What You Will Do:
- Business Data Analysis: Collect, identify, analyze and interpret Finance and Accounting data using various kinds of techniques to meet business needs and requirements
- Requirement Gathering: Elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements
- Process Improvement: Deliver lean projects to further improve the efficiency of Global Finance program management reporting processes by utilizing digital tools.
- Product Vision and Roadmap: Define and communicate the product vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs.
- Backlog Management: Prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring that the most valuable features are developed first.
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as a bridge between stakeholders and the development team, gathering and interpreting requirements.
- User-Centered Design: Implement user-centered design methodologies to enhance user satisfaction and product usability.
- Performance Tracking: Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and use analytics to inform product decisions and improvements.
- Agile Practices: Work within agile frameworks, facilitating smooth and efficient development cycles.
- Project Planning: Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in alignment with business objectives.
- Team Leadership: Champion and support a collaborative and high-performance work environment. Resolve conflicts and ensure alignment with project goals.
What You Have:
- Finance and Accounting Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
- Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
- Business Process Design: Knowledge of business process design in Finance and Accounting domain; ability to develop appropriate techniques to re-examine key processes and focus on optimizing organizational performance.
- Data Analysis and Interpretation: Experience in SQL to analyze and interpret complex data sets to provide actionable insights that support business decisions.
- Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- Effective Communications and Collaboration: Understanding effective communication and collaboration concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
- Software Change Request Management: Knowledge of software change request management; ability to manage software change requests from customers, prospective customers, vendors, and internal staff.
- Software Engineering: Knowledge of software engineering
- Software Problem Management: Knowledge of strategies, practices and tools for resolving software problems; ability to manage software problems in installed software products.
- Software Development Lifecyle: Knowledge of water fall and Agile methodologies, tools and techniques
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Knowledge of UAT activities, tasks, tools and techniques; ability to design, implement and evaluate acceptance tests for end-user
Top Candidates Will Have:
- Bachelors degree or master?s degree in accounting, information systems, STEM or similar related discipline
- Progressive Project Management experience, including ability to strategize, implement and maintain project initiative
- Knowledge of product lifecycle, tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis
- Collaboration experience with Business Accountant/Finance and Data Science teams in both USA and Offshore environment
- Intermediate understanding of SQL concepts and professional experience with database management (SQL Server and Snowflake) and data reporting tools (PowerBI, Tableau etc.)
- Previous experience in delivering Finance and Accounting data solutions
Other Details
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: IT Consulting
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