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Senior Financial Systems Analyst
Bowling Green State University
Salary: Depends on Qualifications
Job Type: Full-Time
Division: Finance & Administration
Opening Date: 11/06/2024
Location: Main Campus (BG), OH
Job Number: BGSU00596
Department: Finance & Administration
Closing: Continuous
Summary
The Senior Financial Systems Analyst position provides solutions to the Financial Management System (FMS) and Human Capital Management systems (HCM) business problems employing the latest technology and the most efficient processes while protecting the institution's data assets. The Senior Financial Systems Analyst researches, analyzes, designs, tests, and implements new financial computer systems, modifications to existing financial computer systems, and modifications to acquired systems. The Senior Financial Systems Analyst estimates costs, recommends and justifies solutions, identifies resource requirements, creates programming specifications to communicate the user needs to the development staff in the form of a development project, monitors and tracks the progress of these development projects, and communicates regular project status reports to project stakeholders.
Essential Functions
- Initiates, plans, execute, monitors, coordinates, and controls all phases and resources needed to complete project development and implementation. Prepares accurate estimate of time, personnel and equipment resources needed to complete system development.
- Analyzes customer needs, identifies alternative solutions, estimates the cost and risk of each alternative, and recommends the best solution to satisfy the customer's needs. This could involve the design of new systems, modifications to existing systems or modifications to current business processes (leveraging 'delivered' system functionality).
- Create programming specifications that describe the project scope, functional requirements, and technical requirements including: file layouts, page layouts and functionality, menu navigation, report layouts, data mapping, report / interface / conversion requirements, web service requirements, security requirements, unit testing requirements and many other technical details.
- Research and trouble shoot production support issues in both FMS and HCM. This includes problem identification and documentation, research alternative solutions with third party vendors and peer institutions, analyze upgrades and maintenance packs from vendors.
- Conducts Unit Testing for all development projects and vendor upgrades / maintenance packs and assists the functional users with User Acceptance Testing, System Integration Testing and Pre-Production Testing to ensure that a high quality solution gets implemented. Monitors and documents issues found during testing and ensures that all issues are resolved.
- Maintains a current knowledge of financial processing and systems analysis techniques, technologies and trends and provides sound technical advice.
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications
The following Degree is required:
- Bachelor's Degree. Degree must be conferred at time of application.
- Computer Science or Management Information Systems or related field
- 3 years of experience with Enterprise Resource Platforms (ERP's)
- 3 years of technical design/development
- 3 years of financial project leadership
- 3 years of technical design/development
- 2 years of applications development
Additional Information
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Technical knowledge associated with the current technologies being leveraged by the ERP PeopleSoft and 3rd party applications implemented at BGSU. This includes web programming languages, relational and object oriented database techniques, web and data network communications protocols, application and data security protocols.
- Basic Project Management practices and methodologies
- Skills and abilities to transform financial transactional data into sound end-user information
Deadline to apply: The search committee will review applications until the position is filled; however, for best consideration, applications should be provided by November 20, 2024.
Required Documents to Upload to Application: Cover Letter and Resume
Bowling Green State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Educator and Employer . We are committed to a multicultural environment and strongly encourage applications from women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Bowling Green State University, please call 419-372-8421 or email ohr@bgsu.edu.
To apply, please visit https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/bgsu/jobs/4720417/senior-financial-systems-analyst
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