Senior Lead Finance Analyst

Location:

4900 Tiedeman Road, Brooklyn Ohio

Job Brief (Purpose): 

As a member of the Accounting Center Development team under the Financial Systems Support and Data Enrichment team within Finance, responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to:

• Supporting the development, implementation, testing, documentation and on-going validation and execution of Workday Accounting Center processes,
• Creating and managing processes to be used to develop system interfaces, hierarchies, translations, mappings, and other control information in our Workday Accounting Center framework.  
• Ensuring consistency and alignment between Workday Accounting Center processes and our other Workday modules (General Ledger, Finance Data Hub, Foundational Data Model)
• Working both independently and as a lead for cross-functional teams to perform business, data, and application analysis to gather and document business requirements on a variety of strategic project initiatives within Finance.

Essential Job Functions:

General Job Requirements:

• Translate client requirements to technical specifications, and work with technical teams to design, test and implement projects.
• Able to manage interests of multiple stakeholders with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and priorities.
• Understand and process changes to production applications and models (hierarchies, translation tables, parameters, data loads, security, reports, etc.)
• Research complex data and process issues.
• Perform data and process validation during testing and production phases of projects and ongoing work efforts.
• Provides client support throughout testing and production phases of projects and ongoing work efforts.
• Participate simultaneously in multiple work efforts and high priority activities.
• Maximize the use of automated technology to achieve the highest level of quality and efficiency in the support of the financial systems.
• Able to effectively work independently and as part of team to offer and implement solutions to achieve business opportunities.

Specific Job Requirements:

• Develop thorough understanding of foundational financial systems and work to configure them to support management reporting and accounting processes and methodologies.
• Work to continuously improve production validation and other processes.
• Perform impact analysis on new accounting and regulatory requirements as well as internal change requests to assess impact on new and existing financial systems and deliverables.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive control policies and procedures to ensure the integrity of the financial reporting process. 

• Utilize technology skills to engineer effective and streamlined processes.

Required Qualifications/Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree (Finance, Information Technology, Accounting, or related field) or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of analytical experience in Finance, Business or Related Field preferred
• Strong financial and/or accounting acumen.
• Knowledge of data mining concepts and approaches.
• Experience dealing with complex and large data sets from multiple sources to support analytical processes.
• Quantitative, analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills. 
• Interest, willingness, and ability to assimilate information quickly and succinctly.
• Action oriented; takes initiative to challenge current processes and implement change.
• Organized self-starter with the ability to think and work independently and creatively.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills coupled with the ability to work and communicate with personnel at all levels in the Corporation, including Finance and Technology professionals and executives of different and varied levels of background.
• Ability to understand and interpret client requests/needs, and respond to questions with clear and effective answers, and give cohesive presentations.
• Proven team player, willing to assist others as needed to ensure that group deadlines are met and quality standards are achieved.

Preferred Skills:

• Workday Financials Experience, specifically related to Integrations (Workday Studio, Workday Enterprise Interface Builder, Workday Connectors, etc.), Workday Reporting, and Workday Prism support and operations.
• Proficiency in using analytical tools (GCP, DB2, SQL, Visual Basic, SAS (EG), Tableau and the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Access, and PowerPoint)
• Experience working with financial system reporting environments (i.e., TM1, Cognos, Essbase, Oracle, QRM, AxiomSL, mainframe z/OS, etc.)