IT Business Analyst Lead (Accounting & Finance)
Capio Group is looking for an experienced Business Analyst with focus in Accounting and Finance.
Full-time employee - Remote
Salary: $120,000 - $145,000
About Us:
Since 2010, we have been working with some of the largest government agencies in California, helping them to solve their greatest challenges. We are a small firm dedicated to big ideas and enjoy the rewards that come from hard work and commitment to our client base. We offer the salary and benefits of the bigger companies with the added bonus of a flexible workplace and a great work-life balance.
Scope of Work:
Capio Group is looking for a Business Analyst to work as part of a system integration team to provide solution implementation, software licensing and maintenance, and optional post-implementation services for the Client.
The team will develop and implement a Salesforce solution that will replace the client’s existing thirty-one (31) existing program area applications (primarily Microsoft .NET), which often supports overlapping functions, each with its own interfaces and unique outputs. The solution must eliminate the manual effort to process Accounts Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP) for a number of program applications while continuing to electronically process the $1.5 billion annually (and 100,000 transactions per year) for the fund which is currently managed via Oracle E-Business Suite.
The implementation services include all the work required to prepare, modify, and configure the solution to meet solution requirements including the preparation and loading of data, system testing, applicable training, organizational change management, go-live and post-go-live support.
The Business Analyst (Accounting/Finance) has overall responsibility to ensure the solution meets required financial functionality and complies with State policy and regulations, and industry best practices. Specific tasks including but not limited to:
- Ensures the Solution complies with State policy and regulations related to financial and accounting requirements and best practices.
- Provides knowledge and expertise of accounting best practices required for configurations to address tracking, reconciliation, and reporting, and interfaces with external system/agency.
- Coordinates financial configuration activities and external system interface requirements with client and external system/agency.
- Coordinates business process workflow development activities related to financial transactions.
- Collaborates with client counterparts to communicate and coordinate testing.
- Accountable for overall requirements management.
- Responsible for resolving requirement ambiguity with the client and the team and documenting change and initiating change control.
- Responsible for developing, documenting, and validating functional requirements and non-functional (technical) requirements.
- Responsible for allocation of requirements to specific phases and releases.
- Responsible to identify requirements not in alignment with solution established goals, objectives, and targets.
- Responsible for identifying and communicating functional alignment of requirements to software functional and configuration capabilities.
- Responsible for resolving business process flow ambiguity with client and the team and documenting change and initiating change control.
Mandatory Experience:
- Within the last 15 years, served in a lead role on a complex IT project(s) with a contract value of at least ten-million ($10M) for five (5) years compiling, analyzing, interpreting, configuring, and managing information in General Ledger / Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable accounting systems.
- Within the last 15 years, served in a lead role on a complex IT project(s) with a contract value of at least ten-million ($10M) for three (3) years working with financial system(s) that process:
a minimum of two hundred thousand (200,000) transactions
or
a minimum of two hundred million ($200M) dollars worth of transactions annually and involved:
upgrading IT modernization
or
replacing legacy solutions to new platforms. - Within the last 15 years, served in a lead role on a complex IT project(s) with a contract value of at least ten-million ($10M) for two (2) years applying analytical processes on cloud-based SaaS solution(s) involving software development and data migration.
- Must possess a current and valid Workday Financials Certification.
- Must be able to provide references for all projects used to meet the Mandatory and Desirable Qualifications.
Desirable Experience:
- Within the last 15 years, served in a lead role for one (1) year on a complex information technology (IT) project(s) with a contract value of at least ten-million ($10M) supporting a State of California financial/accounting solution that interfaces with Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) or similar system(s).
- Holds a current business process/Agile certification (one of the following):
- Project Management Institute Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)®
- Agile Scrum Master Certification from a recognized institute (e.g., PMI, Scrum Alliance)
- International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
- Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Certification®
- Association of Business Process Management Professionals, Certified Business Process Professional
- Object Management Group Certified Expert in Business Process Management 2 (OCEB 2), intermediate or higher
Equal Opportunity Employer:
At Capio Group, our employees are our greatest asset and diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of who we are. Our commitment to these values is unyielding and is central to our mission and to our impact. We know that having diverse perspectives helps to generate better ideas to solve the complex problems of our diverse clients and the communities they serve.