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

Description

• 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

• 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