Senior Finance Business Systems Analyst
Senior Finance Business Systems Analyst
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Overview
NRDC is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization. We use law science and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planets wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air clean water and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of Americas bedrock environmental laws including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. Today our team of more than 700 lawyers scientists economists policy advocates communications experts and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing; Chicago; New Delhi; New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; and Washington D.C.
Position Summary
We are seeking a skilled Senior Business Systems Analyst to join our team and support the co implementation and optimization of Microsoft Dynamic Business Central as our finance and accounting system; as well as Coupa as our business spend management system over the next 18 months. This individual will work in tandem with leadership to make key decisions on system design features and segmentation with respect to the financial accounting systems. Additionally this role will serve as an intermediary between key project stakeholders and the external implementation partner. The role will also be responsible for process documentation creation of user guides and training materials as well as leading user training sessions as needed.
Beyond the financial system implementation the Senior Business Systems Analyst will serve as a point of contact for the internal accounting and finance teams for system fixes and troubleshooting. Following implementation this role will maintain data integrations manage organizational segmentation updates assist with system administration and support ongoing technical projects.
The position you are applying forispart of the bargaining unit represented by The Washington Baltimore News Guild (WBNG /The NewsguildCWA Local 32035.
Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the following essential functions:
- Financial System Expertise & Support: Serve as a subject matter expert for financial systems and procurement modules ensuring efficient operation alignment with business needs and adherence to internal controls and security protocols. Provide ongoing user support troubleshooting and issue resolution.
- Business Analysis & System Enhancements: Work closely with finance IT and key stakeholders to gather and document business requirements translating them into technical specifications for system enhancements configurations and integrations.
- System Configuration & Workflow Optimization: Design configure and maintain finance workflows automation rules and approval processes to streamline operations reduce manual intervention and improve efficiency across finance and procurement functions.
- Process Improvement & Maintenance: Continuously assess and refine financial system processes identifying opportunities for automation simplification and integration. Conduct routine system maintenance to support organizational growth and change.
- Testing & Quality Assurance: Lead system testing including unit and user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate system upgrades new features and process changes ensuring workflow integrity and functionality.
- Reporting & Data Analytics: Work with finance teams to develop reports dashboards (Tableau Excel) KPIs and analytics to support decisionmaking monitor system performance and enhance financial insights.
- Training & Documentation: Develop and maintain user guides training materials and process documentation. Conduct training sessions for key stakeholders to ensure effective system usage across departments.
- Collaboration & CrossFunctional Support: Partner with internal teams software vendors external consultants and the IT team to implement robust integrated cloudbased solutions. Serve as a point of escalation between the Accounting & Finance department and other teams.
The above list of duties is not comprehensive but generally demonstrates the types of matters under this positions responsibility. Other duties may be assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Education & Experience:
- Bachelors degree in a relevant IT field or proven experience/certification required.
- Additional education in finance accounting or business administration is a plus.
- 7 years experience in a finance/business system analyst or system administrator role.
- 3 years experience with technical project management.
- Prior experience implementing Coupa as a business spend management system.
- Experience with Tableau data sets reports dashboards and data visualization tools.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including Macros Pivot Tables XLOOKUP COUNT/SUMIFS Booleans and concatenation formulas.
- Experience managing system integrations (experience with Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Coupa Tableau Snowflake and Adaptive Insights is a plus).
- Experience with querying relational databases is a plus (i.e. SQL).
Skills Abilities Competencies
- Strong ability to connect and build relationships demonstrating excellent collaboration skills and crosscultural communication.
- Analytical and problemsolving skills to guide Accounting & Finance leaders in decisionmaking regarding system design and usage.
- Ability to investigate root causes research potential solutions and effectively communicate best options to Accounting & Finance leaders.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to manipulate large amounts of data
- Strong writing skills with ability to create clear and detailed process documentation
- Unwavering professional and ethical standards with a strong sense of responsibility and ownership
- Ability to travel to NRDC U.S. based offices approximately 1015 annually
- Commitment to NRDCs mission values and DEI principles.
NRDC is committed to advancing diversity equity and inclusion both in our work and in our workplace. We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planets most pressing environmental problems and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically underrepresented in the environmental movement.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employmenton the basis ofrace color religion gender gender identity or expression marital status sexual orientation national origin citizenship age disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.Pursuant tothe San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
NRDC operates under a hybrid work model. Employeesare required tocome to the office 8 days per month.
As a sciencebased organization NRDC aims to do our part to helpcontainthe COVID19 public health crisis. For the sake of health safety and equity we ask that people be vaccinated unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation or other exemptionin accordance withstate and local law. We consider a person to be vaccinated two weeks after receiving one full course of a CDCapproved vaccine.In accordance withstate or local law new hires will be asked to attest to vaccination those wishing to do so may request medical or religious accommodations or other exemptions via NRDC Employee Relations. NRDC treats all vaccinerelated data confidentially in keeping with local state and federal laws.
If you experience technical problems while applying or if you are a person with a disability and needassistanceapplying online please reach out to iCIMS Customer Careat.
FormoreaboutNRDCvisitwww.nrdc.
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