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Job Role: ERP Business Analyst – Finance & Global Consolidation
Location: Brentwood, TN
Duration: Long Term
Domain: Finance & Accounting ERP Transformation
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly experienced ERP Business Analyst (Oracle or SAP or MS Dynamics) with a strong background in Finance & Accounting (AR/AP/GL), month-end close, reconciliation processes, and global consolidation. This role will support a large-scale ERP transformation and modernization program covering multi-entity financial operations, compliance, and end-to-end process standardization.
The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience implementing Oracle Cloud ERP or SAP S/4HANA or MS Dynamics, deep understanding of finance workflows, and the ability to work with global stakeholders across accounting, FP&A, shared services, and technology teams.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Business Process Analysis & Design
Location: Brentwood, TN
Duration: Long Term
Domain: Finance & Accounting ERP Transformation
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly experienced ERP Business Analyst (Oracle or SAP or MS Dynamics) with a strong background in Finance & Accounting (AR/AP/GL), month-end close, reconciliation processes, and global consolidation. This role will support a large-scale ERP transformation and modernization program covering multi-entity financial operations, compliance, and end-to-end process standardization.
The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience implementing Oracle Cloud ERP or SAP S/4HANA or MS Dynamics, deep understanding of finance workflows, and the ability to work with global stakeholders across accounting, FP&A, shared services, and technology teams.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Business Process Analysis & Design
- Lead requirements gathering with Finance SMEs (AR, AP, GL, Fixed Assets, Treasury, Consolidations).
- Document current-state processes and define future-state workflows aligned to Oracle/SAP/MS Dynamics best practices.
- Support global template design for Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Record-to-Report, and consolidation processes.
- Validate financial close calendar, reconciliations, intercompany accounting, and multi-entity structures.
- Work closely with implementation partners on Oracle Cloud ERP (Financials) or SAP S/4HANA or MS Dynamics Finance modules.
- Translate business needs into functional specifications, configuration requirements, and solution designs.
- Support system setup for Chart of Accounts, cost centers, mappings, sub-ledger integration, and reporting hierarchies.
- Facilitate UAT planning, test case development, execution, and issue resolution.
- Deep understanding of month-end close, reconciliations, accruals, allocations, and consolidation adjustments.
- Support configuration and integration of close tools such as BlackLine, FCCS, BPC, ARM (nice to have).
- Ensure alignment of sub-ledgers (AP/AR/FA/Inventory) to General Ledger and consolidated financials.
- Assist in designing multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation frameworks.
- Support statutory reporting, management reporting, and financial statement generation.
- Work with cross-regional finance leaders to harmonize accounting policies and reporting standards.
- 5. Data, Integration & Change Management
- Assist with data mapping, cleansing, conversion, and validation for master and transactional data.
- Collaborate with integration teams on upstream/downstream connections (CRM, banking, procurement, payroll, tax).
- Support training, communication, SOP development, and end-user readiness for new ERP processes.
- Required
- 7 years as a Finance/ERP Business Analyst or Functional Consultant.
- Strong knowledge of finance and accounting operations—AR, AP, GL, FA, tax, and financial reporting.
- Hands-on experience in Oracle Cloud ERP Financials or SAP S/4HANA Finance or MS Dynamics implementation(s).
- Solid understanding of R2R, P2P, O2C, and month-end close cycles.
- Experience with global multi-entity consolidation and intercompany processes.
- Ability to create BRDs, FRDs, process maps, test scripts, and training documentation.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Preferred
- CPA, CMA, CA, or MBA (Finance).
- Experience with tools like BlackLine, SAP BPC, FCCS, HFM, OneStream, etc.
- Experience in shared services/COE environments.
- Exposure to parallel run, cutover planning, and post-go-live stabilization.
- Key Competencies:
- Strong analytical and financial acumen
- Functional depth in finance systems
- Ability to work in a fast-paced transformation environment
- Global stakeholder collaboration
- Structured documentation and process rigor
- Hands-on problem solving and root-cause analysis
- High ownership and accountability
- Experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts
- Proficiency in translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with aproven ability to work well with adiverse set of peers and customers
- Experience as an Agile Business Analyst with a strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology.
- Proven experience in organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs.
- Defining acceptance criteria and managing the acceptance process with development teams.
- Experience with Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0
- Advanced SQL experience for complex queries, database profiling, and troubleshooting.