What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior / Principal Business Systems Analyst-Functional position at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory?
We are not seeking technical professionals, such as IT programmers and Software Engineers, who do not possess hands-on experience in business, finance, and accounting.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), The Office of the CFO (OCFO) has a full-time career opportunity for a Business Systems Analyst-Functional. Reporting to the Manager of Business Systems Analysis and working closely with functional users and IT developers, this position will independently address and resolve business and technology problems of diverse scope related to Lab's PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain applications and related processes,preferably in "Procure to Pay' lifecycle (Procurement, Receiving, Accounts Payable, Project Costing and General Ledger) and Travel & Expense. This position will contribute to and / or lead system implementations, enhancements, upgrades and user support.
As a Senior Analyst in our Business Systems Analysis team, working under broad, general direction, this position contributes to OCFO Business Systems initiatives and problems of diverse complexity and scope. This position is a key contributor to systems enhancement and maintenance tasks like troubleshooting system problems, testing fixes, responding to help desk tickets, and assisting users with complex query and data analysis issues, makes contributions that are critical to successful business operations, and may coordinate activities of other cross functional team members. This position uses and applies business principles and concepts along with knowledge of technology to troubleshoot and make recommendations for solving business process and technology issues, and exercises judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting creative methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. This position takes initiative in solving complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. This position acts as a key point of contact and liaison between the functional system users and IT software engineers in troubleshooting and resolving systems problems, and providing status updates to stakeholders
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Project participation : As a member of project teams, execute components of complex business systems projects. Contribute to the definition of purpose, scope, deliverables, and timelines. Provide regular progress updates to the project team. Contribute to the development and execution of test cases and scripts
- Implementations, Upgrades and Enhancements : Prepare, coordinate and execute test plans to validate system changes and communicate the results of testing including required corrective actions to the system owner and IT group as appropriate. Contribute to the reconciliation, validation and acceptance of transactional data conversions during system upgrades and new system implementations
- Production Support : Troubleshoot system problems of diverse complexity and scope. Review and respond to OCFO systems Help Desk tickets created by system users. Coordinate activities with other business systems analysts, functional users and IT software engineers to analyze, test and resolve issues. Monitor scheduled batch processes, review warning notifications and take corrective action where necessary. Assist users in building or troubleshooting complex queries. Contribute to on-going communication between system owners, IT and users on the status of system problems and requests. Provide business systems support to key business processes including monthly and annual fiscal closes
- User profiles and system access : Take a lead role in conducting periodic system access reviews to validate user role assignments for OCFO systems. Provide primary support in maintaining user profiles including account reactivation, updating access role assignments etc. in line with the established system security policy and protocols
In addition to the above, as a Principal Business Systems Analysts this position will work under minimal direction and be a significant contributor for developing solutions to highly complex business and related technology problems. This position will manage and / or lead project teams, oversee the timely execution and completion of business systems projects including process analysis and automation, requirements validation, defining project scope, deliverables, and timelines, and provide senior management regular updates on project status, issues and risks / mitigations.
Additional Duties & Responsibilities for a Principal Analyst
Position Requirements for a Senior Analyst
Required
In addition to the above, a Principal Business Systems Analyst will be expected to have a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience and Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field; or 8 years of relevant experience and Master's degree in Accounting or related field; or equivalent experience and the following experience, knowledge, skills and abilities
Preferred
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Salary : $146,189 - $162,432