Functional Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Develop a comprehensive risk and control matrix covering key financial reporting processes, including automated, manual, system-supported manual, interim, and deficient controls.
• Analyze order-to-cash activities such as revenue recognition, pricing, credits, billing, cash application, customer data management, deductions, and accounts receivable to identify reporting risks and control needs.
• Review procure-to-pay workflows across vendor setup, purchasing, receiving, matching, invoice handling, payments, and accounts payable to document risk points and control effectiveness.
• Evaluate inventory and manufacturing-related accounting processes, including movement tracking, valuation, reserves, counts, reconciliations, production reporting, cost variances, yields, and plant-level control activities.
• Assess record-to-report operations spanning journal entries, reconciliations, consolidation, period-end close, financial statement preparation, and management review procedures.
• Examine controls related to fixed assets, capital projects, payroll impacts on financial reporting, treasury activities, cash management, banking, and debt oversight.
• Document governance requirements for financially relevant master data, including customers, vendors, items, bills of material, routings, pricing structures, chart of accounts, cost centers, and approval frameworks.
• Identify financial reporting implications tied to user access, segregation of duties, privileged access, change management, system interfaces, reconciliations, reporting outputs, data conversions, and spreadsheet-based tools.
• Define interim control requirements across environments operating on ERP Cloud, legacy manufacturing execution platforms, and legacy supply planning solutions, and recommend remediation or enhancement actions where gaps are found.

Requirements

• Proven experience in business analysis within finance, accounting operations, or enterprise business systems environments.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting controls, compliance risk assessment, and risk/control matrix development.
• Hands-on knowledge of core process areas such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory, manufacturing accounting, and record-to-report.
• Familiarity with general ledger structures, financial close activities, reconciliations, and cash flow-related reporting.
• Ability to assess operational, management, and inventory controls across integrated business and financial systems.
• Experience working with supply chain modules, accounting processes, and system implementation or transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills with the ability to translate process findings into actionable control recommendations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in business analysis within finance, accounting operations, or enterprise business systems environments.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting controls, compliance risk assessment, and risk/control matrix development.
• Hands-on knowledge of core process areas such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory, manufacturing accounting, and record-to-report.
• Familiarity with general ledger structures, financial close activities, reconciliations, and cash flow-related reporting.
• Ability to assess operational, management, and inventory controls across integrated business and financial systems.
• Experience working with supply chain modules, accounting processes, and system implementation or transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills with the ability to translate process findings into actionable control recommendations.

Skills

• Proven experience in business analysis within finance, accounting operations, or enterprise business systems environments.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting controls, compliance risk assessment, and risk/control matrix development.
• Hands-on knowledge of core process areas such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory, manufacturing accounting, and record-to-report.
• Familiarity with general ledger structures, financial close activities, reconciliations, and cash flow-related reporting.
• Ability to assess operational, management, and inventory controls across integrated business and financial systems.
• Experience working with supply chain modules, accounting processes, and system implementation or transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills with the ability to translate process findings into actionable control recommendations.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance.
• Access to top jobs, competitive compensation and benefits.
• Free online training.
• Company 401(k) plan.

Pay

• Competitive compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

• Long-term contract engagement in Burlington, Massachusetts area.