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Senior Financial ERP Analyst

Posted on: Jan 7, 2025

Posted by: Strathcona County

Summary

Are you an experienced accountant with expertise in implementing and maintaining financial systems? Or an IT professional with deep knowledge of financial management and accounting processes gained through your work with financial systems?

The Senior Financial ERP Analyst will work closely with the Financial & Strategic Services (FSS) department leading operational support and continuous improvement of Strathcona County’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application Oracle Fusion.

On a daily basis, this role supports operations by leading the investigation and resolution of system and transaction processing issues. Additionally, this position enables effective quarterly release update management by analyzing release notes and advising on potential implications and coordinating the completion of regression testing with users. Lastly, this position supports continuous improvement by identifying and implementing opportunities to better use Oracle Fusion to improve accounting and financial management processes.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

Lead the operational sustainment of Oracle Fusion Financial Management modules, ensuring financial management processes are properly supported
Lead issue investigation, including coordination of issue review between relevant stakeholders, investigation from technical and functional perspectives to identify potential causes, research and develop recommendations for solutions, and lead engagement with product vendor support and/or 3^rd-party product support
Guide the development of issue solutions, including the design of system configuration changes and/or transaction processing procedures, to resolve the issue
Steer solution testing, including executing unit testing, leading user acceptance testing (UAT), bug-fix resolution and UAT sign-off
Lead the deployment of quarterly Oracle Releases, including performing review and impact assessment of release notes, and engage with FSS Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to assess and test the impacts of the release, to identify and address any issues with the release prior to deployment to PROD
Lead continuous improvement of Oracle Fusion Financial Management modules, ensuring financial management processes remain efficient, effective, and relevant
Develop recommendations for improvement solutions, and lead engagements with SMEs and other relevant stakeholders to evaluate and make decisions on recommendations

Requirements

Qualifications and Skills:

Diploma or degree in Accounting or Information Technology, with experience focusing on financial ERP application administration, including: application functionality, general ledger and subledger interactions, maintaining application configuration settings, developing, modifying, or maintaining reports, and ERP application sustainment and support
Demonstrated functional understanding of financial management and accounting function is required
At least 7 years progressively responsible and related experience working in the implementation and/or operational sustainment of financial ERP systems
Training, certification, and/or experience in Oracle Cloud Financials and/or Questica Budget will be considered an asset
Business analysis, project management, and/or change management experience is considered an asset
Experience with MS project, MS Visio, IBM BlueWorks Live or other process modelling tools would be an asset

Job Type

Full Time

Employer Contact

No employer contact listed.

Salary Range

$92,346.80 - $115,479.00

Closing Date

January 2, 2025

Posting ID: 29379