; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; not afraid to ask questions

- Ability to collaborate with business and third-party service providers.

- Ability to work with others in a team-based environment.

- Ability to work in a frequently changing environment.

- Ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical users.

- Skill in technical writing for documentation and design purposes.

- Ability to write status reports, process descriptions, and procedures.

• - Skilled in facilitating and leading meetings in small group settings.