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Opportunity at a Glance The Senior Financial Systems Analyst is a highly skilled individual contributor who leads technical process improvement across the Finance systems landscape supporting Accounting and FP&A. This role serves as the primary owner of automation, data transformation, and solution design initiatives, with a strong focus on improving efficiency, reliability, and scalability across financial processes and reporting. The analyst partners closely with Accounting, FP&A, IT, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities to simplify work, reduce manual effort, and strengthen controls through better system and process design. A core philosophy for this role is Eliminate → Automate → Optimize: challenge existing processes, remove non-value-added work, automate recurring and manual activities, and continuously improve performance and user experience. This role is expected to operate with a high degree of independence, resolve ambiguity, and apply strong technical judgment to deliver practical, scalable solutions. Responsibilities • Process Improvement and Automation • Identify opportunities to eliminate, simplify, automate, and optimize Finance and Accounting processes across the financial systems ecosystem. • Lead the design, development, and maintenance of automated workflows to support journal entries, reporting, reconciliations, and data transformation activities. • Apply structured problem-solving and technical analysis to improve process efficiency, reduce manual effort, and increase solution reliability. • Establish and promote development standards, documentation practices, and sustainable automation approaches that support long-term maintainability. • Data Engineering and Technical Development • Write, troubleshoot, and optimize SQL queries across financial systems and data sources, including Lawson SQL Server and Google BigQuery. • Analyze, reverse engineer, document, and validate data structures, business logic, and reporting outputs where source processes or models are not well defined. • Support report rebuilds, data validation, and analytical reporting needs across Power BI and other reporting tools. • Maintain and enhance existing VBA-based solutions where appropriate, while introducing more scalable tools such as Python for data extraction, transformation, file handling, automation, API integration, and controls-related processes. • Evaluate and apply emerging AI-enabled development tools and coding assistants, where appropriate, to accelerate development, improve documentation, and enhance solution delivery. • Solution Design and Governance • Translate business requests into well-defined technical solutions that balance user needs, control requirements, and long-term supportability. • Assess request complexity, dependencies, and technical feasibility to help prioritize automation and process improvement efforts. • Maintain technical documentation, solution designs, runbooks, dependencies, and change logs to support knowledge transfer and operational continuity. • Partner with IT, external vendors, and business stakeholders to troubleshoot system and data issues, support implementation efforts, and resolve technical challenges. • Operational Support and Backup Coverage • Provide backup support for critical financial systems administration and operational activities as needed, including user access changes, month-end journal processing, key master data updates, and actuals refresh support. • Help strengthen operational resilience by ensuring recurring processes are documented, scalable, and not dependent on a single resource. • Performs other duties as assigned • Complies with all policies and standards • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field. • 5+ years experience in Financial Systems, Finance Technology, Accounting Systems, FP&A Systems, or a related technical finance support role. • Hands-on experience with workflow automation tools such as Alteryx or similar platforms used for data preparation, reporting, and recurring process automation. • Strong SQL skills, including experience working with enterprise data platforms such as SQL Server and Google BigQuery