Business Analyst 5 (Financials background required) (Richmond Candidates Only)

Job Title: Business Analyst 5 (Richmond Candidates Only) Location: Richmond, VA Duration: 6 Months Job Description: The Client is looking for someone with implementation and/or support of Oracle's Cloud Financials system in their background. Foundational understanding of accounting concepts (primarily involving the input of financial transactions - receivables and payables is required for this role. This position will not only serve as the primary BSA for our Financial System (BAR) product team, but will also work on either small or medium sized projects or on maintenance requests to troubleshoot issues and defects or implement small enhancements to our legacy systems. A foundational understanding of accounting concepts (primarily involving the input of financial transactions - receivables and payables - into the general ledger but also a basic understanding of financial position and cash flow) is required. Previous experience with the implementation and/or support of Oracle Cloud Financial software is highly desired, but not required. As the BSA and release coordinator for our financial system product team, he or she will be responsible for monitoring the day to day load of financial data to the BAR system to identify issues, partner with internal support staff and external vendors to perform research and troubleshoot data load and reconciliation problems, serve as the upload template SME for other BSAs and provide support to the Finance team as they seek to make enhancements to the existing implementation. As time and priorities allow, he or she may also partner with other BSAs on our maintenance and support team to respond to incoming requests for enhancements and to assist with the resolution of defects and other issues on our other existing systems. RESPONSIBILITIES: Perform requirements elicitation, analysis and management activities Identify, evaluate and have a clear understanding of the high-level business needs of clients and stakeholders Translate business requirements to detailed technical requirements with fluency to enable IT technical teams Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources Reconcile conflicting requirements Abstract low-level technical information to a higher-level general understanding Create and update the requirements traceability matrix against architecture, design and test planning Continuously monitor and analyzing potential impacts to requirements and technical scope Assist in developing and validating test plans Build business process maps to depict both current state and desired state Conduct risk assessments for solutions including impact on business and technical processes Conduct functional testing and/or partner with quality assurance analysts to ensure adequate coverage of requirements Monitor interface log files to ensure the load of financial data into the financial system on a daily basis Partner with internal and external technical resources to perform research and trace data inconsistencies Partner with internal business resources to understand the impact of system upgrades and enhancements on existing business processes Partner with internal technical resources to understand the impact of Oracle's Cloud Financials system upgrades and enhancements to internally maintained interface points Provide support and knowledge to other project teams that are looking to send or receive financial data to/from the financial system Maintain the Financial System product backlog in JIRA Assist the Financial System product owner with prioritizing the backlog Escalate/communicate enhancements that will exceed the bandwidth, capacity and/or capabilities of the team Coordinate change management efforts and for ensuring that the change management process is followed for each release of the financial system BSA Role Qualifications: Foundational understanding of accounting concepts (primarily involving the input of financial transactions - receivables and payables - into the general ledger but also a basic understanding of financial position, cash flow and reconciliation) Ability to coordinate and facilitate project design sessions prior to development iterations to identify and specify logical system design Excellent requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation and management skills Familiarity in creating business and technical process and data flow diagrams Ability to assist product owners in planning for and coordinating UAT Experience making recommendations for the logical design of system enhancements Ability to comprehend and explain how change to a component/application impacts the whole system to both technical and business staff Previous experience working with Development Lead / System Engineer as liaison to communicate requirements Ability to articulate clearly defined user stories and detailed acceptance criteria that include all details necessary to build test cases Experience in communicating and working with business stakeholders to translate the business vision into actionable requirements Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills Ability to coordinate across business and technical resources to get needed information on a timely basis and ensure necessary work gets done Ability to execute simple to moderately complex (multi-table joins) SQL select statements Create and maintain data definitions (business definitions of data elements) and source to target mappings for system to system interfaces Experience Coordinating and facilitate meetings with clear agendas and in keeping participants on-track Previous experience evaluating existing business and technical processes and making recommendations on improvement Proficiency with MS Office 2013/2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) Ability to switch between more waterfall based approaches and iterative-based DESIRED, BUT NOT REQUIRED: Previous experience using JIRA for the tracking and management of requirements and tasks Previous experience serving as a Scrum Master on an Agile Team Required/Desired Skills Skill Matrix Skill Matrix Technology