Financial Business Analyst

Green River College•Main Campus - 12401 SE 320th Street Auburn, WA

About The Position

The Financial Business Analyst provides functional, analytical, and technical support for Green River College’s financial operations and enterprise systems, with primary responsibility for ctcLink/PeopleSoft Finance (FSCM) and Student Finance. The role serves as a liaison among Finance, Budget Managers, Student Affairs, Financial Aid, Human Resources, Information Technology, and the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC). It supports financial processes, system functionality, data integrity, security, analysis, and uninterrupted transaction flow. The position combines financial and business-process analysis, systems support, reporting, security administration, data governance, and operational support. It evaluates complex business and system issues, translates requirements into system and process solutions, develops reports and queries, supports reconciliations and audits, and collaborates across functional areas to improve financial operations. It also participates in college and statewide ctcLink governance activities and serves as a Local Security Administrator and functional security resource for the ctcLink Finance pillar. Green River College is a multi-campus college in Washington serving students across academic transfer, professional-technical, adult basic education, applied bachelor’s, Running Start, workforce retraining, international, English-language learning, and continuing education programs. The college states a commitment to being an anti-racist institution and making social and economic justice, equity, and inclusion high priorities. The position is based in an office setting with frequent interruptions and requires prolonged desk/computer work, frequent repetitive arm, hand, and finger motions, frequent computer and screen use, regular and predictable attendance, and potentially carrying, lifting, or moving equipment or supplies weighing up to 25 pounds. The stated schedule is Monday through Friday.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.
Three to five years of progressively responsible experience in financial analysis, accounting, enterprise financial systems support, business analysis, or a related area.
Experience supporting financial operations in a complex, multi-fund, multi-department, or similarly complex organizational environment.
Demonstrated understanding of financial business processes, including budgeting, financial transactions, reconciliations, reporting, and internal controls.
Experience working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
Experience analyzing business requirements and translating them into system, reporting, configuration, or process solutions.
Advanced spreadsheet skills and experience analyzing large and complex datasets.
Strong analytical, research, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with attention to accuracy and detail.
Ability to communicate technical and financial concepts clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Ability to work independently and collaborate across organizational and functional boundaries.
Ability to understand complex, interdependent ERP configurations and assess their impacts on users and business operations.
Ability to distinguish among security, system configuration, business-process, workflow, data, and training issues when troubleshooting.
Ability to evaluate access using least-privilege and segregation-of-duties principles while supporting effective operations.
Ability to analyze roles, security dependencies, workflow relationships, query access, and secondary system configurations.
Strong customer-service orientation and ability to support users with varying levels of technical expertise.
Ability to translate complex technical or financial concepts into clear, actionable guidance.
Ability to develop effective working relationships across financial, administrative, technical, and academic/student-service functions.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-volume, transaction-oriented environment.
Ability to exercise sound independent judgment on complex system, financial, security, and business-process issues.
Ability to sit for long periods at a desk/computer workstation and perform frequent repetitive arm, hand, and finger motions.
Ability to maintain regular and predictable attendance.
May need to carry, lift, or move equipment or supplies up to 25 pounds.

Nice To Haves

ctcLink/PeopleSoft experience; this is strongly preferred.
Experience supporting PeopleSoft FSCM and/or Student Financials.
Experience administering or analyzing ERP security, user access, roles, permissions, or workflow.
Experience with ctcLink Local Security Administration or PeopleSoft Security Administration.
Experience creating and analyzing PeopleSoft queries and financial reports.
Experience with user acceptance testing, ERP upgrades, system implementations, or system-improvement projects.
Experience supporting security audits, financial audits, internal controls, or segregation-of-duties reviews.
Experience in Washington’s community and technical college system or another complex public-sector or higher-education environment.
Experience participating in data governance, ERP governance, or cross-functional systems governance.
Experience using Microsoft 365 tools such as Excel, SharePoint, Lists, Planner, Power Automate, Teams, or Outlook for process tracking, reporting, workflow improvement, documentation, or communications.

Responsibilities

Support and maintain ctcLink/PeopleSoft Finance and Student Finance functionality, including troubleshooting, testing updates, evaluating system changes, and implementing enhancements.
Monitor and support financial transaction workflows, including approvals, routing, and budget checking.
Analyze financial and administrative processes and recommend improvements to efficiency, controls, data quality, and manual-workaround reduction.
Work with Finance staff, department leaders, and stakeholders to identify business requirements and translate them into system configurations, reporting, procedures, or process improvements.
Diagnose issues involving security, business-process configuration, workflow, data, training, query access, user preferences, or system functionality, and resolve or escalate them appropriately.
Collaborate with Human Resources, Student Affairs, Financial Aid, Finance, and Information Technology on cross-pillar dependencies and service delivery.
Develop and maintain financial reports, PeopleSoft queries, dashboards, and other analytical tools.
Support reconciliations by reviewing transactions, researching and resolving discrepancies, and verifying system records against supporting documentation.
Participate in SBCTC data governance activities and provide leadership for internal Finance and Student Finance data governance efforts.
Plan and participate in user acceptance testing, upgrades, patches, system-improvement initiatives, and implementations of new functionality.
Develop and maintain business-process, system-procedure, security, support, and internal-control documentation.
Support internal and external audits by gathering documentation, researching transactions and security configurations, and explaining financial-system processes and controls.
Maintain knowledge of ctcLink/PeopleSoft functionality, statewide security practices, governance decisions, and system changes affecting college financial operations.
Serve as Local Security Administrator and functional security resource for the Finance/FSCM pillar, administering locally managed ctcLink security in accordance with college and SBCTC requirements.
Analyze access requests, including appropriate roles, permission dependencies, User Preference Definitions, Process Groups, Requestor profiles, approval-related configuration, Business Unit limitations, query access, and secondary security requirements.
Evaluate security requests in light of job responsibilities, existing access, segregation of duties, least-privilege principles, workflow needs, and operational impacts.
Coordinate security changes requiring SBCTC action, other Local Security Administrators, or cross-pillar involvement.
Communicate completed security changes and relevant impacts to employees, supervisors, functional owners, and other stakeholders.
Maintain security requests, approvals, configuration records, supporting documentation, queries, procedures, and institutional knowledge for operational and audit purposes.
Review Finance security after personnel, supervisory, departmental, or organizational changes to identify required access, workflow, approval, and configuration changes.
Conduct or coordinate periodic FSCM security reviews and audits and help resolve identified security or access-control issues.
Monitor relevant SBCTC security guidance, ctcLink governance, system changes, and security initiatives, and incorporate applicable changes into local practices.
Develop guidance, job aids, training materials, and communications about system procedures, financial processes, security expectations, and related changes.
Perform other job duties as assigned.