Senior Business Systems Analyst - Oracle Financial Systems

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

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Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

This role is based in Bangalore.

As Senior Business Systems Analyst you will be supporting the Source to Pay business & Record to Report process. In this role, you will be a member of the Business Applications team and will be responsible for designing and supporting existing financial systems, translating business requirements into system solutions, preparing design specifications and documenting applications of varying complexity following the predefined standards and best practices.  

The Sr. BSA will work closely with Global process owners, regional business process owners, business process analysts, SMEs, product and commerce engineering teams and global Business Applications team to understand the business needs to provide new capabilities and functionality, resolve issues and ensure standards and procedures are followed and maintained. Ideal candidates will have strong hands-on experience with demonstrated leadership in handling finance cross functional projects. This position will develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of each business unit's priorities, their corresponding strategy, as well as the supporting IT strategies. This role will work closely with BizApps leadership as well as foster relationships with stakeholders within key business units sponsoring initiatives. 

Responsibilities  

• Provide functional Oracle R12 EBS application support to internal Business customers in the areas of Record to Report and Source to pay including GL, Cash Management, Fixed assets, Procurement, Supplier management, accounts payable plus related customizations, extensions, and inbound/outbound interfaces to boundary systems.  

• Support Business users and help to troubleshoot simple to complex application issues and develop creative solutions to support business needs.  

• Create end-to-end future-state functional designs, identify system and requirements gaps, and recommend solutions. Review functional design with stakeholders and obtain approvals.  

• Partner with technical teams to translate functional design into technical solutions.  

• Support project planning and delivery through assessment of effort, risk, issue resolutions, and project closure.   

• Perform project management for small to mid-size initiatives. 

• Conduct knowledge transfer and training sessions with the Business and Application teams to enable new functionality and adoption.  

• Develop and execute unit test plans, participate in system, regression, CRP, and UAT testing to ensure solutions meet requirements. 

• Create and review configuration documentation (e.g., BR100) with the Business Applications project team. Configure systems to meet business requirements.  

• Ensure SOX and compliance standards are met in all work performed.  

• Monitor effectiveness of systems, policies and procedures and make appropriate recommendations to ensure daily operations are efficient, and SLAs are met.  

• Knowledge on month-end and year-end close activities and ongoing maintenance of Oracle ERP systems, including related interfaces. 

• Collaborate as part of a team to ensure consistent communication with customers, clearly articulating complex concepts verbally and in writing.  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:  

BA/BS degree  

8+ years of experience providing Oracle Applications implementation and support in a customer-facing role for Record to report and Source to pay.  

Hands on experience in implementing and supporting Oracle Financials (Oracle E-Business Suite), EB-Tax, Approvals Management (AME), Cash Management and GL modules. 

Experience of SOX controls, compliance and change management for business systems.  

Experience with Oracle table structures, Schemas, Oracle open interfaces. Must be able to write basic SQL scripts.  

Experience defining functional design for custom solutions, conversions and interfaces.  

Experience in executing financial projects in Oracle applications. 

Should have experience in identifying business problems and proposal of automated solutions. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

Experience with implementing and supporting business systems for Source to Pay business & Record to Report process. 

Knowledge of working with engineering teams and finance team there by bridging the gap by translating requirement across different teams  

Experience with integration of external systems like Coupa for data integration and process automation. 

Degree or professional certification in accounting or related discipline.  

Experience supporting global regions  

Knowledge of project management and standard testing methodologies in Oracle applications. 

Solid understanding of taxation, statutory reporting, and Oracle table structures. 

Excellent communication, teamwork, multitasking, problem solving and collaboration skills  

Working knowledge in Oracle fusion ERP application would be an added advantage 

Additional Information

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Experience Level

Senior Level