Sr. Business Systems Analyst – Oracle Finance

MAIN JOB RESPONSIBILITIES / COMPETENCIES
Reporting to the Sr. Manager - Finance, the incumbent will be crucial in optimizing STAAR financial systems and processes using their expertise in Oracle Fusion Finance applications. Responsibilities will include collaborating with the Accounting, Finance and IT teams to design, implement, and support technical solutions that align with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities 
Business Requirement Analysis 
•    Partners with business stakeholders to analyze, define and document business requirements, within and across functional areas
•    Drives best practices during requirements gathering and modeling
•    Has a strong focus on gathering core requirements, beyond stated requirements and correctly places these within a broader context
•    Understands business environment and helps to connect/align relevant business stakeholders
Process Modeling and Design
•    Partners with business stakeholders to analyze, define and document business processes within and across functional areas
•    Drives best practices during requirements gathering and modeling
•    Understands business environment and helps to connect/align relevant business stakeholders
•    Manages stakeholder expectations and communications within and beyond functional track
Solution Design
•    Responsible to design and document cross-functional and global solutions, drawing on functional expertise of functional and technical team members or vendors, as appropriate
•    Advises on solutions prepared by peers or supporting team, and champions good design practices
Documentation
•    Documents and reviews broader team documentation
•    Supports team in identifying and defining relevant documentation templates pertaining to solution delivery
•    Is a champion for knowledge transfer to enable/empower other team members
Functional Design
•    Develops functional designs for applications, integrations and conversions
•    Ability to work on multiple functional areas and integrations with third party products
•    Keeps up to date with industry trends and vendor capabilities to produce robust functional designs
•    Reviews functional designs and obtains sign-offs with the cross functional business and IT teams
•    Provides inputs into business processes based on design capabilities
•    Champions sustainable, forward-looking functional designs
Testing & Test Design
•    Coordinates integration testing, validates test cases with stakeholders for user acceptance testing and training, and obtains sign-offs
•    Coordinates defects clarification, triage and coordinate resolution with engineering teams
Project Management
•    Manages multiple application releases and projects
•    Manages stakeholder expectations
•    Designs release scope and schedule in line with business goal, prioritization and IT capacity
System Configurations
•    Configures applications in line with business goals
•    Designs forward looking configurations by recognizing future needs aligned with the business roadmap
•    Develops configuration standards
Day to Day Support (Production Support)
•    Supports and trains junior resources and oversees quality in triage and troubleshooting practices
•    Leads troubleshooting efforts on critical issues with cross functional teams through resolution
•    Identifies improvements to address repeat issues
Training and Change Management
•    Works with functional leadership teams to set expectations and conduct planning and execution of SME training activities
•    Defines, communicates, and implements support and engagement plans
•    Analyzes adoption rates and issues and assesses business case realization and proposes solutions to improve

Other duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION & TRAINING
●    Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Finance, IT, or a related field or equivalent combination of education and work.

EXPERIENCE
●    5+ years of relevant experience.
●    Extensive experience in Oracle Cloud Applications with multi-ledger, multi-currency environments.
●    Extensive experience in a couple of Oracle Cloud Financial Modules such as GL, AP, AR, CM, FA, Costing etc.
●    Must have worked in a leading consulting company or in a well-known international Company in the implementation, support of the projects, and production support.
●    Prior private or public accounting experience highly desired.
●    Worked as Sr Systems Analyst or Support Analyst for Oracle Fusion ERP application modules.
●    Hands-on experience in designing and configuring ERP applica