Functional Analyst, Finance Technology

Sysco

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Collaborate with Senior Functional Analyst, Product Owner, Business Partners, Product Team, Engineering, and Cross Functional Teams (Finance, Accounting, FP&A, External Reporting, Tax), to design, optimize, and scale finance systems and solutions. Serve as a partner to business teams in translating business needs into platform capabilities and ensure finance systems are maintained to meet business requirements. This is a hybrid position requiring an on-site presence 3 to 4 days per week. Please note that the number of days on-site can increase based on business needs

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, computer science, or equivalent for the specific role’s responsibilities
3-5 years of experience in finance, financial systems technology supporting finance functions.
Hands-on experience with enterprise finance systems (Workday, Microsoft BI, SAP BPC, Microsoft D365)
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand processes around consolidations, planning, finance analytics, and external and internal reporting.
Proven ability to write clear functional requirements and collaborate with engineering teams
Strong understanding of data modeling and integration across finance platforms.
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement are required across global teams.

Nice To Haves

Strong understanding of Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban & other agile frameworks
Demonstrated “agile-development” mindset with strong customer-focus & results-orientation
Knowledge of automation tools, AI-enabled finance solutions.
Ability to excel in a fast-paced agile environment, adapt to shifting urgencies, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines

Responsibilities

Responsible for collaborating with the team to understand and propose solutions to configure package software or custom software development
Provides functional design support for finance technology solutions across transactional accounting, finance, tax, FP&A, and reporting.
Convert business requirements into product configuration requirements, maintain functional and technical documentation, including user stories, and other Agile artifacts.
Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure solutions are scalable and compliant with Sysco’s standards and policies.
Ensures design and development standards are being followed to minimize rework; promotes only quality-tested code and does it frequently
Provides subject matter expertise support for issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and ensure continues optimization and automation with AI/ML solutions.
Reviews required documentation to communicate information to deployment, maintenance, service, and business teams