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Financial Systems Analyst

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Skills

Required

  • Excel
  • Word
  • Outlook
  • PowerPoint
  • databases
  • standard file layouts
  • conversions and
  • interfaces
  • Portal Searching

Preferred

  • change management
  • issue tracking
  • analyze options
  • SOX

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with team members, colleagues and vendor support teams to ensure that the financial systems are operating as designed and desired.
  • Collaborate with IT and F & A staff to ensure that interface files are being distributed or consumed appropriately.
  • Ensure that IT practices such as testing, change management and issue tracking are executed appropriately.
  • Utilize troubleshooting skills to identify issues, analyze options and provide or suggest solutions that will provide the best solution for the Company.
  • Key point of contact for financial application support issues.
  • Communicate with SCI end users, contractors and vendors to troubleshoot issues with financial systems.
  • Perform, execute and monitor appropriate audit controls as appropriate.
  • Participate in new system upgrades which may include learning, documentation, testing, functional/technical review or creation and execution of upgrade (or patches).
  • Prepares reports, performs analysis, and evaluates opportunities for providing a more stable environment for the appropriate financial system.
  • Assists in identifying best practices through a review of processes.
  • Establishes and maintains relationships with various departments.
  • Escalates obstacles/issues to meeting timelines and deliverables.
  • Reports project status according to prescribed timelines for a given project.
  • Monitor interface emails, interface results or reports to ensure that interface files are being distributed or consumed as per design.
  • Communicate or serve as the primary liaison on behalf of the team to communicate with vendor or members of the business community to ensure that interfaces are operating effectively.
  • Serve as the primary liaison with IT Interface teams to troubleshoot or monitor interface execution and interface performance as appropriate.
  • Monitor and manage issue tracking, user requests or interfaces to troubleshoot issues surrounding user management.
  • Create users and roles as desired while following strict guidelines for user management.
  • Perform SOX controls or necessary reporting on scheduled basis to ensure company policies and procedures are followed appropriately.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT or directly related field
  • Experience: Ten (10) years’ experience in a functional analyst, technical analyst or business analyst or similar role
  • Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
  • Communicates effectively in both written and oral
  • Knowledge in operational business processes and systems
  • Proficient in various software programs, including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint
  • Demonstrated knowledge of process improvement

Good leadership, inter-personal and motivational skills

  • Strong oral and written communication skills with all levels of management, end-users and peers
  • Basic understanding of databases and standard file layouts for conversions and interfaces
  • Postal Code: 70121
  • Category (Portal Searching): Information Technology
  • Job Location: US-LA - Jefferson