What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Systems Analyst - Finance position at Harness.io?
San Francisco, California, United States
Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
Position Summary
This role is responsible for analyzing, designing, and implementing business systems and technology solutions to support the accounting functions. This role collaborates with key business stakeholders, IT teams, and cross-functional business units to enhance systems, improve reporting capabilities, and ensure system integrity. The ideal candidate will understand and own all accounting processes associated with quote to cash, procure to pay, as well as record to report functionality. You will provide structure and leadership to projects, provide guidance on best practices and standard functionality, process automation, and understand business requirements and translate needs into technical solutions.
About the role
- Partner with business stakeholders to analyze business processes and system needs.
- Manage and optimize key business applications, such Netsuite, Stripe, Expensify, Navan, Zip.
- Gather requirements, design solutions, and implement system enhancements to improve efficiency and scalability.
- Develop and maintain system integrations between platforms (e.g., Q2C, billing, P2P).
- Automate workflows to reduce manual effort and enhance data integrity.
- Conduct data analysis and generate reports to provide insights into system usage and business performance.
- Ensure data accuracy, governance, and compliance across business systems.
- Provide day-to-day administration and maintenance of critical business systems including NetSuite & Stripe.
- Triage and resolve production support issues and implementing enhancement requests.
- Train end users and create documentation to support adoption and best practices.
- Stay up-to-date on industry trends and emerging technologies to recommend improvements.
About you
- 5-8 years of experience in business systems analysis or other similar roles within a B2B SaaS organization.
- Strong functional and best practices knowledge in ERP, QTC, P2P and R2R space
- Experience with AR/GL/revenue accounting, order and contract management, billing, financial consolidation and reporting, and month/quarter/year end close.
- Prior experience with NetSuite and integration with CRM (Salesforce), NetSuite ARM, billing solutions (ex: Salesforce Billing, NetSuite or Zone Billing).
- Prior experience with Stripe or equivalent payment processing platforms.
- Strong understanding of system integrations and data workflows (e.g., APIs, middleware, ETL processes).
- Experience with process automation tools (e.g., Zapier, Workato, Tray.io) is a plus.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.
- Experience with SQL, reporting tools, or data visualization (Tableau, Looker) is a plus.
Work Location
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
What you will have at Harness
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Flexible work schedule
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
- Monthly internet reimbursement
Pay transparency
$109,000—$158,000 USD
Salary : $109,000 - $158,000
