Oracle Financials Business Analyst - Houston, United States - Addison Group

Description

Job Description

Oracle Financial Business Analyst

Office Status: Hybrid

Key Duties:

• Provide implementation and production support for the Financials processes and work with the business user and IT developers to identify and resolve issues

• Ensure Finance functions, reports, interfaces, and integration points are working properly

• Build relationships across the user community to ensure Oracle is leveraged to deliver successful business operations

• Work with business unit representatives as an IT partner to understand daily business processes and system requirements to support each process

• Help to set business users' expectations, evaluate risks, balance priorities, and generate solution alternatives

• Conduct meetings with business and functional partners to determine new requirements based on business priorities, legislative changes, and system needs

• Collaborate with project managers, IT team members, business leads and outside consultants to assist in supporting business processes

• Participate as a project team member to implement solutions that drive business value

• Prepare and conduct training for new and existing Oracle features

• Document procedures and prepare necessary test cases and test scripts for those procedures

• Write functional specification documents and coordinate the development, testing, implementation, and user support for the solutions

• Maintain a high level of motivation to learn, understand and contribute to the overall business success

• Ensure all assigned work adheres to corporate IT standards and methodologies

• Be a strong advocate for IT SOX compliance and Segregation of Duties (SOD)

• Productively contribute to multiple concurrent projects of varying scope and complexity with minimal supervision

• Support Internal and External Audit requests

Required Skills, Experience, and Education:

• Bachelor's Degree

• 8-10 years of progressive Oracle IT Business Analyst responsibilities supporting the Finance processes

• Proven experience with requirements gathering facilitation, testing, and training

• Accounting knowledge

• SDLC (System Development Lifecycle) experience – Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, Support

• Experience following a formal Change Management Process

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to present solutions/alternatives and influence the outcome of decisions

• Knowledge of the following Oracle modules and processes: General Ledger, iExpense, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payments, Projects, Fixed Assets, EBTax, and Cash Management.

• Flexibility to work overtime as needed to meet project and business commitments

• Travel requirements up to 25%

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy

• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities

• Self-starter with critical thinking skills