OFSAA Analyst

OFSAA Analyst

Job Location: Fremont, CA

Job Type: CWR

Job Description:

Serves as the highest level business analyst expert, lending finance experience and providing leadership to complex projects across multiple business areas, multiple platforms and/or multiple locations.

Work with business partners toward the successful implementation and adoption of OFSAA.

Makes informed and independent technical contributions to defining business and functional requirements for enhancements and projects.

Provide consulting for the practices and methods for defining detailed business requirements.

Fully support a finance transformation program bringing financial expertise as well as OFSAA and financial management product experience to bear on the entire lifecycle.

Define/review/validate high-level business requirements prior to developing detailed business and functional requirements.

Document and refine requirements to describe the business needs to a functional requirement level without presuming a technical solution. Requirements should be verifiable and testable once a solution is defined.

Work in the execution of product development across all teams as part of the development lifecycle.

Develop or modify processes to resolve moderate to complex business issues.

Work with Project and Release Management to sequence/coordinate development activities within the software development environment methodologies.

Leverage understanding of high-level system architecture/portfolio that supports the business process, and the key process areas supported by the IT systems to provide in-depth solution and problem-solving.

Operate at a high technical level for all phases of IT projects; ensuring broader business implications of proposed IT solutions are considered.

Identify applicable technology alternatives to given business problems; reviews new products/services using pre-established evaluation criteria that include architecture standards and the standards to request proposals with outside firms.

Knowledge & Experience:

5+ years' experience with Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications suite (OFSAA)

8+ years of professional IT experience with leadership in technology and business analysis.

Financial Services and Banking Industry experience required.

Bachelor's Degree in CS or IT field or equivalent experience in a directly related field.

Required skills:

Enterprise Testing, Quality Standards, and software product knowledge including the Oracle Financial product set, i.e., Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications suite (OFSAA).

Multiple OFSAA projects as a business analyst.

Strong SQL skills to query SQL databases, ability to read pseudocode.

Experience with Business Intelligence, Mapping Documents, Source Data, etc.

Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.

Experience in data integration and data quality projects.

Expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically with Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Word, and SharePoint.

Agile Software development environment methodology experience.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills across diverse audiences (Functional communication to technical stakeholders, Technical communication to non-technical stakeholders).