Analyst - Finance System

Finance System Analyst

Candidate must be an excellent analytical thinker and problem solvers, as well as an effective communicator. Highly motivated, able to multi-task, and possess a solid work ethic with commitment to task completion in a timely manner. Candidate responsibilities include:

- Ability to identify technology needs, including opportunities for process improvements, automation, and application of best practices.

- Act as project manager for assigned technology projects, including managing project activities, budgets, deliverables and timelines. Operate with the objective of executing projects to meet the required standard of quality; ensuring business success; and ensuring professional stakeholder management

- Develop and maintain relationships with vendors and various departments within the firm including DT and Finance

- Monitor critical applications and provide system-level support of infrastructure and systems, including installation, configuration, monitoring, maintenance, and support of these systems. Create and/or maintain detailed standard work and systems documentation

- Analyze system issues, develop technical solutions and document issue-resolution knowledge base.

- Upgrade systems and their underlying technology to keep current with industry. Conduct technical research to determine feasibility, cost, time required, and compatibility with current system.

- Assists with the planning, coordination and development of Qlik dashboards

- Support internal and external audits

- Coordinate change-control activity as required (e.g., new releases, software updates and configuration changes), as well as testing and deployment of applications

- Lead the implementation of new technology solutions while adhering to security standards. Gather requirements, write design specifications, configure systems, coordinate the testing activities and implement the solution in production.

Education/Certifications :

- Undergraduate degree in information technology, computer science, management of information systems (MIS) or related field.

Basic Qualifications :

- Five-plus years of experience working with application support and infrastructure components and services

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - ability to quickly diagnose and remediate service issues

- A demonstrated customer focus, with the ability to evaluate decisions through the eyes of the customer and build strong relationships

- Understanding of compliance and controls - support internal and external audits

- Demonstrated success working in a cross-geography environment, in virtual teams and on time bound-deliverables (both activities and projects)

- Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate in a clear and succinct manner

- A passion for current and emerging technologies demonstrated through training, job experience and/or industry activities

- Results-oriented with strong work ethic

Preferred Qualifications :

- Strong experience with as many of the following technologies as possible: Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, SharePoint, Tidal, .Net and IIS.

- Blackline, Archer, JD Edwards and/or Sabrix experience are a plus

- Knowledge of cloud services (e.g., Azure) and data analytics tools (Qlik Sense or Power BI) preferred

- Programming and/or debugging experience is a plus.