Business Analyst - Finance

Job Purpose:

Modifications to the Department's computing assets are necessary to align with the Florida PALM solution and are essential to the continuity of FDOT business. The selected candidate will be assigned initially to analyzing and documenting the Department's payroll distribution process and the Florida PALM project's

reengineering of journal vouchering processes impact on critical business functions, supporting business processes, and related computing assets. Additional focus will be on analyzing related financial planning and analysis systems and dependent business processes owned by the Department and assisting in re-engineering in areas impacted by the Florida PALM Standardized Business Process Model and redeveloped interfaces. As part of this effort, a fit-gap determination must be made comparing the Department's computing assets functional scope with the Florida PALM Standardized Business Process Model to recommend those assets that may be decommissioned and addressed with the functionality within the Florida PALM solution.

The selected candidate will be given access to existing documentation and staff and be required to identify functional gaps, develop, and document business rules and processes supporting critical functions. Documentation will be completed with advice from Department staff in a desk procedure template or other formats conducive to communicating the information. The analyst filling this position will be assigned to the Department s disbursements functions.

About the Candidate:

Qualifications

Education - Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, finance, or accounting is preferred though work experience in these fields can be substituted for the educational requirement.

Required Experience

This position requires the following experience and/or knowledge:

1. Candidate must have a minimum of 5 years' experience working in accounting or finance OR experience working as a business analyst supporting the financial operations of an organization.

Job Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

1. Prior knowledge of core financial operations of an organization including chart of accounts usage, generally accepting accounting principles, purchasing, payroll, and budget.

2. Prior experience developing and analyzing financial reports

3. Proven ability to analyze financial data and perform reconciliations across multiple systems and data sources

4. Knowledge of financial management best practices which can be translated to transportation financial practices.

5. Ability to produce legible and complete functional documentation in a way that thoroughly captures business processes and inputs/outputs of the applications.

6. Ability to analyze and accurately and completely define processes and workflows to design efficient information solutions, including missing or duplicate functionality in existing applications.

7. Ability to work effectively with users and a project team, to identify and document requirements for the maintenance, enhancement, or development of computer application systems, including technical overviews and context diagrams.

8. Ability to develop and manage business and information systems technical documentation in accordance with the Department's standards

9. Skill in testing complex applications and interpreting whether requirements and designs were met I in the product.

10. Ability to work effectively with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, and Technical Architects to build efficient, viable solutions in the maintenance of business applications utilizing all established Departmental standards.

11. Ability to prepare computer program test plans and to create test databases and test environments.

12. Ability to interpret and communicate technical information related to computer programming and data processing, both verbally and in writing.

13. Advanced skills with Microsoft products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.

14. Experience working on accounting and financial computing applications and monitoring complex interfaces with external systems.

15. Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies and practices.

16. Knowledge of the SCRUM Framework.

Preferred KSA s

17. Skill in performing QA reviews and provide valuable feedback in determining that standards are met and that documents are complete and comprehensive.

18. Knowledge of legacy technology such as mainframe and Cobol.

19. Skill in data conversion techniques, data cleansing approaches and validating data relationships.

20. Basic knowledge of Universal Modeling Language (UML) and supporting enterprise tools to document business processes and data lineage, collect requirements, develop test scripts, and manage traceability.

Primary Job, Duties and Tasks

1. Participate in efforts to define the impact on Department computing assets from the implementation of Florida PALM standard business process model, chart of accounts, and PeopleSoft solution. Produce deliverables including, but not limited to business process diagrams and narratives, business requirements, program specifications, and supporting business processes, data conversion, technical impact analyses, and testing scripts.

2. Use subject matter expertise, industry methodologies and best practices, and automated tools to analyze and make recommendations on behalf of the Department for required changes to complex financial-related business processes to align with the Florida PALM solution.

3. Detail data element inputs and outputs for Department computing assets interfacing with Department of Financial Services FLAIR. Inputs may include, but not limited to, manual data entry, direct access via scripting solutions, and batch uploads. Outputs can include data extracts, outgoing interfaces, and reports.

4. Prepare specifications to communicate Department specific functional requirements for the FPST transition efforts and address dependencies with other interfacing computing assets and external stakeholder interfaces. Oversee the development of testing strategies, data scenarios, and test plans to ensure functional requirements are addressed.

5. Assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed to support ongoing FPST efforts in the enterprise environment.

6. Work with functional and enterprise system support staff during technical assessments of the Department's internal financial-related systems and interfaces from/to the Florida PALM solution.

7. Document business cases and feasibility studies. Facilitate work sessions to elicit and prioritize remediation requirements. Identify any functionality seen as needed, but missing, in Department maintained systems. Include analysis of outstanding remediation requests.

8. Translate high level business requirements into detailed business documents and/or functional specifications.

9. Assist with User Acceptance Testing and Florida PALM cycle testing; Confer with Central Office and District personnel to ensure Department financial-related systems are performing as required.

10. Evaluate critical information gathered from multiple resources. Summarize detailed data into executive level formats as well as breaking down aggregate information into meaningful pieces.

11. Develop standardized desk procedures that include the purpose, prerequisites, process flows and narratives of business processes.

12. Help manage user stories, the project backlog, and sprint backlogs.

13. Prepare proposed business rules, develop, monitor, and implement knowledge transfer activities.

14. Participate in SCRUM meetings including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives.

About ArnAmy, Inc.:

ArnAmy, Inc. is a leading information technology consulting and software development firm in Tallahassee, FL since 2007. ArnAmy has been providing high quality services to clients and prides itself in implementing dependable solutions to ensure client's success. ArnAmy is formed and led by principle centered leaders with Subject Matter Expertise in all disciplines of Information Technology. Company has proven record of 100% successful projects and 100% satisfied clients, and employees. We are inviting bright professionals with integrity and have passion to achieve higher goals to join our award winning (Tallahassee s BEST in IT Solutions 2017 &2016) excellent and talented team.

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