Sysco
Sysco

Senior Functional Analyst, Finance Technology

HOUSTON, TX, US • Posted 10 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
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Skills

  • Software Development
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Modeling
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Dashboard
  • Decision Support
  • IDP
  • Invoices
  • Extraction
  • Financial Statements
  • Workflow
  • Functional Design
  • Taxes
  • FP&A
  • Technical Writing
  • User Stories
  • Issue Resolution
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Optimization
  • Backup
  • UPS
  • Sprint
  • Documentation
  • Mentorship
  • FAS
  • Training
  • Computer Science
  • Financial Software
  • Microsoft BI
  • SAP BPC
  • Microsoft
  • Analytical Skill
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Problem Solving
  • Reporting
  • Functional Requirements
  • Data Modeling
  • Communication
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Financial Modeling
  • Forecasting
  • Budget
  • Analytics
  • Accounting
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • SAP
  • Workday
  • Oracle
  • Robotic Process Automation
  • Document Processing
  • Scrum
  • Lean Methodology
  • Extreme Programming
  • Kanban
  • Customer Focus
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Finance
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Agile
  • Management
  • Teamwork
  • Collaboration

Summary

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

JOB SUMMARY:

Collaborate with 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Responsible for collaborating with the team to understand and propose solutions to configure package software or custom software development
  • Drive AI-Driven Financial Insights, Automation & Digital Finance Transformation
  • Partner with Data/AI teams to leverage predictive analytics, machine learning, and generative AI for forecasting, demand modeling, and variance analysis.
  • Use AI/ML to detect anomalies, optimize cost drivers, identify business risks, and improve forecast accuracy.
  • Support the design of AIpowered dashboards, copilots, and decisionsupport tools for Finance.
  • Lead automation initiatives across FP&A, accounting, and reporting
  • Automate data refresh, financial consolidations, variance explanations, and recurring reporting tasks.
  • Implement intelligent document processing (IDP) for invoice extraction, financial statement ingestion, and reconciliations.
  • Improve process efficiency through workflow automation and standardization of finance processes.
  • 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.
  • Acts as a key stakeholder or backup for Product Owner in the daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to update progress, highlight, and resolve impediments
  • Reviews required documentation to communicate information to deployment, maintenance, service, and business teams
  • Provides mentorship to junior FAs and BAs through Community of Practice and other informal forums, and may supervise FAs in a
  • Lead training of the software package to key stakeholders as required

Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, computer science, or equivalent for the specific role's responsibilities

Mandatory Experience:
  • 5-8 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.

Preferred Experience:

  • Strong financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, and analysis skills.


  • Hands-on experience with automation or analytics tools in finance and accounting processes.


  • Understanding of AI/ML concepts (predictive analytics, LLM-based copilots, NLP, anomaly detection).


  • Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP systems (SAP, Workday, Oracle, etc.).


  • Background in RPA for finance, intelligent document processing, or automated reconciliations.


  • Experience leading digital transformation or finance modernization initiatives.


Skills and Competencies:
  • 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
  • Highly proficient in teamwork and collaboration skills
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: RTX1d8578
  • Position Id: 91767677
  • Posted 10 hours ago
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