Senior Financial Business Systems Analyst

About the role

This position is eligible for full city benefits including health insurance, dental, vision, and life insurance; paid vacation and personal leave; up to 6-12 weeks of paid parental leave; retirement contributions toward a pension plan and/or 401(k); a robust Employee Assistance Plan (EAP); up to $4,000 tuition reimbursement annually; and discounted supplemental benefits like pet insurance and legal services.

Responsibilities

• Identifies and implements improvements to Finance Department business processes through analysis, assessment, coordination, partnering, configuration, testing, and documenting changes to related Workday business solutions and related systems.
• Ensures the proper function, operation, and data integrity of Workday business processes and associated financial operations systems.
• Assesses functional requirements and initiates complex installations of ERP technologies that meet interdepartmental needs.
• Ensures cross-functional access to systems in accordance with established city policy and security requirements.
• Meets with users to develop, maintain, produce, and distribute standard and custom reports and queries.
• Writes queries or reports to provide data for various analytical projects.
• Performs business process and data analysis.
• Utilizes established integration methodologies to map business processes to modules and administers user acceptance testing.
• Communicates, as needed, with programmers and other specialists on matters of file design, testing, debugging, security, storage, access, and related activities.
• Coordinates with Finance department and internal/external development teams to identify systems requirements and needs of the organization.
• Provides documentation and workflow analysis support for financial systems/process improvement recommendations.
• Participates in the planning and implementation of proposed recommendations and system changes.
• Develops, delivers, and administers training and related materials to end users.
• May provide system support following implementation.
• Integrates data from multiple data sources or functional areas, ensures data accuracy and integrity, and updates data as needed.
• Ensures all business data and systems are secure and adhere to established security standards and policies.
• Tests and validates new releases or enhancements.
• Documents, delivers, and administers training and related materials to end users.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business (or Public) Administration, or a similar field plus five years directly related work experience. Education and related work experience may be substituted one for the other on a year-for-year basis.

Skills and Abilities

• Possess intermediate to working-level knowledge of enterprise systems, data management, and/or applicable technological applications and solutions; web base usage; and, effective report writing methods and techniques.
• Possess skill and ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; manage own time, priorities, and resources to achieve goals; focus on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships, work as part of a team and effectively across different levels of management and various functional areas.
• Ability to comprehend and implement related business processes, methods, and techniques.
• Ability to research and implement related best practices; identify opportunities for process and system improvements either in existing designs or new functionalities.
• Ability to manage projects and multiple competing priorities simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Detail oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Ability to communicate highly technical ideas in clear, concise terminology that is understandable to department leaders and end users.
• Ability to be a resource in solving technical problems and initiating changes to processes and procedures to meet ongoing user needs.

Qualifications

• Prior work experience using One Solution, Salesforce Service Cloud, ServiceNow, or Workday.
• Possession of or ability to obtain Workday Financial Pro certification.