Financial Systems Analyst

Description
Financial Business Intelligence and Analytics

Provide in depth information systems analysis and data mining capability to enable extraction of information and building of analysis and dashboard that will inform financial reporting and decisions.

Financial Information Systems

Leads from finance perspective development, implementation, and administration of the organization’s financial information systems.
Solve business problems using information technology by identifying potential solutions and assessing them for technical and business suitability
Researches and document financial record-keeping and reporting requirements and ensures that systems are modified to meet these requirements.
Establishes best practices for financial systems use and ensures that these practices are used throughout the group.
Manages financial information systems training
Proactively identify and propose scalable application features and functionality that improves accounting process and overall user experience.
Closely work with other Finance and Accounting sections on diligently troubleshooting and resolving systems issues
Consolidate all system issues that would otherwise have a materials impact on the integrity and accuracy of financial information
Understand and articulate the operations of all financial information systems ensuring system manuals and training guides are in place.
Ensuring that any adhoc reports not published or available from the front end are provided to users on a timely basis
Assist in generation of bulk reports especially during Audit through query running using SQL and other tools provided
Monitoring of system suspense accounts

Technology budgets and spend

Drive business growth by optimizing IT spending and investments to align to business strategy.
Track and report technology investments across business operations, incremental business change, and business innovation.
Understand and analyze the long-term total cost of ownership of innovation investments
Identify opportunities for digitization, build a business case for each and define the needed investments and cost savings
Allocating technology cost to drive value generation and finding equilibrium between bottom-line operational efficiencies and top-line revenue growth.

Job knowledge and experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Minimum 3 years in a similar capacity
Knowledge in computer applications for data mining, data modelling, data visualization and data manipulation languages
Structured Query Language
Oracle Database
Oracle Business Intelligence
Microsoft Power BI
Knowledge in Data Warehouse concepts
Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
Advanced formulas and functions
Microsoft visual basic for applications
Ability to analyze, model and interpret data.
Financial data analysis and reporting

Skills

Problem solving skills
Written and verbal communication
Ability to work in a team
Presentation skills
Attention to detail
Investigative and inquisitive mind

Apply via :

equitybank.taleo.net