Business Analyst Financial System Support-Global Industrial

Genuine Parts Company•Atlanta, AL

About The Position

The Business Analyst, Package Software analyzes, supports, and improves enterprise financial applications, including PeopleSoft, BlackLine, and CoStar. The role partners with Finance, Operations, IT, external vendors, and other stakeholders to understand business needs, document requirements, support application configuration, and deliver effective solutions. It requires functional knowledge of financial business processes, particularly General Ledger, and the ability to translate business requirements into functional design documents, test plans, process improvements, and production-support solutions. The position also provides functional administration and troubleshooting across supported applications, supports financial close activities and high-volume data interfaces, and contributes throughout the solution lifecycle from analysis and design through testing, deployment, and post-production support. The Business Analyst uses SQL to investigate data and validate results, maintains functional and operational documentation, and delivers communications, training, and knowledge transfer to business users and stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Finance, or a related technical field; an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
Five or more years of business analysis or functional analysis experience.
Three or more years of General Ledger experience.
At least one year of experience supporting one or more of the following areas: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Project Costing, Asset Management, or Cash Management.
Experience creating Functional Design Documents, business requirements, process flows, and test documentation.
Strong SQL skills, including querying and analyzing data to investigate issues and validate solutions.
Demonstrated experience with root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
Experience planning and executing system and functional testing.
Ability to analyze complex business processes and recommend practical process or system improvements.
Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with PeopleSoft configuration, including business units, ChartFields, allocations, combination-edit rules, and Tree Manager.
Experience administering or supporting BlackLine and/or CoStar.
Experience supporting financial close processes in a large or complex enterprise environment.
Experience supporting high-volume data interfaces and integrations.
Familiarity with process-mapping and business-analysis methodologies.
Experience working with technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders in an enterprise application-support environment.

Responsibilities

Gather, analyze, clarify, prioritize, and document business and system requirements with business and technical stakeholders.
Facilitate workshops, meetings, and other requirements-gathering activities.
Develop Functional Design Documents, workflow documentation, process models, and other solution-design artifacts.
Translate business requirements into specifications for technical teams and validate that delivered solutions meet business needs.
Analyze current-state processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, controls, data quality, and user experience.
Provide best-practice recommendations to operations and business teams.
Provide functional administration and support for PeopleSoft, BlackLine, and CoStar.
Support PeopleSoft Financials processes, including General Ledger month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities.
Configure and maintain PeopleSoft business units, ChartFields, allocations, combination-edit rules, and Tree Manager structures.
Troubleshoot application, processing, interface, and data issues; perform root-cause analysis and coordinate resolution with technical teams and vendors.
Interpret error messages, identify data issues, and resolve common processing errors across supported applications.
Support high-volume data interfaces into and out of PeopleSoft, including environments processing millions of rows daily.
Develop test plans, scenarios, cases, and expected results for enhancements, releases, fixes, and change requests.
Execute functional and system testing and document outcomes, defects, and resolution status.
Collaborate with technical teams through analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
Support change-management activities, including user communications, training materials, and operational readiness.
Deliver knowledge-transfer sessions and training to super users, operations management, and business stakeholders.
Use SQL to research data, validate results, troubleshoot issues, and support business decision-making.
Create and maintain functional, process, support, test, and configuration documentation.
Communicate workflows and procedures using concise language, structured outlines, process diagrams, and other appropriate documentation methods.
Serve as a liaison among business users, IT teams, vendors, and internal or external partners to ensure timely and accurate information sharing.