Sr Financial Systems Analyst

1872 Consulting; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is looking for a Senior Financial Systems Analyst to optimize its finance, accounting, and tax systems. The ideal candidate will collaborate with stakeholders, manage product lifecycles, and enhance reporting capabilities. Candidates should have extensive experience in financial systems, SQL proficiency, and a strong ability to gather requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Financial Systems Analyst or similar role.
• Strong SQL query writing skills.
• Experience with accounting systems and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to gather requirements and create project roadmaps.
• Collaborate with the BI Team for reporting needs and application support.
• Manage product lifecycle and maintain user access rights.

Skills

Financial system optimization

SQL

Excel

Requirements gathering

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or IT

Tools

API integrations

Application Testing

Diagraming tools

Job description

Sr Financial Systems Analyst
Chicago, IL – onsite 3 days/week in the loop, work from home (WFH) 2 days/week
Summary:

This position is focused on optimizing our enterprise finance, accounting and tax systems, in a techno-functional capacity.

We are looking for a Sr FSA who has a keen understanding of how to drive financial system optimization, through collaborating with business stakeholders, gathering requirements, designing technical solutions and workflows to meet these requirements, and partnering with vendors and internal engineers to ensure solution delivery. As such, we're looking for someone who has a keen understanding of best practices to drive the SDLC forward.

We're also looking for someone who is proficient with SQL, and is comfortable porting data from Excel into enterprise databases. Any reporting experience would be a nice to have.

This person will also be driving application integrations in addition to testing applications, prior to coordinating the release of new features, so any application integration or testing experience is a nice to have.

Experience working with financial systems vendors is also a key responsibility, that we need this person to be comfortable driving forward.

You will be supporting about 20-25 applications, with about 40-50 stakeholders.

If this sounds like you, please apply today!

What you'll be doing

• Partner with business stakeholders and gather business requirements to understand and prioritize their needs, define the goals and objectives, and create a roadmap of projects for their assigned area.
• Transform and analyze business user needs into the necessary documentation (requirements, use cases, traceability matrix, design documentation, test scripts, etc.).
• Seek input of user experience and document current procedures and processes to determine potential improvements to their assigned products.
• Collaborate with the BI Team to analyze business process, matching with appropriate and available technical solutions, and support development and delivery of requested reporting output.
• Assist users with service requests, such as data uploads, simple data queries, resolve production system issues, etc.
• Answer an array of specific "How-To” questions related to applications in portfolio.
• Manage the lifecycle of their assigned products and applications, from inception to implementation, throughout production until retirement/upgrade.
• Create tickets with vendors and track the ticketing process through resolution.
• Perform new user setups, including creating user accounts and configuring appropriate security permissions and access levels; also includes modifying existing users based on role changes, user deactivation and terminations – for assigned applications.
• Perform regular reviews, reconciliations, and audits of user lists and access rights/roles to identify necessary edits are made to maintain highest level of adherence to security model governance.

Skills we're seeking

• 5+ years of experience as a Financial Systems Analyst, or a similar techno-functional driving financial system optimization
• Must have experience working with accounting systems
• Must have the ability to write SQL queries, that are moderate in complexity
• Must be strong with Excel
• Must have experience gathering requirements from business stakeholders, and driving solutions to improve financial systems with cross functional teams

Nice to haves

• Bachelor's Degree, ideally in Finance, Accounting or an IT related field
• Experience with software integrations through APIs
• Experience with Application Testing
• Experience with Reporting
• Experience with SQL database administration
• Experience with wireframing, and creating complex workflows with diagraming tools
• Experience working with systems that have a global reach