Financial Systems Analyst

To apply to this hybrid role, please send your resume to John Sadofsky at john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m

The warmer Chicago months are here! Treat yourself this Summer season to a new job opportunity at a Fortune 500 company that was voted one of the best places to work in 2024.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the timely and accurate execution of the global closing process, planning process and payment processing by coordinating, monitoring, and identifying and resolving issues.
• Address and resolve all issues raised from the CFO community.
• Support the production of information for management and financial reporting, using SAP BW, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Analysis for Office.
• Support Finance stakeholders in making best use of the available reporting capabilities.
• Execute and/or contribute to the execution of governance processes for Finance Solutions.
• Support financial audits with the necessary reports and process documentation from financial systems.
• Review the audit findings that relate to the financial applications and processes, identifying possible courses of action to address findings.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to implement steps to mitigate issues.
• Contribute as Finance specialist in agile release trains and other projects and initiatives.
• Work with local and global CFO teams to assess as-is process and system flow, develop/document business requirements, ensure understanding between the company's functions, lead testing, facilitate sign off from CFO unit and ensure implementation and execution of features or other project deliverables.
• Support the development of financial applications and process landscape in close collaboration with the local and global CFO community, IT, process management and Group functions.
• Harmonize, document and implement Finance related processes, based on sound analysis of various inputs from the different Finance teams and other sources.
• Regularly update and review process flows and procedures related to Financial Solutions North America as needed.
• Participate in process improvement initiatives within North America and the Global Finance community, and assure consistency across multiple areas.
• Support the root cause analysis of data quality issues by analysing data, processes, and data flows.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in Finance and/or Insurance (ideally P& C) as well as understanding of complexities inherent in an insurance group (consolidation processes, legal vs management view) allowing for cross-departmental thinking and acting;
• Experience working on teams and projects in an international and dynamic environment;
• Proven process analysis and documentation experience;
• Financial systems knowledge (e.g., SAP FI, SAP BW, SAP SAC, SAP AfO, and/or Global Genius);
• Excel and PowerPoint skills to effectively analyze data and convey messages in a winning fashion;
• Experience developing and implementing solutions from complex stakeholder requirements;
• Understanding of data modeling, operations and technical workflows with regards to financial reporting and closing operations;
• IT understanding (e.g., systems, reporting tools, resolution of production Issues, troubleshooting, and cycles);
• Ability to identify patterns and root causes in complex (e.g., ambiguous, from various sources) data and processes to rapidly distil key issues and provide insight in various situations;
• Ability to identify and initiate appropriate actions to remediate issues that can be abstract/ambiguous and follow through on their remediation;
• Ability to understand, elaborate and convey information clearly and effectively with respect to the (both verbally and in writing);
• Ability to manage small projects including milestone and task planning, controlling, monitoring, and reporting; and
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or IT.

To apply to this hybrid role, please send your resume to John Sadofsky at john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m