Project Business Analyst, Finance Business Operations

Department: Finance

Location: EMEA-Israel

Description

This position is responsible for providing analytical support to the Finance Business Operations team in the development of end-to-end finance process and system solutions. Assist the team in delivering the finance requirements for multiple strategic and functional projects. Collaborate with various cross functional teams such as finance, IT and marketing to ensure project’s solution is in line with corporate standards. Lastly provide testing support and documentation to the finance group, internal audit and/or external accountants and follow up on post-implementation issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate the gathering of requirements by working with the finance group to understand their business and technical needs
• Develop a strong understanding of underlying internal software systems and their inter-dependencies
• Resolve ambiguities, inconsistencies and conflicting business and technical requirements to build consensus and drive to agreed-upon solutions.
• Facilitate communication with developers to ensure that the business requirements are translated to design specifications and appropriate testing efforts.
• Create test scenarios and test cases to validate the new system requirements, data conversions, workflows and end-user procedures are working appropriately and/or other unaffected areas remain unchanged.
• Analyze test results to determine data integrity, system issues or reporting issues.
• Troubleshoot any issues by engaging IT or other subject matter experts.
• Proactively communicate project status to Project Manager, Finance Business Operations and finance team members, as appropriate.
• Ensure new or changed finance processes are documented, tested and are appropriately transitioned to existing finance personnel.
  
  

• BA/MA in Accounting or equivalent
• 5+ years of accounting experience required
• Experience with functional accounting processes (especially GL, AR or Tax)
• Experience in business analysis, testing and project management
• Experience in cross functional projects, such as an implementation of changes in ERP systems
• 3+ years hands-on experience with SAP FI
• 2+ years of project management experience (as an Expert, Business Analyst or tester)
• Understanding of US GAAP, IFRS and SOX standards and controls
• Excellent English verbal and written communication- ability to document business analysis content and interact directly with stakeholders