Senior Business Analyst, Finance Engineering
Job Description:
- Lead engagement with Finance and cross-functional stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, business processes, and system challenges, translating them into scalable IT-enabled solutions across the Finance systems landscape
- Independently drive end-to-end business analysis activities across initiatives, including requirement gathering, analysis, documentation of clear system requirements for delivery by IT teams, validation, prioritisation, and traceability across complex initiatives
- Act as a trusted advisor and one of the key interfaces between Business and IT, ensuring clarity of requirements, strong documentation, alignment of expectations, and informed decision-making throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Own the design, testing, and rollout of system solutions, including Oracle E-Business Suite (R12) and custom-developed/bespoke solutions, providing functional expertise across Finance modules (such as AP, AR, GL, and Cash Management) to ensure solutions align with business processes and control requirements
- Own the successful delivery of system enhancements and initiatives, proactively managing scope, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment to ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions
- Lead and coordinate activities within the IT Global Quarterly Release process, ensuring readiness, quality validation, impact assessment, and smooth deployment of enhancements
- Evaluate alternative solution designs and re-engineered processes, providing recommendations based on solution feasibility, operational effectiveness, financial controls, and long-term scalability
- Identify and drive process optimisation and standardisation opportunities across Finance systems and workflows
- Ensure SOX and governance compliance by ensuring all system changes adhere to defined governance, documentation, and approval processes
- Partner with offshore delivery and support teams to ensure high service quality, effective issue resolution, and continuous operational stability
- Provide guidance and mentorship to team members, promoting best practices in requirements management and stakeholder engagement
Requirements:
- Minimum of 7+ years of relevant experience, including 3+ years as a Senior Business Analyst, with significant experience leading Oracle Finance implementations, enhancements, or transformation initiatives
- Strong understanding of Finance business processes, with demonstrable experience in analysing processes and recommending practical improvements
- Strong functional expertise and hands-on experience with Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Finance modules, including Purchasing, iProcurement, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Cash Management, and General Ledger
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, large-scale, cross-functional, multi-regional Finance IT initiatives, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across Business, IT, and external teams
- Strong experience driving end-to-end requirements lifecycle management, including requirement gathering, analysis, documentation, validation, and translating requirements into clear system specifications
- Ability to translate Finance process requirements into Oracle ERP functional behaviour, including understanding upstream/downstream process impact across Finance modules
- Experience leading UAT planning, validation strategies, and release readiness activities
- Proven experience delivering and supporting integrations between Oracle Financial modules and third-party systems
- Ability to assess system designs, challenge assumptions, and provide structured recommendations balancing business and technical considerations
- Demonstrated ability to drive measurable improvements in Finance systems or processes (e.g., process efficiency, control improvements, automation, reporting accuracy, or user experience)
- Experience of operating within SOX-controlled or regulated environments, with strong governance discipline
- Experience working effectively with offshore or near-shore delivery and support teams
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to articulate and document complex Finance and system concepts clearly for diverse audiences
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
- Relocation assistance if required to move geographic locations for the job
