Business Analyst, Global Finance Ops Reporting & Analytics

Provides programs to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and compliance in support of the organization's financial and tactical business objectives. Provides business practices and processes. Develops, communicates, and trains the organization on business practices and processes.

Serve as a liaison with other divisions such as Finance, Contracts, HR, Legal, Shared Services, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing, and Risk Management in an effort to ensure accurate and timely transaction processing. Collect, input, verify, correct, and analyze data to measure key performance indicator actual versus business objectives. Provide updates to management regarding budget to actual, informing them of deviations and opportunities. Provide management with economic impact and compliance issues surrounding key business decisions and/or deals. Communicate Oracle Business Practices to the organization and monitor process and approvals for full compliance. Drive implementation of new processes and procedures.

Job duties are varied and complex utilizing independent judgment. May have project lead role. Attention to detail critical. Ability to collect, organize, and display data in spreadsheet format. Follow-through skills necessary to get information from internal and third parties and have data errors/omissions corrected. For this, relationship management skills strongly desired. Strong written and verbal communication skills to interact with management and possible clients desired. 5 plus years relevant work experience.

Career Level - IC3

Knowledge and Experience Essential

• Strong understanding of Data, Analytics & Reporting principles, cutting-edge technologies, best practices and market trends.
• Ability to distill customer requests and market needs into an innovative product vision, roadmap and set of themes
• Work with globally distributed, remote, and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to distill customer data and present insights as clear and useful business information
• Familiarity with Agile approaches, design, engineering and testing methodologies
• Ability to proactively engage in continuous process improvement
• Structured problem solving and facilitation approaches
• Ability to listen and communicate clearly with different areas of the business and customers
• Clarity of verbal and written communication to unambiguously define goals and plans
• Experience in B2B / Enterprise markets.
• Ability to manage multiple parallel initiatives and stakeholders
• Ability to work with User Experience teams, and have empathy for good design.
Ability to work with incomplete information, and comfortable with uncertainty

Qualifications & Previous Experience

• Candidate should have min of 7 to 10 years of overall work experience and at least 3-4 years of BI reporting & operations experience is must!
• Should have complete excel related knowledge such as doing complex look up functions; execution of macros to handle data blending options
• Should have experience is handling executive ops reporting tasks
• Should be able to perform additional detailing with raw data and come up with ; insights or telling story with data
• Should be aware of BI applications (such as Oracle 11g, Analytics Cloud, Apex)
• additional third party BI tools knowledge is an added advantage such as power BI, Alteryx, other data viz tools etc..
• Project management skills (skilled )
• UAT skills are added advantage (user acceptance testing)
• Should have strong verbal & written communication