Sr Business Systems Analyst

Information Technology

Grade - G13

Minimum Salary - $85,674 (Commensurate with experience)

Exempt

JOB SUMMARY

This position is responsible for bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions within the Finance department. This crucial role will promote proactive approaches using the available financial systems to solve business needs/problems by: analyzing and leading all department related activities; diagnosing and resolving issues; documenting application configuration; ensuring continuity and successful delivery of departmental services to users throughout the organization; maintaining data integrity; planning and leading production system changes; leading software upgrades and updates; administering system security; and managing all departmental technology endeavors. The ideal candidate will possess strong financial acumen, technical systems expertise, and excellent stakeholder management skills.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Lead the design and implementation of new applications, upgrades, or enhancements to current application systems to support financial reporting, payroll, general ledger, procurement, project accounting, budgeting, accounts payable and receivable, and other finance-related functions.

Partner with Finance leadership to perform project management tasks in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle, which include: business requirements gathering, establishing project tasks/timelines/deliverables, documenting specifications and test plans, facilitating and coordinating workgroups, issue management and escalation, coordination of resources, develop go-live procedures and plans, and provide post go-live support.

Maintain awareness of departmental and corporate strategic direction and the potential impact of those plans on current and future systems. Recommend solutions to align with defined business objectives and initiatives. Identify future technology requirements, best practices, and evaluate opportunities to leverage existing technology.

Function as the primary liaison between internal IT as well as outside vendors and the Finance department to ensure the functional users' needs are addressed. Collaborate with other Business System Analysts and departmental experts to identify innovative technology solutions to improve business processes and efficiency. Work with management to prepare project proposals, budgets, and business justification for implementation.

Create and manage service requests (SR's) with support vendors and manage cases throughout their respective software lifecycles in accordance with established change control policies and procedures.

Serves as subject matter expert regarding practices and structures in the Finance department and their relationships with existing and new business and practices. Helps identify process improvements through changes in practice, standardization, or automation. Provide training on new applications to the Finance department and create training materials as needed. Ensure accurate work instruction and training documentation, process mapping, and workflow diagramming is maintained.

Respond to and resolve issues that arise within the business applications and the Finance department. At times this may involve off-hours and weekend coverage.

Develop and create applications, queries, views, reports, and analysis tools to empower management and end users to make more informed business decisions. Analyze data and work with teams to recommend automated process solutions and provide technological support in planning process changes. Provide on-going analytical reporting support.

Lead testing activities, including documenting test plans, creating, and running test scripts, updating scripts and information in the company's established automated testing tools, and documenting and submitting issues to Enterprise Application Development Team or application vendor for correction, both during and after system changes. This includes identifying and mitigating risks to the business operations associated with software upgrades and releases.

Manage and support the maintenance and content for the Finance department and the company's intranet, and information to be provided on the company's internet. Ensure setup is aligned with various business processes and objectives.

Audit end-user data input. Develop procedures to monitor and maintain data integrity of major financial systems. Analyze the source of the problem for data integrity errors and determine corrective action needed.

Serve as an application administrator to establish and maintain security and user responsibilities appropriately match employee duties. Coordinate the periodic user access and responsibilities review.

Perform other duties as assigned.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Generally, works a 40-hour week in an office environment. Requires travel between locations and for training and job skill enhancement. Occasionally required to provide off-hour support, including weekend coverage, and incident response.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's Degree preferably in Finance/Accounting, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field; and.

Six (6) years' experience with Enterprise software applications, technology, and services such as Oracle EBS/SAP, HCM, SQL/SQL Developer, and PeopleSoft with three (3) years' experience specifically supporting the finance department.

Valid driver's license.

Louisville Water provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.