It Senior Business Analyst - North American Finance Operations Excellence

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The IT Senior Business Analyst - North American Finance (Center of Excellence) is a key driver for projects delivery, IT operating model, and business partnerships with Group Functions, especially Finance (NAM and Group).
What You'll Do:
• Act as an IT Product and Core model expert for our core Finance application and modules (ERP Oracle JDE NAM mainly), participate in AR and AP group tools governance and projects
• Ensure NAM Finance IT run and enhancement deliveries, with other IT partners
• Participate to projects / deployments and rollouts for Group Functions applications, as IT Finance and ERP expert
• In charge of understanding business requirements and rules and translating them into IT requirements that will later be used to build / fix the information systems
• Propose innovative solutions and optimized processes to solve business key pain points
• In charge of ensuring good IT specifications (part of Global IT knowledge capture program), challenge the proposals of external stakeholders
• Capture the knowledge, understand and master the applications in order to cover the needs
• Be a solid counterpart of the other IT teams (especially ETL and development teams) to ensure good delivery of IT Projects, Demands and Requests (from specifications, to unit IT test, to end-to-end UAT)
• Follow progress, reporting to Project Manager and business counterparts
• Perform Key user support level 3
• Counterpart of support Level 2 (Group IT), providers and business people.
• Can be a trusted counterpart on functional issue, interacting smoothly with employees up to Director's level
• Can organize and facilitate workshops with up to 15 participants
What We're Looking for In You:
• 5+ years of JDE ERP IT finance experience or 10+ years of IT finance experience with minimum 5 years ERP experience with other platforms, e.g. PeopleSoft, SAP
• Finance processes knowledge is a must (AP, AR, GL, Cash, Treasury Management)
• ERP Finance (JDE) modules knowledge is a real asset
• Ivalua, Sidetrade, and/or Blackline knowledge is a plus
• Bachelor's degree in either IT or Business is required
• Native English, good presentation skills, French language is a plus
• Be autonomous: know how to organize the work to reach the objectives defined by the Center of Excellence
• Be a team player - know how to organize a project and ensure good relationships with different stakeholders (internal, IT, external)
• Adopt a service-oriented behavior - know how to interact with sponsors and report/follow activities (project, budget, risk, service continuity)
• Be able to multi-task - know how to act as key point of contact for Support activities as well as on project mode, with different stakeholders
• Be rigorous and knowledge capture oriented
Additional Information:
• Part of a global team
• Work in global organization
• International travels can occur for some projects
Location: Shelton, CT (hybrid - 2 days per week in the office & 3 days working from home)
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