Financial Business Analyst

Financial Business Analyst

Position Overview:

The Financial Business Analyst will elicit, analyze, specify, and validate business needs of stakeholders, including customers and end users. The role involves gathering and compiling user requirements to understand the technology solutions required and applying proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to ensure informed decision-making. The Financial Business Analyst will stay proactive in following emerging technology trends and identifying new technologies to optimize business processes. They will play a critical role in ensuring IT understands and meets business requirements.

What We Offer:

• Faith and purpose-based career opportunity.
• Fully paid health benefits.
• Retirement and Life Insurance.
• 12 paid holidays plus birthday.
• Daily lunch provided.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Paid training.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Functional process expertise in Finance and/or Accounting systems and processes.
• Proven experience in business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development.
• Experience in overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products.
• Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language.
• Exceptional analytical and statistical skills to address systems issues and product needs.
• Strong project management skills and proficiency with project management software, including planning, organizing, and managing resources.
• Understanding of application development and the software development life cycle.
• Ability to influence teams to meet key milestones and overcome challenges.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team or as an independent contributor.

Preferred Experience:

• Professional certifications from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).
• Accounting Practitioner experience.
• Experience in the Healthcare industry.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Familiarity with Monday Project Management Platform.
• Experience with Sage Intacct Accounting Software.

Responsibilities:

Strategy & Planning

• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Identify project stakeholders, user classes, and their characteristics.
• Conduct interviews, workshops, surveys, and other methods to gather user requirements.
• Define the scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis, including project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Work with stakeholders and the project team to prioritize requirements.
• Review and analyze existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for improvements.

Acquisition & Deployment

• Assist in research and evaluation of software and hardware solutions to meet agreed-upon requirements.
• Participate in QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions are enabled and optimized.
• Contribute to the selection of requirements documentation software.

Operational Management

• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Use standard templates to write clear, concise requirements specifications.
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements understandable by developers and the project team.
• Develop prototypes for interfaces and attributes based on user requirements, when applicable.
• Create process models, specifications, and diagrams to guide developers and the project team.
• Conduct peer reviews to ensure business requirements are correctly interpreted.
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle and adjust as needed.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications to project managers, sponsors, and stakeholders.
• Serve as the department’s Solution(s) configuration subject matter expert (SME).