Title: AM, Application Engineering
Function/Role: Business Analyst – Finance/Accounts
FTE Requirement: 1
Reports To: Manager, Application Engineering
Expected
Date of Recruitment: Immediate
Position Summary: The Business Analyst is expected to be very effective in understanding business cases, eliciting requirements, modeling business processes and identifying the appropriate type of software solutions. For this role, a high level professional attitude and the ability to communicate are very vital. Candidate should have ability to juggle multiple tasks and timelines. He should be self motivated and able to complete projects without constant supervision. Candidate must have background in Accounting and/or Finance and should have been involved in Requirement gathering and analysis of at least one large Accounting/Financia l application.
Roles & Responsibilities:
· Understanding the business processes and defining the business process, use cases and actors, and how they interact.
· Identify key business processes across finance functionality (e.g. chart of accounts implementation, standardized financial statement close process, budgeting etc.)
· Impart Finance/Accounts domain knowledge to development team through trainings and cater to their domain specific queries.
· Requirement Analysis, Gap analysis and Impact Analysis for the software system.
· Preparation and Review of Function specification Documents (Software requirement specification) .
· Obtain agreement on what the system should do.
· Provide application developers with better understanding of what the system must do.
· Defining the boundaries for the application.
· Establish basis for technical planning.
· Establish basis for estimating cost and time for the application.
· Define access interface (UI) for interaction with the system.
· Coordinate with testers for preparation of test plans, test cases etc.
Job Requirements:
Ø Essential Skills:
· Analysis of Business Processes, Problems and Root Causes: Highly competent in analysis and detailed investigation of business process problems, problem causes and in techniques for identifying problem causes.
· Business Domain Knowledge: Expert in the Finance/Accounts business domain, good operational practices, business processes knowledge, products trends, market pressures and competition. He should reflect good knowledge of key accounting/Financia l concepts; e.g. Capital, Cash flow, Profit/Loss, Balance sheet, Management accounting, Types of Cost and Methods of Costing, Principles of Budgeting, Measuring Business Performance using - Turnover/Profit, Investment Appraisal, key Financial performance ratios (e.g. Liquidity).
· Requirements Investigation and Definition: Highly effective in comprehensively eliciting and documenting business, functional and technical/ non-functional requirements from solution users and owners.
· Business Process Modeling and Use Case Specifications: Highly competent in modeling business requirements that are verifiable, traceable, and unambiguous, thereby specifying stakeholders' expectations accurately using modeling techniques and other tools.
· Assessing Business Process Maturity: Highly capable of researching and defining a business' processes, documenting it, measuring its outcomes and successfully identify key leverage points to improve or innovate a better process and outcome, through a continuous improvement method.
· Cost Benefit Analysis and Business Case Preparation: Highly capable of researching, constructing and documenting a cost benefit analysis for improving a system, system component or business option.
Ø Desired Skills:
· Knowledge of relational database concepts.
· Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in phases subsequent to Requirement- Gathering like Analysis-Design, Development and Testing.
· Familiarity with Oracle Apps, PeopleSoft Financials, Tally and/or another accounting/financia l package.
· Should have worked in the areas of GL, AR, AP.
· Experience in Financial Planning Analysis, Revenue recognition and analysis.
· Experienced with Variance Analysis, Forecast, Budgeting, MIS, Data Analysis.
Experience: 5-6 years
Education: MBA – Finance/ CA
Specific Domain/Technical/ Functional Skills:
Ø Domain:
Finance/Accounting domain.
Solid knowledge and understanding of account reconciliations and regular statutory filings in Indian context.
Location of Posting: Gurgaon
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