Business Systems Analyst Finance Systems

eBay•Austin, TX

About The Position

The Business Systems Analyst – Finance Systems supports the accuracy, reliability, and usability of eBay’s financial planning and reporting ecosystem, with a strong FP&A orientation. The role works across Anaplan, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) to provide Finance collaborators with trusted data for planning, forecasting, and performance analysis. The position supports the Finance Insights & Technology organization, which partners with FP&A, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and Technology teams to modernize financial planning, improve data transparency, and enable faster decision-making. The analyst helps maintain stable planning and reporting cycles, validates and reconciles data across systems, resolves reporting issues, and contributes to improvements in forecast accuracy, planning efficiency, and data trust.

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.
Proven experience auditing, balancing, 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.
Solid 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 Center of Excellence (COE) models.

Responsibilities

Support day-to-day operations of FP&A-critical systems, including Anaplan, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP Analytics Cloud, to ensure stable planning and reporting cycles.
Partner with FP&A teams during budgeting, forecasting, and outlook cycles to support data readiness, validation, and issue resolution.
Perform end-to-end audits and reconciliations between planning, ERP, and reporting systems to ensure forecast and actuals alignment.
Investigate and explain plan-versus-actual, forecast-versus-forecast, and reporting variances, identifying root causes related to 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 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.