What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Program Analyst, Financial Systems & Processes (Finance and Records) position at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Job Description
Finance employees receive, account for, monitor, and design internal controls to safeguard sacred funds for the Church's religious mission. Individuals are responsible for research and analysis of basic and complex issues surrounding financial systems and their related processes. Will be required to gain understanding of current financial processes and help implement those processes in a new global financial system. Once the new system is implemented, this position will become part of the core group of Subject Matters Experts that will support this system for our financial users.
Responsibilities
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
Finance employees receive, account for, monitor, and design internal controls to safeguard sacred funds for the Church's religious mission. Individuals are responsible for research and analysis of basic and complex issues surrounding financial systems and their related processes. Will be required to gain understanding of current financial processes and help implement those processes in a new global financial system. Once the new system is implemented, this position will become part of the core group of Subject Matters Experts that will support this system for our financial users.
Responsibilities
- This position will be heavily involved in learning, configuring, and helping to implement the new global finance system being implemented at the Church.
- Helps with analysis and cost/benefit decisions involving new financial systems or enhancements to existing systems.
- Manages User Acceptance Testing (UAT), communication plans, training plans and implementations to end users.
- Will also help with the maintenance, upgrades, and support of the current PeopleSoft ERP until it is decommissioned.
- Bachelor's degree in business management, accounting, finance, or related field. CPA, CMA, MBA preferred. A best-fit candidate would have a strong background in accounting or finance who also enjoys working with financial systems.
- Must have 6 years of related professional work experience with preference of 4 of those years in financial management or leadership role with responsibilities in business systems development of product and/or project management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to negotiate and positively influence people at all levels of the organization.
- Strong, broad finance and technical background required. Ability to think critically and communicate complex business problems, solutions and systems strategies to business owners, stakeholders, and technical partners.
- Solid knowledge of financial standards, local rules/practices. Requires a good understanding of both US and international accounting and privacy principles/laws.
- Experience with global ERP systems, project planning, organizing, communicating, team motivation and delegating skills (working knowledge of PeopleSoft, Oracle, MS SQL, PowerBI, MS Office preferred).
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
