Sr Business Systems Analyst

Apex Systems; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401K

ESPP

HSA

Certification prep

Job summary

Apex Systems is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join the Business Management Office within Technology. The role supports expense management, budgeting, and end-to-end spend workflows in a fast-paced technology environment.

4 days in-office (8-5 CT) with remote Fridays; preferred locations Columbus, OH or Dallas, TX. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of analysis experience in Finance and Operations, with strong communication and data skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; 4–8 years of related experience.
• Experience with budgeting and expense workflows.
• Ability to analyze data and report insights to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Support expense management and budgeting processes for Technology.
• Collaborate with Finance and Technology teams to align budgets with financials.
• Query data, validate data, and troubleshoot reporting anomalies.
• Lead meetings and updates for senior management and stakeholders.
• Create and improve reports and processes to increase efficiency.
• Navigate end-to-end approval to spend workflows and PO issuance.

Skills

Budgeting

Expense management

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

MS Office

Excel

Visio

PowerPoint

Job description

Senior Business Analyst – Business Management Office within Technology

Job#: 3048123

4 days in-office 8-5 pm CT, prefer Columbus or Dallas; remote Fridays

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our Business Management Office ("BMO") within the Office of the CIO. The BMO currently supports certain verticals within Technology, but over time, will support all verticals to provide the CIO with a full landscape of the business operations of Technology. As the BMO grows to support all of technology, existing processes and reporting must be improved upon and automated to scale and be repeatable, where able. The BMO seeks to hire this critical role to reinforce the existing team with both leadership and delivery of existing and routine deliverables while also looking for efficiency gains to scale. The ideal candidate will have at least 8 years of experience with analysis in both Finance and Operations, preferably within a financial services organization or within a technology line of business supporting a financial services enterprise. This individual will work closely with Technology teams and stakeholder groups like Finance and Accounts Payable, among others. The main responsibility of this team player will be to process day-to-day spend requests, issue POs, and generally navigate the end-to-end approval to spend workflow in support of critical Technology efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• Support business analysis efforts for Technology, specifically expense management and budgeting.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Finance and Technology teams) to review new budget and approval to spend requests, to ensure alignment to existing financials.
• Ability to query data, perform data validation, and troubleshoot reporting anomalies.
• Act as a point of contact for the BMO, ensuring excellent customer service to internal stakeholders while balancing efficiency.
• Update budget items throughout the year; able to analyze and understand changes and impacts based on movement in the budget.
• Able to create, understand, and analyze moderately complex reports.
• Able to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment while understanding the underlying risks to help re-prioritize work.
• Able to offer guidance and best practices while collaborating; requires strong executive presence.
• Facilitate meetings, presentations, and updates for senior management and other key stakeholders. Able to lead by influencing these stakeholder groups.
• Able to create new business processes and continuously improve existing processes, reports, and methodologies to increase efficiency and quality of deliverables.
• Ability to be detail-oriented but also understand and communicate the key messages to various Technology leaders.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 4 to 8 years of related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to present complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders; ability to draw out key messages from the data while tying the data back to business needs of the Technology team – identifying the ‘so what’.
• Strong data analysis experience and knowledge of expense management and budgeting processes.
• Critical thinker with strong organizational skills and detail-oriented with focus on quality and accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple efforts concurrently while ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and work independently.
• MS Office experience with Excel, Visio, PowerPoint.
• Demonstrable technical skills and ability to learn technology verbiage.
• Experience tracking and driving deliverables to completion
• Preferably local to Columbus, OH or Dallas, TX.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.
• ESPP (employee stock purchase program)
• 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan)
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions
• corporate discount savings program and other discounts
• on-demand training program
• certification prep
• a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure
• certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.
• dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.