Overview

　　This is a functional role (not an IT position) in the Finance Corporate Accounting organization playing a key role working across Finance functional teams, the IT engineering organization, and various business units. 70% of this role is business and process oriented whereas the other 30% is more technical. As an individual contributor, the business systems analyst in this role will be responsible for ensuring the success of delivering finance requirements when the business is delivering functional or offering changes; in-depth content knowledge is required to define scenarios and complete testing validations. The ideal candidate for this role can gracefully operate in concurrent efforts and quickly switch between projects.

　　This position will require strong project management, cross-functional and effective change management skills, with the ability to concurrently operate in multiple phases and projects. Within the Finance processes, the primary focus of this position is Money Movement processes (defined as Intuit moving money on behalf of its customers). Many of systems in scope are proprietary service based systems supporting our Payments, Payroll, Capital and Banking products.

　　The individual in this role must have comprehensive systems requirements/implementation and testing experience in Accounting and money movement functional processes and financial systems; strong project management skills and exceptional communication skills. The person in this role will be responsible for ensuring that finance functionality delivered works as expected alongside the functionality the business is delivering. This individual must have good business sense, be an independent thinker, be a driver, a team player and partner, be able to communicate clearly, work effectively with diverse groups, and be skillful with quantitative/qualitative analytical methodologies and tools.

　　What you'll bring

　　Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business Systems or equivalent relevant experienceMinimum of 3-5 years of functional finance/business systems experienceStrong "systems / process orientation" with demonstrated analytical thinking, organizational skills and problem solving skillsExcellent written and verbal communications, presentation and influencing skills, including the ability to raise issues appropriately to the right level internally and externally to resolveAbility to influence people and indirectly manage a team of people to ensure the effective execution of complex initiativesAbility to manage complexity well and demonstrate experience managing across functions and businesses to accomplish large scale goalsAbility to perform metrics analysisMust be comfortable working in cross-functional teams and willing to voice an opinionMust be able to understand both business needs and the technologies to implement themBasic data analysis skills; ability to analyze data and identify data issues; SQL knowledge extremely beneficial

　　How you will lead

　　This individual will partner with business stakeholder groups to understand scope of platform capability releases and business driven initiatives that impact the Finance Money Movement group. This role works directly with the various business and functional stakeholders to understand where Finance involvement is required. Responsible for collaborating with Finance Process Architects to obtain a knowledge transfer then effectively apply learnings to deliver Finance functional requirements to the platform(s).Test Coverage - The person will work with IT and Finance teams to ensure the test scope coverage is complete and tests are executed correctly. This role will work with process architects and Finance process owners to review results of tests to ensure system is working as designed and to ensure that deadlines are met and that the Finance requirements are implemented efficiently and effective. Test Validations - This individual possesses a deep understanding of the business processes and the technology platform that enables it. The candidate should be able to effectively identify defects within the delivered functionality, while applying technical and business process expertise. Entrance & Exit of Testing Phases - This person will work with stakeholders to ensure the system is performing as designed, prior to providing approval to release to production, and is responsible for working through roadblocks that prevent Finance from signing off on a test cycle.Change Management and Communication - drive overall change management to Finance stakeholders throughout the software lifecycle development process with a goal of 'no surprises' for stakeholders; the ideal person for this role has excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and can understand risk and business impact to make appropriate prioritization and tradeoff recommendations.Project Management/Project Status - this person will be have the capabilities to manage multiple concurrent projects and effectively communicate project status on a regular basis, and escalate to leadership where necessary.