Senior Analyst Finance Systems Implementation

A South African financial technology company that digitizes commerce and drives financial inclusion across Southern Africa providing transactional accounts lending insurance merchant card acquiring cash management and alternative digital payments via its ecosystem is seeking a Senior Analyst who will serve as the functional-technical bridge between Finance IT and external implementation partners across strategic finance tools (ERP Procurement Financial Consolidation).

Responsibilities:

• Liaison: Act as the primary interface between implementation partners internal IT and finance users through design build test and deployment phases.

• Translation: Convert business requirements into technical specs for partners/IT and translate technical constraints into clear terms for business stakeholders.

• Solution Validation: Review proposed architecture designs and data models to flag risks or misalignment before production.

• Conflict Resolution: Facilitate trade-offs and escalate conflicts between technical feasibility and business needs.

• Architecture and Data Flows: Maintain oversight of system architecture and end-to-end data flows (e.g. Procurement ERP Consolidation Reporting) to ensure data integrity.

• Integrations: Partner with IT on integration design (APIs middleware batch/real-time flows) without coding them directly.

• Testing Management: Lead UAT and test planning by defining business scenarios validating data outcomes and coordinating key-user testing.

• Documentation: Maintain complete accessible functional specs process flows data dictionaries and integration maps.

• Change Management: Support training and change efforts to help users adapt to new system behaviors and processes.

• Project Oversight and Hypercare: Track technical build risks/dependencies and support post-go-live hypercare continuous improvement and enhancement identification.

• Education: Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting IT / Information Systems Engineering or a related field.

• Experience: 3 years directly involved in finance system implementations (ERP Procurement or Consolidation) covering at least one full project phase (design build test or deploy).

• Cross-Functional Experience: Proven experience bridging communications between business IT and consulting partners.

• Platforms: Exposure to enterprise tools like SAP Oracle Sage MS Dynamics (ERP); Coupa Ariba Ivalua (Procurement); or OneStream Hyperion SAP BPC/Group Reporting (Consolidation).

• Consulting Background: Prior experience with Big 4 or major systems implementation consulting partners.

• Niche Systems / Cloud: Exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data architecture or functional exposure to Anaplan / Fluence (planning and consolidation).

• Finance Knowledge: Deep understanding of core processes (R2R P2P Consolidation Reporting) within enterprise software.

• Systems and Data Literacy: Ability to read architecture diagrams trace data elements end-to-end and evaluate integration specs.

• Querying and Project Tools: Working knowledge of SQL (or data query tools) for independent data validation; familiarity with Agile/Hybrid delivery methodologies.

Benefits:

Competitive salary based on experience (salary can potentially be more based on experience/skills)

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