Functional Financial Analyst

On behalf of our client here in **Vancouver**, ** Ignite Technical Resources **is looking for a **Functional** **Analyst **for a **full-time** **opportunity.** **Role**: Reports to the Finance Product Manager. Works in partnership across the functional Finance, Student and HR teams and the broader client community to deliver an integrated solution for all stakeholders. Frequently engages with teams and team members across the broader ISC and client community to understand project requirements, including interdependencies and impacts. **Responsibilities**: **1) Acts as the product resource for Finance and related areas (e.g., payroll).** - Partners with key stakeholders to develop business requirements; details functional specification documents, and test cases. - Identifies Finance functional requirements for the ISC by consulting with the stakeholder community to determine design elements and prioritize enhancements, changes, and releases. - Gathers, analyzes and defines reporting needs and requirements and develops reports; partners across the ISC to ensure complex onboard and offboard reports meet client requirements. - Defines and prepares security roles/groups and work for implementation. - Identifies and recommends product improvement areas leader. - Fields specialist knowledge tickets and support problem and incident resolutions. - Reviews and prioritize releases, enhancements, and changes. - Partners across the ISC and broader client Community for the creation of use test cases. - Conducts business tests for configuration validation and facilitates integrated testing. **2) Develops and maintains effective partnerships across the ISC and broader client community.** - Partners cross-functionally across the ISC to align work, priorities and practices, participating in stakeholder review meetings as appropriate. - Partners across the ISC to ensure complex onboard and offboard reports (incl. boomerang reports) meet client requirements. - Partners with Application Sustainment and client IT to support the definition and documentation of future Finance business needs, processes, and interdependencies. **3) Partners to move client's practices from "system of record" to "platform of engagement" through collaborative and innovative efforts.** - Solicits feedback fostering an agile, innovative, and collaborative transformation experience. - Partners with relevant stakeholders to resolve issues related to engagement, adoption, sustainment, and continuous improvement. - Participates in and contributes to the client's Operational Excellence community of practice. **4) Actively promotes best practices in the security and privacy of personal information and data; makes recommendations to improve processes and procedures where necessary.** **To be Successful You Need To Have**: - 5+ years of Functional Financial Analyst exp and has demonstrated experience administering and upkeeping a financial management system or Enterprise Resource Planning system throughout periods of significant change. - Upgrading/migration experiences with any Budget and Planning tools (ex Oracle Hyperion). - Experience working with ERP software. - Experience working in a complex, academic and multi-union environment is preferred. - Demonstrated ability to engage with stakeholders and to analyze and provide insight regarding a range of Finance products. - Proven knowledge of business process re-engineering / improvement, data analysis, and data modeling (conceptual, logical). - Demonstrated knowledge and proven experience in producing business requirements, use cases, user scenarios, user stories, and business process maps. - Demonstrated experience collaborating on cross-functional teams to meet critical, time-sensitive deadlines and communicating to diverse audiences. **Nice to Have**: - Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning. - Workday experience is an asset. - Eligibility for and interest in pursuing their CFA or CPA designation would be considered an asset. - Demonstrated experience in agile management or other related methods is considered an asset. Ignite Technical Resources is a Vancouver-based Information Technology resourcing firm built around three principles: speed, efficiency and quality. We provide highly trained and qualified technical consultants to your organization as a flexible work force option. **Ignite. Wired for people.** **About Ignite Technical Resources.**: