Business Systems Analyst Finance Systems

eBay•Austin, TX

3d•$118,000 - $128,000

About The Position

The Business Systems Analyst – Finance Systems supports the accuracy, reliability, and usability of eBay’s financial planning and reporting ecosystem. The role has a strong FP&A orientation and works across Anaplan, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) to ensure Finance teams have trusted data for planning, forecasting, and performance analysis. The position supports day-to-day operations of FP&A-critical systems and collaborates with FP&A, Accounting, IT, and data teams. It helps maintain stable planning and reporting cycles, resolve system and data issues, and improve forecast accuracy, planning efficiency, and confidence in financial data. The role also supports management and executive reporting, system changes and integrations, and repeatable, auditable planning processes.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience supporting FP&A, finance systems, or budgeting and financial analysis processes.
Hands-on experience with planning and results-analysis platforms such as Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP S/4HANA, or similar tools.
Experience auditing, managing the balance of, and validating planning and actuals data across multiple systems.
Ability to analyze and resolve forecasting and reporting discrepancies and explain them clearly in finance-related terms.
Understanding of FP&A processes, including budgeting, forecasting, budget deviation assessment, and management reporting.
Experience supporting planning-to-ERP integrations and understanding how upstream data affects forecasts.
Proficiency with automation or data-preparation tools and advanced Excel for FP&A analysis and controls.
Ability to manage competing priorities during critical planning and close timelines.
Effective communication skills, including the ability to translate system behavior into FP&A-relevant insights.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Accounting, Business, Technology, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to global FP&A operations or COE models.

Responsibilities

Support day-to-day operations of FP&A-critical systems, including Anaplan, SAP S/4HANA, and SAC, to maintain stable planning and reporting cycles.
Partner with FP&A teams during budgeting, forecasting, and outlook cycles to support data readiness, validation, and issue resolution.
Audit and reconcile data end to end between planning, ERP, and reporting systems to ensure forecast and actuals alignment.
Investigate plan-versus-actual, forecast-versus-forecast, and reporting variances; identify root causes involving data, mappings, or system behavior.
Validate planning master data, hierarchies, drivers, and assumptions for consistency across models and reports.
Support management and executive reporting by ensuring data accuracy, timing, and transparency.
Use automation, analytics, and advanced spreadsheet tools to streamline reconciliations, variance analysis, and validation checks and reduce manual effort.
Support user acceptance testing (UAT) for planning model changes, system upgrades, and new integrations affecting FP&A processes.
Maintain validation reports, reconciliation frameworks, and documentation to support auditability and repeatable planning cycles.
Collaborate with Accounting, IT, and data teams to resolve integration, timing, and data-quality issues affecting forecasts and reports.
Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on forecast accuracy, planning efficiency, and data trust.