
Business Systems Analyst – Finance
Energy Trust of Oregon
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Portland • Oregon • United States
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Salary
💰 $96,200 - $122,200 per year
About the role
- Analyze and document current-state and future-state Finance business processes, system functionality, integrations and data flows supporting Accounting, Compliance, Auditing and Finance Planning & Analysis (FP&A).
- Partner closely with Finance stakeholders to elicit, clarify and validate requirements, analyze current workflows and identify opportunities for process improvement and automation.
- Translate Finance business requirements into functional and technical requirements that support system configuration, integration and reporting design.
- Function as primary Business Systems Analyst for our Enterprise Financial System Implementation Project, supporting requirements definition, solution design, configuration decisions and testing activities.
- Collaborate with Business Systems Team and implementation partners to ensure solutions can continue to integrate with our most critical business systems.
- Lead creation and management of user stories and tasks in Azure DevOps or similar Agile project tracking tool.
- Automate business processes and workflows by integrating with various systems and services to enable seamless data flow and task automation.
- Manages small to medium projects using a standard project management methodology.
- Tests and deploys system changes in non-prod environments, collaborates with Product Owner and end users.
- Maintains accurate documentation on applications, data structures, queries, and reports.
- Performs proactive application administration and maintenance tasks to keep assigned applications functioning efficiently and effectively.
- Leads and performs root cause analysis of application outages, defects and issues.
- Troubleshoot system, database statements and understands the full application lifecycle.
- Responds to user issues and finds solutions to resolve issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems from an accredited college or university; or equivalent professional experience in the information technology field.
- Minimum three years of previous experience as a business systems analyst or similar role, preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in systems, data and business analysis and systems testing.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Experience providing software-related customer support and training to a non-technical user base.
- Demonstrated ability to verbally, and in writing, communicate in a clear, concise and accurate manner.
- Experience managing small to medium sized projects using agile methodologies.
- Experience leading or supporting an ERP/EFS implementation, including requirements gathering, system configuration, testing, training, and go‑live support
- Demonstrated experience writing and maintaining SQL queries to validate system behavior and outputs, and to troubleshoot application issues and data discrepancies
- Working understanding of relational databases and query logic, and data models, hierarchies and reference data used by financial platforms.
- Experience building test plans, test scripts, and executing system and integration testing
- Demonstrated ability to excel in a collaborative team environment.
- Ability to work off-hours and extended hours as needed to support IT processes and timelines.
- Customer service skills and experience. Must be able to interact with a diverse workforce and be comfortable working in culturally diverse settings and groups.
Benefits
- Health/dental/vision insurance
- Employer sponsored and paid life/disability
- 401(k) with a company contribution of 6% of your salary after 90 days of employment
- TriMet pass
- Access to health and dependent FSA/HSA accounts
- Generous paid vacation, holidays and sick days
- Paid volunteer hours
- Employee assistance program
- Career advancement opportunities
- Great colleagues and culture
- Flexibility to work from home and/or an office space at the Portland, OR location
- Work from home laptop provided
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
business analysissystems testingSQL queriesdata analysissystem configurationintegration testingproject managementAgile methodologiesroot cause analysisapplication administration
Soft Skills
customer service orientationclear communicationcollaborative teamworkproblem-solvingtraining non-technical usersdocumentation skillsprocess improvementanalytical thinkingattention to detailadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in information systems