Finance Business Analyst

Job Summary
The role of the Finance Business Analyst is to work with domain experts within Finance, the Program Management Office (PMO) and Corporate Affairs to solicit and identify business requirements, address usability concerns, document and deliver solutions for the Supreme Committee's (SC's) Finance, Project Costing and Business Planning processes. Owns and manages the functional implementation of the business solutions within the corresponding modules of the SC's Oracle Enterprise Business Suite (EBS) and Hyperion Planning and Budgeting Solutions.
Key Responsibilities
• Under the direction of Client Delivery & Support Manager, leads research and requirements gathering; process analysis; investigation of existing functionality; gap analysis; participation in design of new functionality; ensure functionality or products satisfy the client requirements.
• Participate in project walkthroughs: business requirements gathering, design walkthrough, functional test plans and implementation sessions.
• Perform product testing to ensure product quality is maintained.
• Contribute to the implementation of new products and communicates effectively between internal and external stakeholders to ensure product satisfaction is maintained.
Core Duties
• Acts as the Information Technology (IT) focal point to with the stakeholder departments and is responsible for identifying and delivering cost effective business solutions in alignment with the IT Strategy.
• Manages liaison relationship with clients to ensure technical solutions meet user needs.
• Analyse business needs utilizing a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes).
• Develops overall strategies and provides advice on options, risks and costs versus benefits.
• Communicates with stakeholders of varying technical ability and subject matter expertise and explains services to clients to ensure they have a clear understanding of IT roles, processes, and activities.
• Conducts feasibility studies and drafts proposals for evaluation by appropriate users and managers.
• Develops and assists in the presentation of business cases.
• Leads short and long-term planning sessions to implement integrated business solution improvements.
• Identifies, elicits, and documents business requirements, defines business rules and communicates requirements for the implementation of business solutions.
• Prepares functional, system and program specifications bridging multiple projects.
• Reviews test plans and monitors the testing process to ensure that business results are adequately tested with minimal risk.
• Procures technical assistance to help in problem resolution.
• Provides technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to less-experienced individuals.
• Maintains appropriate professional designations and up-to-date knowledge of current information technology techniques and tools.
• Performs other related duties as required.
Focus Capabilities
The focus capabilities for the role are the capabilities in which occupants must demonstrate immediate competence. The behavioural indicators provide examples of the types of behaviours that would be expected at this level and should be reviewed in conjunction with this role's key responsibilities.
Personal Attributes:
Display Resilience
• Be flexible, show initiative and respond quickly when situations change
• Give frank and honest feedback/advice
• Listen when ideas are challenged, seek to understand the nature of the criticism and respond constructively
• Raise and work through challenging issues and seek alternatives
• Keep control of own emotions and stay calm under pressure and in challenging situations
Business Relationships:
Commit to Customer Service
• Support a culture of quality customer service in the organization
• Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the services provided and relay to customers
• Identify and respond quickly to customer needs
• Consider customer service requirements and develop solutions to meet needs
• Resolve complex customer issues and needs
• Co-operate across work areas to improve outcomes for customers
Business Relationships:
Influence and Negotiate
• Utilize facts, knowledge and experience to support recommendations
• Work towards positive and mutually satisfactory outcomes
• Identify and resolve issues in discussion with other staff and stakeholders
• Identify others' concerns and expectations
• Respond constructively to conflict and disagreements
• Keep discussion focused on the key issues
Results:
Think and Solve Problems
• Research and analyze information, identify interrelationships and make recommendations based on relevant evidence
• Anticipate, identify and address issues and potential problems and select the most effective solutions from a range of options
• Participate in and contribute to team/unit initiatives to resolve common issues or barriers to effectiveness
• Identify and share business process improvements to enhance effectiveness
• Describes future scenarios and related opportunities. Plans potential responses involving stakeholder, peers, processes, and technology.
• Leads a timely response, seeking internal/external advice and consultation, and sustains progress through uncharted territories.
Results:
Analytical Thinking
• Determines criteria for assessing issues and opportunities.
• Establishes clear goals and priorities needed to assess performance.
• Identifies relationships and linkages between different information sources.
• Anticipates issues that are not readily apparent on the surface.
• Identifies root causes and effects.
• Establishes clear goals and priorities.
• Anticipates potential problems and develops solutions needed to resolve them.
• Identifies areas of significant concern or opportunity.
Management Reporting
• Ensure on-going reporting (including MIS) to Management in order to keep them abreast and informed from a performance aspect - status, as requested.
Policies & Procedures
• Abide with the implementation of operational policies, procedures and controls covering all areas of work and ensure all relevant procedural / legislative requirements are fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost-effective service to customers.
Continuous Improvement
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of section systems, processes and practices taking into account ‘international best practice', improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor directly related or relevant to the job
• Ensure the assigned responsibilities are delivered:
- to a high standard of quality and timeliness
- in full compliance with the SC Quality Policy and the Safety and Security rules and requirements
- in line with any standards and objectives designated in the Employee Performance Management system