Financial Reporting Analyst Elevate Initiative (Finance & Records)

The Financial Reporting Analyst supports the Elevate initiatives transformation of financial reporting by designing validating and maintaining reporting solutions across Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP Fusion Data Intelligence and other analytics platforms aligned to the Elevate Financial Reporting Strategy. The analyst plays a key role in sustaining the Elevate reporting governance modelincluding reporting inventory management compliance with Church financial reporting standards data lineage documentation and alignment to enterprise reporting principles.

This role partners closely with functional workstreams IT teams deployment teams and business stakeholders to ensure highquality validated and consistently governed financial reporting across departments and areas.

Key Responsibilities

1. Reporting Design & Development

• Build and enhance financial reports using Oracle Fusion Cloud (OTBI Financial Reporting Center Smart View) and Fusion Data Intelligence in alignment with Elevate technical standards and platform decisions.
• Translate business requirements into reporting specifications including metrics hierarchies drill paths and security rules.
• Ensure designs adhere to established data flows reporting layers and target-state reporting architecture.

2. Reporting Governance & Compliance

• Maintain and curate the Financial Reporting Inventory including metadata lineage system-of-origin identification and use cases.
• Ensure all reports comply with Church financial reporting standards and Elevate Financial Reporting Governance principles.
• Participate in governance reviews approvals and version control processes.

3. Data Validation & Quality Assurance

• Validate report outputs by tracing values back to Oracle subledgers the general ledger and FDI/FAW datasets.
• Support testing cycles (SIT UAT regression) for reporting functionality related to Elevate releases.
• Investigate data issues performing root-cause analysis with data engineering and functional SMEs.

4. Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with finance stakeholders departmental reporting leads Regional Process Leads and functional workstreams to capture requirements and confirm solution accuracy.
• Support end users through training documentation Oracle Guided Learning (OGL) content contributions and change management activities.

5. Documentation & Standards

• Create and maintain documentation such as:
  • Report specifications
  • Data flow diagrams
  • Validation rules
  • Reporting governance review artifacts

6. Reporting Transformation Support

• Contribute to Elevates shift to modern reporting platforms (FDI/FAW) supporting dataset design discussions and participating in design decisions related to analytics structures.
• Identify opportunities to rationalize legacy reports and convert them to standardized enterprise solutions.

• Four years of experience in financial reporting accounting analytics or financial systems.
• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Information Systems Data Analytics or related field.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud reporting tools (OTBI FRC Smart View) and/or enterprise BI platforms.
• Strong understanding of GL subledger accounting and financial consolidation concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into structured reporting solutions.
• Experience with data validation reconciliations and financial data quality practices.

• Excellent communication skills especially in documenting reporting requirements and findings.

Preferred

• Experience with Fusion Analytics Warehouse (FAW) or Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI).
• Exposure to large-scale ERP transformations (e.g. multiphase multiworkstream initiatives).
• Background in audit controls or policy-driven reporting frameworks.

• Experience supporting training and user adoption.

Competencies

• Analytical thinking with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a structured governance environment.
• Skilled in collaborating across technical and functional teams.
• Ability to juggle multiple reporting workstreams and deadlines.
• Commitment to maintaining consistency accuracy and data stewardship.