Business Analyst

Description

You will join the business team in the financial systems group at the FISA-OPA accounting entity, reporting to the FISA-OPA accounting entity manager or the deputy entity director, and you will be expected to use your own judgment with wide latitude.

The role supports the accounting side of the City's Financial Management System (FMS3), with the main focus on the parts of the application that handle accounting and disbursement functions.

Responsibilities

• Look into software problems and defects raised by business users and others, then resolve them.
• Analyze business requirements and document them, with emphasis on FMS3 accounting functions.
• Study complex programming specifications and produce structure charts or invocation diagrams from them.
• Partner with technical analysts to investigate problems, find and deliver fixes, and review code when needed to estimate the effort for changes.
• Test software against specifications and log any defects you find.
• Help business users process business events.
• Run simulations of how business events are processed.
• Keep management and others informed about issues and project status.

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience as an analyst with accounting or budgeting software and business processes.
• Extensive experience with planning, process, and analysis or reporting tools such as Oracle, SQL, Crystal Reports, MS Access, and Excel.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including analysis, problem re-creation, and close attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to work independently with little direction and to meet tight deadlines under pressure.
• Proven project management experience.
• Deep knowledge of the full application development and deployment life cycle.
• Strong organization and follow-through to track development status, report on it, and resolve the issues uncovered.
• Experience in a large organization with complex accounting, budgeting, procurement, and purchasing processes.
• Proven record of developing and delivering enterprise-wide applications and coordinating their deployment.
• Preferred: experience with FMS/3 Accounting or FMS Budgeting.
• Also acceptable: experience with another analogous enterprise-wide management solution, such as PeopleSoft or SAP.
• Either a bachelor's degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, or a related field plus four years of satisfactory full-time experience in information technology service management, process management, or operations.
• Or a bachelor's degree from an accredited college plus eight years of satisfactory full-time experience in information technology service management, process management, or operations.
• Or education and/or experience equivalent to either of the above.

Conditions

Location: 5 Manhattan West, New York, NY.

Hours: 35 hours per week, daytime.

Job title: IT Service Management Specialist, job ID 95713, posting P-543.

Apply through the Jobs NYC website at quoting job ID 804540. Only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic.

Benefits

• Health insurance and a pension plan.
• Deferred Compensation Plan with 457, 401K, and Roth IRA options.
• Pre-tax commuter benefit and pre-tax flexible spending accounts.
• Prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage through District Council 37, Local 2627, the union for this title, along with other programs.