Financial Reporting Analyst - Elevate Initiative (Finance & Records)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints•Salt Lake, UT

15h

About The Position

The Financial Reporting Analyst supports the Elevate initiative’s transformation of financial reporting by designing, validating, and maintaining reporting solutions across Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Fusion Data Intelligence, and other analytics platforms aligned to the Elevate Financial Reporting Strategy. The analyst plays a key role in sustaining the Elevate reporting governance model—including reporting inventory management, compliance with Church financial reporting standards, data lineage documentation, and alignment to enterprise reporting principles. This role partners closely with functional workstreams, IT teams, deployment teams, and business stakeholders to ensure high‑quality, validated, and consistently governed financial reporting across departments and areas.

Requirements

Four+ years of experience in financial reporting, accounting analytics, or financial systems.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field.
Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud reporting tools (OTBI, FRC, Smart View) and/or enterprise BI platforms.
Strong understanding of GL, subledger accounting, and financial consolidation concepts.
Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into structured reporting solutions.
Experience with data validation, reconciliations, and financial data quality practices.
Excellent communication skills, especially in documenting reporting requirements and findings.
Analytical thinking with strong attention to detail.
Ability to work in a structured governance environment.
Skilled in collaborating across technical and functional teams.
Ability to juggle multiple reporting workstreams and deadlines.
Commitment to maintaining consistency, accuracy, and data stewardship.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Fusion Analytics Warehouse (FAW) or Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI).
Exposure to large-scale ERP transformations (e.g., multi‑phase, multi‑workstream initiatives).
Background in audit, controls, or policy-driven reporting frameworks.
Experience supporting training and user adoption.

Responsibilities

Reporting Design & Development Build and enhance financial reports using Oracle Fusion Cloud (OTBI, Financial Reporting Center, Smart View) and Fusion Data Intelligence in alignment with Elevate technical standards and platform decisions. Translate business requirements into reporting specifications including metrics, hierarchies, drill paths, and security rules. Ensure designs adhere to established data flows, reporting layers, and target-state reporting architecture.
Reporting Governance & Compliance Maintain and curate the Financial Reporting Inventory, including metadata, lineage, system-of-origin identification, and use cases. Ensure all reports comply with Church financial reporting standards and Elevate Financial Reporting Governance principles. Participate in governance reviews, approvals, and version control processes.
Data Validation & Quality Assurance Validate report outputs by tracing values back to Oracle subledgers, the general ledger, and FDI/FAW datasets. Support testing cycles (SIT, UAT, regression) for reporting functionality related to Elevate releases. Investigate data issues, performing root-cause analysis with data engineering and functional SMEs.
Stakeholder Engagement Collaborate with finance stakeholders, departmental reporting leads, Regional Process Leads, and functional workstreams to capture requirements and confirm solution accuracy. Support end users through training, documentation, Oracle Guided Learning (OGL) content contributions and change management activities.
Documentation & Standards Create and maintain documentation such as: Report specifications Data flow diagrams Validation rules Reporting governance review artifacts
Reporting Transformation Support Contribute to Elevate’s shift to modern reporting platforms (FDI/FAW), supporting dataset design discussions and participating in design decisions related to analytics structures. Identify opportunities to rationalize legacy reports and convert them to standardized enterprise solutions.

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