Senior Oracle ERP Business Analyst I – Financials

Job Summary:

The Senior Oracle ERP Business Analyst – Financials is a Finance-led business capability owner responsible for identifying capability gaps, standardizing business processes, defining and prioritizing Oracle ERP-enabled capabilities for the Financials workstream.

This role owns the business “what/why” outcomes, value ranking, business requirements intent, acceptance criteria approval, and business readiness for quarterly releases. The role partners closely with the IT ERP Product & Delivery organization, which owns the technical “how/when”: platform roadmap, solution design, delivery execution, environments, deployments, integrations, and technical readiness.

This position is also the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Financials workstream, partnering day-to-day with the existing business SME(s) in Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Finance to ensure requirements, decisions, testing, and readiness reflect real operational needs—without pulling the current SME/leaders into constant review and discussion mechanics.

The Financials focus areas are, but not limited to, General Ledger, GL Intercompany, Payables, Receivables, Asset and Lease Management, Expense, Cash Management, Principal Ledger, Automation, AI, and Reporting. 
This position is to collaborate with Internal Audit to embed business compliance/controls into defining business requirements and reporting requirements.  This role does not own production support, system administration or application configurations.

Job Duties:

1) Workstream SME Leadership (Financials)

• Serves as the Financial Systems SME and business capability owner for the Financials workstream, partnering with the business process owner/SME(s) who retain operational process ownership
• Partners collaboratively with the business process owner/SME(s) to validate process intent, confirm operational feasibility, and ensure changes are adopted effectively
• Translates business SME input into clear outcomes, requirements intent, and acceptance criteria; drive timely decisions to avoid delivery delays
• Maintains knowledge of current-state and target-state Financial module processes, key policies, reporting needs, and control expectations
• Develops and maintains business process maps (BPMN)
• Develops and executes test scenarios/scripts (SIT/UAT) and validate fixes 
• Contributes to training materials, jobs aids, SOPs and OGL

2) Business Capability Ownership (Financials)

• Defines target-state business capabilities and process outcomes for Financial modules (e.g., close efficiency, standardized accounting practices, improved controls and auditability, enhanced reporting quality and timeliness)
• Maintains the Financial modules business capability requirements (what/why) and business value ranking to inform ServiceNow/ADO backlog; ERP Product & Delivery team retains accountability for delivery sequencing within capacity and dependencies
• Defines measurable success metrics and partner on value realization reporting (cycle time, quality, adoption, compliance outcomes)

3) Business Requirements Intent, Acceptance Criteria Approval & Traceability

• Leads discovery with Finance/Operations stakeholders to capture business needs, pain points, and desired outcomes for Oracle Financials
• Drafts business requirements intent and business acceptance criteria, including controls/audit evidence needs, reporting impacts, and data integrity considerations
• Partners with IT ERP Product Support/Delivery teams who finalize the Functional Design Document (FDD); provide approval of business intent and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with IT ERP Product Analysts/Delivery teams who finalize the Technical Design Document (TDD) and that technical designs trace back to approved business requirement intent.

4) Demand Intake & Backlog Governance (ServiceNow → ADO)

• Serves as the business SME for Financial modules demand items in ServiceNow; ensure required intake fields are complete (i.e. outcomes, value driver, draft acceptance criteria, UAT owner, reporting impact)
• Collaborates with IT ERP Product Support/Management that a ServiceNow item has a linked ADO Epic/Feature and remains traceable through delivery and validation

5) Quarterly Release Governance — Business Readiness (Oracle cadence)

• Financially modules business impact assessment for quarterly Oracle releases and firm-led changes (process impacts, training/comms needs, reporting impacts, Finance compliance considerations)
• Coordinates validation/UAT approach for Financial modules in partnership with FS PM & IT ERP Product Ma