Cost Analyst

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, finance, or accounting is preferred though work

experience in these fields can be substituted for the educational requirement.

IT COST ANALYST (Business Analyst)

Experience

Candidate must have a minimum of 5 years' experience working in cost accounting or project

costing OR experience working as a business analyst supporting the cost accounting functions of

an organization.

7 Primary Job Duties/ Tasks

The submitted candidate must be able to perform the following duties and/or

tasks. Duties of the selected candidate will include, but not be limited to:

1. Participate in efforts to define the impact on Department computing assets from the

implementation of Florida PALM standard business process model, chart of accounts,

and PeopleSoft solution. Produce deliverables including, but not limited to business

process diagrams and narratives, business requirements, program specifications, and

supporting business processes, data conversion, technical impact analyses, and testing

scripts.

2. Use subject matter expertise, industry methodologies and best practices, and

automated tools to analyze and make recommendations on behalf of the

Department for required changes to complex financial-related business processes to

align with the Florida PALM solution.

3. Detail data element inputs and outputs for Department computing assets interfacing

with Department of Financial Services FLAIR. Inputs may include, but not limited to,

manual data entry, direct access via scripting solutions, and batch uploads. Outputs can

include data extracts, outgoing interfaces, and reports.

4. Prepare specifications to communicate Department specific functional requirements

for the FPST transition efforts and address dependencies with other interfacing

computing assets and external stakeholder interfaces. Oversee the development of

testing strategies, data scenarios, and test plans to ensure functional requirements

are addressed.

5. Assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed to support

ongoing FPST efforts in the enterprise environment.

6. Work with functional and enterprise system support staff during technical

assessments of the Department's internal financial-related systems

7. Document business cases and feasibility studies. Facilitate work sessions to elicit and

prioritize remediation requirements. Identify any functionality seen as needed, but

missing, in Department maintained systems. Include analysis of outstanding

remediation requests.

8. Translate high level business requirements into detailed business documents and/or

functional specifications.

9. Assist with User Acceptance Testing and cycle testing; Confer with

Central Office and District personnel to ensure Department financial-related

systems are performing as required.

10. Evaluate critical information gathered from multiple resources. Summarize

detailed data into executive level formats as well as breaking down aggregate

information into meaningful pieces.

11. Develop standardized desk procedures that include the purpose, prerequisites,

process flows and narratives of business processes.

12. Help manage user stories, the project backlog, and sprint backlogs.

13. Prepare proposed business rules, develop, monitor, and implement knowledge transfer

activities.

14. Participate in SCRUM meetings including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and sprint

retrospectives.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $1.00 - $2.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute:

• Tallahassee, FL 32308 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Tallahassee, FL 32308: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person