Overview
This role is for a business-facing Business Systems Analyst Consultant with a finance/accounting background. The work focuses on owning business analysis activities—leading requirements conversations, producing core BA deliverables, and representing the business/finance perspective with vendors and technical teams.
Responsibilities
- Interview stakeholders from different profit centers to identify current-state finance workflows
- Review end-to-end workflows including invoicing, cash application, AR processing, AP procurement and management, monthly close and reporting, treasury management, and related activities
- Lead requirements gathering and elicitation sessions; document business requirements and gain sign-off
- Represent business/finance stakeholders in discussions with vendors and technical teams by translating business needs, reviewing proposed solutions, and confirming solutions meet business requirements
- Support accounting transformations and system implementations (e.g., new GL or billing system rollouts, data conversions), including documenting process changes and coordinating testing
- Participate in user acceptance testing and business validation by clarifying what business users should test, validating converted/reconciled data, documenting issues, tracking defects through resolution, and supporting sign-off
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting (or a closely related field); equivalent, demonstrated accounting-role experience may be considered in place of a degree
- CPA a plus, not required
- 5-10 years of Business Systems Analysis experience with clear personal ownership of BA work (not primarily IT, technical coordination, reporting, or systems-support)
- Strong finance knowledge and working knowledge of GAAP standards
- Direct, hands-on experience with multiple core accounting processes, such as:
- AR (invoicing, cash application)
- AP (vendor invoices/payments)
- reconciliations
- order-to-cash
- month-end close (journal entries, accruals, financial reporting support)
- Experience supporting accounting transformation or system implementations, with a clearly defined personal role (e.g., new GL or billing system implementation, process documentation, testing coordination, data conversion validation)
- Demonstrated experience representing business users to vendors or technical teams, including clarifying business needs, translating requirements, reviewing proposed solutions, and constructively pushing back when solutions don’t meet the business need
- Experience with core BA deliverables, including current/future-state process maps, user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements documents (BRDs), design specs, and training materials
- Hands-on involvement in UAT and business validation, including writing or reviewing test scripts, coordinating UAT sessions, documenting defects, validating data, and helping obtain business sign-off
- Business Systems Analysis experience in the insurance industry a plus
Preferred Qualifications
- Process flow diagramming experience; MS Visio experience preferred
- Six Sigma and process standardization/improvement experience a plus
Compensation & Benefits
- 100% remote position
- Base salary and full benefits, including health, dental, vision, life, disability, vacation, and 401(k) with company match
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