Sr Manager, Business Systems Analyst - Oracle Financial - Purchase to Pay

The business system analyst will be responsible for interacting with the Finance group in GAP to understand their business goals and develop information technology applications/solutions to enable the business goals. The job also includes collaborating with cross functional groups to implement enterprise wide solutions. Interacting with the business, documenting the requirements, translating those to the IT development team to enable software build and working with the users on designing acceptance test cases and rolling out the applications are all part of the job role. A strong understanding of business processes and knowledge of enterprise applications and technologies is required for this position.

Serves as Leader/Manager of assigned projects/Resources and serves as subject matter expert.

Strong people management skills. Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements using interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, tasks and workflow analysis.

Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.Serve as the conduit between the internal stakeholder community and the Finance team, both business systems and infrastructure/operations, through which requirements flow.Work independently with internal and external stakeholders to define concepts and under direction of Director of Oracle Financials. Proactively recommend business process and performance improvements based on new features/functions delivered in new versions of third-party software. Work with business partners to define, analyze and document requirements for enhancements, as well as identify opportunities for new/improved processes.Lead the process and people to implement system changes, including the coordination of cross-functional business resources, testing, training, communication, implementation, and documentation. Collaborate with business partners to prioritize requests for change. Follow best business practices to set and communicate expectations with business and IT.

Ability to develop and deliver communications (both oral and written) that have clarity and impact.

Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with customers and is dedicated to meeting customer expectations and requirements.

Ability to use rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.

Ability to negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups, and can win concessions without damaging relationships. 

10+ years IT business or systems analysis experience.

BS/BA in Business Admin Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems and/or equivalent formal training or experience

Configuring Oracle Release 12 Finance for defined business processes.

Experience in Finance business process and supporting 3rd party technologies.

Ability to use innovative problem-solving approaches to proactively tackle a broad range of problems, regardless of the technologies, and develop appropriate recommendations.

Ability to create and deliver presentations to educate/influence business partners on IT strategy.

Ability to identify strategic and tactical changes to enable customer to leverage available technologies appropriately (e.g. develops a clear business case).

Ability to identify cause/effect relationships and addresses root causes of problems wherever they exist.

Ability to apply cost/risk/benefit principles in advocating for best approaches to process improvement for business partners (e.g., technical and non-technical).

Ability to apply an in-depth understanding of business processes to define potential improvement strategies for Enterprise IT to implement.