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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Business Analyst – Finance & Accounting
Location: Miamisburg, OH (HQ)
Department: Information Technology
Reports To: IT Applications Manager
Department: Information Technology
Reports To: IT Applications Manager
FLSA Status: Full-Time, Exempt
Level: IC
Level: IC
Summary
The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (E1) Business Analyst – Finance & Accounting serves as the primary IT liaison supporting Finance and Accounting business users. This role partners closely with Accounting, Finance, and IT to improve business processes, resolve system issues, and optimize JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financial modules.
This position requires direct, hands-on functional experience working inside the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financial modules — configuring modules, troubleshooting issues, supporting users, and resolving production tickets. Direct, in-system experience is the most important qualification for this role; it combines that practical ERP expertise with strong accounting and finance domain knowledge to ensure financial processes, controls, and reporting requirements are effectively translated into scalable, well-supported system solutions.
This position resides within IT but is dedicated to supporting Finance & Accounting operations, reporting, compliance, and strategic initiatives.
Why This Role Matters
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is the financial backbone of Covation Global — every close, reconciliation, payment, and report runs through it. When something breaks at month-end, when a batch fails, or when Accounting needs a process to work better, the business needs someone who can go directly into the system and fix it, not just describe the problem. That is what this role provides: a hands-on E1 Financials expert embedded in support of Finance and Accounting. Because this person works directly in the modules — configuring, troubleshooting, and resolving issues firsthand — they keep financial operations accurate, compliant, and running on time, and they turn business needs into real, well-supported system solutions. Without that direct, in-system capability, issues linger, closes slip, and finance processes stay manual and fragile.
What Success Looks Like (3 Core Outcomes):
- Reliable Financial Systems & On-Time Closes: JDE Financial modules run reliably through month-, quarter-, and year-end close. Production issues, batch failures, posting errors, and reconciliation discrepancies are diagnosed and resolved quickly and directly in the system, minimizing impact to Finance and Accounting.
- Improved, Well-Controlled Processes: “As-is” financial processes are evaluated and improved into stronger “to-be” designs that enhance efficiency, strengthen internal controls, and improve reporting accuracy — with configurations that support GAAP/IFRS, audit, and compliance requirements.
- Trusted Partner to Finance & IT: Finance, Accounting, and IT rely on this role as a responsive, knowledgeable partner who translates business needs into clear specifications and Change Requests, coordinates testing and successful deployments, and provides effective training and knowledge transfer to end users.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Other duties may be assigned.
Finance & Accounting Systems Support
- Serve as the primary IT point of contact for Finance & Accounting JD Edwards EnterpriseOne support.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production support issues related to JDE Financial modules.
- Analyze root causes of system errors, reconciliation discrepancies, posting issues, batch failures, and integration problems.
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities within E1.
- Assist Accounting with audit requests, data validation, and system-related compliance requirements.
- Provide hands-on support for Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), General Ledger (GL), Fixed Assets, Inventory Costing, Advanced Pricing, Account Reconciliation, Financial Reporting, Consolidations & Restatements, and Intercompany Processing.
System Analysis & Process Optimization
- Partner with Finance & Accounting and IT to analyze system issues, gather requirements, and design effective JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solutions.
- Configure and support E1 Financial modules to align with evolving business and accounting requirements.
- Translate business needs into clear functional specifications and formal Change Requests for development, estimation, and approval.
- Lead and support solution testing activities, including unit testing and coordination of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring successful deployment to Production.
- Evaluate current (“as-is”) financial processes and design improved (“to-be”) processes that enhance efficiency, strengthen internal controls, and improve reporting accuracy.
- Ensure financial system configurations support GAAP/IFRS standards, audit requirements, and internal control compliance.
- Support the configuration, testing, and ongoing maintenance of integrations between JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and third-party applications, ensuring reliable data exchange and alignment with business requirements.
- Collaborate with Finance leadership to drive automation, reporting enhancements, and continuous process improvement.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work with SMEs from Finance and other functional areas to review and prioritize system change requests.
- Collaborate with E1 Developers and other Business Analysts to translate business requirements into functional and technical solutions.
- Provide training and knowledge transfer to Finance end-users.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None.
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 3 years of direct, hands-on experience working inside JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financial modules — configuring, troubleshooting, supporting users, and resolving production tickets. Direct, in-system experience is essential and weighed more heavily than total years.
- Hands-on functional experience across the E1 Financial modules, including: Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), General Ledger (GL), Fixed Assets, Inventory Costing, Advanced Pricing, Financial Reporting, Account Reconciliation, Intercompany Accounting, Consolidations & Restatements, Batch Processing, Posting, and Error Resolution; UDCs, AAIs, and Financial Integrity Reports; and Financial Data Structures and Chart of Accounts design.
- Experience with financial audit support and internal controls.
- Experience supporting multi-company, multi-currency environments.
- Experience with banking integrations, ACH, positive pay, or tax systems a plus.
- Experience with EDI financial transactions a plus.
- Experience supporting integrations between JDE and external systems.
- Experience participating in ERP upgrades or major enhancements a plus.