Senior Business Systems Analyst (EPM ARCS)

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operatingover 260 data centers across the globe.Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.

Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providingan equitable work environmentthat is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary

As Senior Business Analyst in the Corporate application division, you would be working on some of our latest ventures to Support and Enhance cutting-edge SaaS business applications. You will be helping us with coordination, documentation, test execution, conducting POC, post-production maintenance, and support of the Oracle Cloud SaaS enterprise application production support and continuous improvement of the application landscape.

This position acts as a critical liaison between the company’s financial functions including Corporate Controllership, Regional Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, Tax, and Business Assurance, and the company’s IT organization.

Responsibilities

Business Support

Provides first-line support to users of financial applications.

Responding to business user queries

Providing one-on-one support, explanations, and guidance to users regarding finance operations

Triaging data issues, process issues, and business user errors

Liaise with IT and business users to define and prioritize business-related issues associated with systems

Partner with other system owners to ensure data quality, timing, and financial reporting impacts are fully understood

Take the lead role in :

Assisting with the business case

Planning and monitoring

Eliciting requirements

Requirements organization

Translating and simplifying requirements

Requirements management and communication

Requirement analysis

Business Requirements 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 placing these within a broader context?

Understands business environment and helps to connect / align relevant business stakeholders

Stakeholder Management

Manages stakeholder expectations and communications within and beyond the functional track

Knows business environment well enough to identify and proactively include the correct stakeholder

Interacts regularly with senior management-level stakeholders and demonstrates value from realized projects

Solution Design

Responsible for designing and documenting cross-functional and global solutions, drawing on the 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 practice

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

Documentation

Documents and reviews broader team documentation

Supports the 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

Develop 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 signoffs with the cross-functional business and IT teams

Provides inputs into business processes based on design capabilities

Champions sustainable, forward-looking functional designs

Learn and adapt to new technologies in a short duration

Testing & Test Design

Execute System integration testing

Coordinate user acceptance testing for new systems or enhancement releases. This involves assistance with the creation of test cases and follow-up to ensure users complete testing per the schedule

Coordinates integration testing validates test cases with stakeholders for user acceptance testing and training and obtains signoffs

Coordinates defects clarification, triage, and coordinate resolution with engineering teams.

Performs Mock close on financial systems

System Configurations

Configures applications in line with business goals

Designs forward-looking configurations by recognizing future needs aligned with the business roadmap

Develop 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 the 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 assesses business case realization and proposes solutions to improve

Provides ad hoc training to various financial users on key financial applications

Qualifications

Worked as Senior Systems Analyst, Senior Consultant, or Support Analyst for Oracle Fusion EPM and ERP application modules

Hands-on experience in configuring, scripting, and testing for EPM and ERP Cloud application implementation and maintenance

Years of knowledge in Planning, Budgeting, and forecasting modules

Worked in most of the Oracle fusion ERP Financial applications primarily in GL,AP and AR Reconcilation

Worked in most of the Oracle fusion EPM applications primarily on ARCS

Worked with an onshore delivery leads and support team

Have in-depth finance functional knowledge to understand business requirements and convert them into technical solutions

Good analytical and problem-solving ability

Flexible to work on a rotating shift model to support EMEA and AMER timezone customers

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, IT, or a related field

9+ years of experience working within the finance or IT organization of a large multinational company

Worked in rotating shift model to support EMEA and AMER timezone customers

Strong written and oral communication skills

Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities

Willingness to travel occasionally if needed.

Preference to computer science, mathematics, Accounting, and related fields of study

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