Functional Analyst, Finance

Functional Analyst, Finance - ( 230001WD )

**Description**

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works behind the scenes to support operational excellence. Our functional services teams (FSTs) provide services to 26,000 employees in over 400 locations worldwide. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our FSTs are vital to making our Company stronger.

**Your Opportunity**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Functional Analyst with Finance experience on our team. If you have experience in multiple functional areas in Oracle EBS, specifically General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, and Fixed Assets we want to hear from you In the **Functional Analyst
- Finance** position, you will work closely with end-users and the support team to resolve Tier 2 incidents/ problems and perform regular on-demand service delivery activities. In addition, you will be critical in providing functional expertise in assigned project roles on implementing Oracle solutions.

Stantec offers a flexible work environment, and we are open for this position to work remotely.

**Your Key Responsibilities**
- Monitor and respond in a timely manner to incidents and service interruptions logged by the IT Service Center in the service management system.
- Resolve functional problems effectively and efficiently working with internal teams and external vendors to identify work around, root cause and fix.
- Monitor and resolve processing exceptions minimizing impact to business users and meeting the key control requirements.
- Keep abreast of configuration options and best practices with out-of-the-box functionality.
- Contribute to the solution design, configuration, integration, testing, training, knowledge-transfer activities, and post-production support requirements.
- Provide functional expertise in assigned project roles on implementing Oracle solutions.
- Perform service delivery activities following pre-defined processes/procedures including period/quarter/year-end processing, table updates, organization changes, etc.
- Execute scheduled maintenance activities such as responding to system alerts.
- Execute a variety of tasks in support of acquisition migrations.
- Collaborate with and/or escalate incidents to functional developers/technical developers when resolution through front-end does not appear evident.
- Identify opportunities to reduce or prevent incidents occurring such as educating/training end-users or functional/technical changes.
- Log service requests with vendors and coordinate diagnostics, requested actions, and perform testing.
- Execute SQL database queries to assist in data analysis.
- Plan, prepare and execute functional and system testing, assist in issue resolution; and develop test cases as required.
- Consult business and system analysts on end-user system practices.
- Proactively identify and consult on functional capabilities to improve service delivery processes.
- Analyze requirements documents and participate in requirements discussions with business stakeholder to support solution once implemented.
- Research and develop proof-of-concepts to determine optimal functional designs.
- Document functional designs and configurations.
- Collaborate with end users and/or other team members to determine requirements and plan/design solutions.
- Assess impacts of functional changes to the system, including upstream and downstream system flows; and develop appropriate unit test plans to mitigate risk of changes negatively impacting the business.
- Work collaboratively with technical analysts to design and develop solutions requiring technical configurations and extensions.
- Adhere to Stantec’s Solution Delivery Framework, Incident Management, and Change Management procedures.

**Qualifications**

**Your Capabilities and Credentials**
- Experience with multiple functional areas in Oracle EBS, specifically General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, and Fixed Assets. Experience with iExpense and Accounts Payable is also helpful.
- Experience with PBCS and Smart View
- Experience with Oracle Business Intelligence
- Experience with BlackLine
- Strong customer service orientation and professional demeanor.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Problem solving skills with a keen attention to detail.
- Understanding of end-user system practices and processes for a particular business domain.
- Experience with ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library).
- Ability to work independently.
- Experience with system development and testing methodologies and tools.
- Good presentation and facilitation skills.
- Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and QA testing tools such as qTest.

**Education and Experience**
- Post-secondary education or experience in Business, Finance, Information Technology, or related field.
- Minimum of 6 years experience in a related role, or equivalent education and experience.
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