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SalaryLighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their IT Business Analyst (Financial Systems) role! This is a 6 month contract-to-hire position. The selected candidate must be able to work on-site 2 days/week in Mississauga or London, Ontario.
Position Overview
This is an analyst role requiring both a strong hands-on IT Software Implementation background and a strong Corporate Accounting background. This person will be the expert working with both the Technology Team and Business Stakeholders.
What You'll Be Doing:
• Serve as a liaison between the business and the development team to gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into functional specifications for Financial and other Business systems.
• Analyze and document existing business processes, workflows, and systems to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure Anaplan Canadian models align with best practices outlined and defined by the Technical Delivery Team for North America.
• Oversee technical activities related to Anaplan model building, ensuring timely completion and that code is accurately delivered.
• Actively participate in the creation of test plans/scripts (QA, UAT), aid with the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and execute Quality Assurance (QA) tests.
• Identify, create, and facilitate process design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis.
• Collaborate with project managers, Technology developers, cross-functional teams, and other stakeholders to create and maintain issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules, project summaries and updates.
• Conduct end-user training sessions to educate users on effectively using and maximizing the benefits of UKG HR and Anaplan software packages.
• Assist in Master Data activities such as cleansing, migration and integration, ensuring seamless data flow between systems.
• Stay current on the latest software revisions and feature releases for Anaplan.
• Provide elevated Tier 2 & 3 support for end-users, including troubleshooting and answering system-related queries.
What You'll Need to Have:
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Business Administration, or a related field. Relevant certifications and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of hands on work in Corporate Accounting - GL, AR, AP, Forecasting
• Solid understanding of Income Statement Accounting, Historical, Weekly, Period and % based budgeting and contract management.
• ERP Hands On Experience REQUIRED - JDE, SAP, Peoplesoft - must have working experience with an ERP System.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand complex business processes and translate them into functional specifications.
• Exposure with writing/executing SQL statements - ability to extract data
• Experience with Anaplan preferred
• Exposure with Agile-Scrum methodology and JIRA Tracking software.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Exposure to cloud-based architecture (AWS, Azure, Power apps) is considered an asset.
• Ability to read/understand code like C# / JavaScript / Python is considered an asset.
Pay Range: $67-$70/hr
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