Business Systems Analyst (Business Finance & Planning)

About the Role

We are looking for a Business System Analyst (BSA) to join our WOW Finance team. In this role, you will be working closely with our Finance teams to drive process and system improvements that will help enable the finance organization and drive scale. This role will provide technical mentorship, be hands on, respond to reporting / analytics requests, provide project management, build and manage various integrations, and work independently but closely with the functional financial business partners.

The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) will participate in analyzing business problems and recommending solutions that improve automation and efficiency. This will involve evaluating and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet the strategic needs of the business. The BSA will be responsible for ensuring successful maintenance and configuration of new Workday solutions, including redesigning existing features, while also understanding and recommending the optimized approach for implementing new features.

Responsibilities :

Work closely with business partners to understand business processes, goals and gaps

Drive the planning, prioritization, design, development and deployment of new projects & system improvements

Responsible for understanding business requirements, configuring the Workday Financials product and documenting, as needed

Leverage business knowledge and expertise to find opportunities for process improvements

Participate in the change management and launch support processes of any new and modification of existing configuration

Facilitate review sessions with functional owners, domain experts and end-user representatives

Coordinate and perform system testing to ensure requirements are met

Assist project team during user acceptance testing (UAT); including tracking issues through to resolution and securing end user acceptance signoff

About You

Basic Qualifications :

5+ years of directly related experience working with Workday financial operation in IT, financials operations, or implementing / administering the Workday Financial application.

3+ years of experience with Record to Report business processes and their inter-dependencies – especially Business Finance & Planning / Forecasting

Other Qualifications :

• Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning module .
• Ability to help define team processes, make recommendations regarding areas of improvement.

Experience detailing and analyzing processes, procedures, and / or policies.

Experience with Agile / Scrum methodologies, is a plus

Ability to learn and adopt new technologies, applications, and solutions. Ability to take takeaways and share with others to improve the overall skill of the team.

Ability to understand common issues and mentor others to drive work down to the most appropriate level of support.

Self-motivated, flexible, teammate with validated multi-tasking, time management & organization

Interpersonal, teamwork, analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Previous consulting experience either as a consultant with a consulting company or an internal consultant, is a plus

Workday Finance experience is preferred.