State Street - AVP - Business Analysis

Functional Job Title : Oracle Business Analyst (BA) - AVP (12 - 15 years)

Reports to : VP, Finance

Department/ Division : Finance

Basic Purpose of Job:

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on State Street to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. The Business Analyst - AVP would be supporting multiple high priority, finance driven (driven by U.S. and European Regulators), complex, global and cross-organizational initiatives to meet various functional requirements. The Business Analyst - AVP will work with numerous functions within State Street to help drive activities to produce and update documentation of internal processes, data controls, periodic testing and validation of controls.

Responsibilities & Tasks Include:

- Subject matter expertise on accounting domain: General Ledger, Sub Ledger etc

- Partner with finance and IT to gather business requirement, create requirement documents, create and execute UAT test scripts

- Represent the functional needs of Finance ensuring business needs are planned into the future solution

- Develop Business Process flows and procedures required to operate the solution in partnership with finance

- Understand the data elements associated with general/sub ledgers

- Data conversion mapping and testing. Assist business with production deployment.

- Drive design sessions with the implementation team to define the solution

- Able to conduct ad-hoc analysis as requested by finance user group

- Engage with training team to support training plan and delivery

- Customer focused, team driven mentality; serving as role model for colleagues, coaching and motivating team members to make needed adjustments in plans to meet milestones and to achieve goals.

Job Requirements:

Education and Experience

- 12 - 15 years of overall experience Managing oracle finance projects.

- Detailed knowledge of Oracle EBS 11i and R12. Well versed in oracle finance terminology and methodology

- Experience of writing detailed business solutions, specifications and data mapping and conversions

- Experience working with business process owners and end-users to establish sufficient levels of detailed requirements as well as creating test plans

- Experience with Oracle Discoverer, standard reporting modules, and using Oracle's BI tools

- Minimum Bachelor degree in Science/Finance/Engineering.

- Understanding of finance and accounting business functions.

- Ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects, activities and tasks under time constraints.

- Strong ability to quickly learn new BI tools and data sources. Spotfire, Cognos experience is a plus

- Meticulous attention to detail, placing high value on accuracy; diligent about upholding control points and procedures in the Software development lifecycle

Skills/ Knowledge

- Detail Knowledge of accounting concepts

- Understanding of multi currency accounting, fixed assets processing, accounts receivable processing. subledger operational processing.

- Oracle Modules: Oracle Financials including Cash Management (CM), Fixed Assets, Payables (AP), General Ledger (GL), iExpense, and Accounts Receivable (AR), E-Tax, Approvals Management (AME)

- Kofax MarkView or similar imaging and scanning solutions, Work Flow

- Experience with with Oracle Discoverer, standard reporting modules, and using Oracle's BI tools

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, Visio) PL/SQL, toad

- Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills and to liaise with and influence senior subject matter experts

- Ability to work on subledger conversions and reconcilements

- Flexible, able to adapt to changing priorities in an Agile and informal setting.