Financial Systems Senior Analyst II (OneStream) at BDO USA

Financial Systems Senior Analyst II

The Financial Systems (FS) Senior Analyst II is responsible for mapping business requirements to application functionality and capabilities, driving and leading continuous improvement, creating business cases that result in leading system configuration meetings independently and fully understanding the impact to the organization based on business processes, financial and data management knowledge. This role also analyzes complex business and system issues, resulting in a successful resolution.

The FS Senior Analyst II applies business acumen to obtain new and changing system business requirements from the business field. This role applies thoughts in a positive, energetic and agile manner when implementing new applications and systems, and successfully promotes an environment focused on business user's knowledge growth and independence.

The FS Senior Analyst II drives collaboration with the business and resolution of inquiries from the business. This role responds timely and provides accurate and thorough answers to business inquiries.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing financial systems and data support based on the alignment of business processes within the financial systems platform
• Assisting the business with performing queries and defining report requirements in an efficient manner for analysis and distribution to practice managers
• Communicating effectively with business users/owners, and proactively contributing ideas and proposing solutions to the business and financial systems team
• Updating systems inquiries accurately, from the business and internal team members, and in a timely and effective manner
• Developing solutions for financial systems data analysis to manage the business or support resolution of end user inquiries, including proper data extraction, storage, manipulation, processing and communicating
• Performing functional research or data mining to assist business owners in the pursuit of identifying key performance measures and indicators that drive reporting and analytics to manage the business, as needed
• Assisting workstream business owners in the development of test scripts, policies and procedures
• Performing financial system configurations independently to meet business requirements as defined by the business or for maintenance
• Identifying and interpreting trends and patterns in support issues and financial data, and proactively recommending actions and solutions
• Participating in cross functional teams to identify business risks and create analytics and dashboards to improve business processes
• Executing financial systems activities, as defined in the project plan and milestone assignments
• Leading the planning phase proactively, as needed
• Collaborating and strategizing with IT, Financial Systems and business teams proactively to drive system efficiencies across the business
• Configuring and maintaining security of the financial system solution, and promptly responding to security inquires, including documenting security changes and corrective action taken within the inquiries
• Ensuring integrity and confidentiality of sensitive data when creating new security access configurations and granting access to users
• Engaging with management or Internal Audit to clarify security requests promptly
• Demonstrating understanding of business process workflows and how financial applications are used in support of those processes
• Identifying opportunities to improve or gain efficiencies within the financial systems or business processes, including creating and maintaining reporting tools and templates to facilitate the production of financial reports and dashboards
• Contributing to defining, planning, coordinating and executing financial systems updates and growth of end users' knowledge consistently
• Participating in the internal audit of financial systems procedures, presenting the audit with evidence of executed systems processes and reports (in a clear, accurate and concise manner) in compliance of defined controls
• Participating in cross-functional financial systems teams to directly support the business, financial systems and create analytics and dashboards
• Supporting and participating with team members when trends or problem resolutions indicate systems issues, necessitating future trainings or procedural issues needing resolution as identified by the team analyst or the business
• Developing and maintaining appropriate FAQ documents to support resolution of end-user inquires and questions received by the IT Service Desk
• Performing queries of financial database based on internal/external requests, and providing data reports of financial information
• Providing support to team members to ensure functional requirements are representing the need from the business
• Participating in optimizing the effectiveness of the financial systems through workflow analysis, data collection/reporting and creating technical reports (automated and on-demand)
• Collaborating with business owners to increase their utilization of financial systems by successfully mapping business requirements to financial system functionality and capabilities
• Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities include:

• Supervising the day-to-day work assignments of FS Analyst professionals, as needed
• Providing verbal and written performance feedback to FS Analyst professionals, as needed
• Acting as a mentor to FS Analyst professionals

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities include:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology or related field or equivalent work experience, required. Master's degree, preferred
• Experience: Seven (7) or more years of experience working with financial systems, required with a degree. Eleven (11) or more years of experience working with financial systems, required without a degree. Experience working within a professional services firm such as accounting, financial services, business advisory and/or banking industries, preferred
• License/Certifications: N/A
• Software: Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, required. Proficient in the use of PeopleSoft Financials, specifically query and reporting functions, preferred. Proficient in the use of Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (i.e. OneStream, Hyperion, COGNOS, Business Objects), preferred
• Language: N/A
• Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Superior verbal and written communication skills. Good technical and data analysis skills. Capable of working and communicating effectively with professionals at all levels. Able to work in a deadline-driven environment, and handle multiple projects/tasks with an attention to detail. Able to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment. Superior analytical and diagnostic skills, with the ability to apply analysis in determining appropriate next steps. Excellent computer skills with the aptitude to learn new software applications. Superior customer service skills. Positive attitude and willingness to learn. Strong interest in accounting, finance and systems

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

National Range: $100,000 - $120,000

Maryland Range: $100,000 - $120,000

NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $100,000 - $120,000