Senior Business Analyst - Accounting and Finance Solutions

The Business Analyst is responsible for analyzing the client's context and business needs or processes within the framework of medium-complexity projects that may require integration across one or more business areas. They interact with stakeholders, users, and contributors and are responsible for ensuring the overall alignment of projects with business needs and organizational objectives. They identify, design, and recommend business solutions and analyze their impact on the organization. Within projects, they collaborate in defining business objectives, define the scope of solutions, and support the project manager in key decision-making. They are responsible for ensuring the alignment of solutions with business objectives and operational needs. They are also responsible for the end-to-end integration of business solutions, from the business requirements definition phase through to deployment.

The consultant works closely with a Business Architect, business experts, project manager, sponsor, integration solutions architect, and delivery teams. He is involved in the entire implementation cycle of the solutions and must ensure that all stakeholders understand the solution.

The mandate will focus more specifically on the evolution of business processes and the Oracle accounting software packages that support them for the property and casualty insurance finance sector. We are looking for a very senior business professional in the accounting/finance field, capable of demonstrating leadership and influence, in addition to a minimum of four years in a proven business analyst role.

Main Responsibilities:

• Analyze situations to understand organizational problems and seize opportunities
  
• Identify, analyze, document, and validate the organization's business needs and requirements
  
• Map current and target business processes
  
• Influence financial processes based on best market practices
  
• Support stakeholders and ensure their buy-in to project requirements
  
• Support the identification of business value
  
• Verify, validate, and manage the traceability of business needs
  
• Align the solution with business objectives
  
• Identify internal and external prerequisites and dependencies
  
• Analyze the impacts on stakeholders
  
• Communicate and present the solution
  
• Evaluate and validate the effectiveness of a solution in relation to needs and requirements
  
• Ensure a comprehensive view of the solution

Requirements

Skills:

• Customer-focused
  
• Ability to challenge existing practices and propose alternatives
  
• Ability to foster employee engagement
  
• Ability to cooperate
  
• Action-oriented
  
• Manage uncertainty and ambiguity
  
• Master interpersonal skills
  
• Communicate effectively
  
• Understand Agile values and principles
  
• Possess creative, analytical, and systemic thinking skills
  
• Ability to simplify complex information and synthesize information effectively
  

Required knowledge and skills:

• Bachelor's degree
  
• ESSENTIAL: A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in accounting, finance, and financial systems
  
• ESSENTIAL: A minimum of 4 years of experience in a business analyst role
  
• Knowledge of Oracle financial software packages (ERP Cloud, EBS, EPM Cloud, Hyperion) is an asset
  
• Knowledge of the property and casualty insurance industry is an asset
  
• Accounting designation is an asset