
FP&A Finance Systems Analyst
General Motors
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Silao • 🇲🇽 Mexico
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Oracle
About the role
- This role is for a FP&A Finance System Analyst under the FP&A Systems Center of Excellence in GBS Finance.
- The role oversees administration of all aspects of the finance systems: working with IT partners to maintain applications, maintaining user security, ensuring data governance standards are followed, and supporting global finance users for development of managerial actual /forecast development, and consolidation and reporting.
- Partner with business teams to understand and develop requirements for database enhancements.
- Develop, design, and partner with IT to implement system solutions based on requirements.
- Perform all User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on application enhancements for accuracy, completeness, and functionality.
- Lead Parallel Testing with business partners by identifying key users and leading efforts to complete parallel testing efforts.
- Stewardship over all aspect of security: Role provisioning, addition/deletions, reviewing security groups, and performing security audits.
- Identify opportunities and implement solutions to streamline processes and procedures to reduce close times.
- Design, develop, and fastidiously maintain standardized processes and documentation for application support.
- Able to work with a high level of independent capability and initiative, while being able adjust daily workloads to shift for competing business priorities, to be able to finish assignments without undue supervision.
- Able to root cause and perform ad hoc work arounds with little to no preparation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with a major in Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems.
- 5 or more years of relevant work experience in Accounting or FP&A
- Ability to interpret financial statements: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statements and perform basic variance analysis – plan versus forecast
- Experience performing Forecasting, Long-term planning, and Budgeting
- Basic knowledge of GAAP with ability to understand linkages between accounts to develop a Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, or a how-to T-account a Buy/Sale transaction
- Able to draw accurate conclusions from financial and quantitative information
- Moderate or better Excel skills with preferred experience using Oracle’s Smart View
- Strong English verbal and written communication skills; able to communicate key issues for action/decision
- SAP knowledge and experience is essential in being able to understand the integration of ledger with planning applications, maintaining WBS structure and being able to understand linkages in SAP code block and Hyperion systems
- Experience with either Oracle Hyperion Planning, Financial Data Quality Management (FDM), or Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial analysisforecastingbudgetingvariance analysisdata governanceuser acceptance testingparallel testingprocess improvementGAAPT-accounting
Soft skills
independent capabilityinitiativeadaptabilitycommunicationproblem-solvingattention to detailleadershipcollaborationanalytical thinkingtime management