Business Analyst

Join a fast-paced finance technology initiative where you'll help onboard forecasting models into a financial planning platform and play a key role in improving how business stakeholders, engineering teams, and data partners work together. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented Business Analyst who enjoys translating business needs into technical solutions, improving workflows, and ensuring forecasting outputs are accurate, documented, and ready for production.
Responsibilities

• Gather and document reporting and forecasting requirements from finance stakeholders and translate them into clear technical specifications.
• Define data needs and source-data expectations for forecasting models, identify gaps, and recommend practical solutions within platform constraints.
• Partner with engineering teams to support the design, build, testing, and deployment of model enhancements in a planning and forecasting environment.
• Create wireframes and recommend user experience improvements that streamline forecast adjustments and simplify how users interact with the system.
• Develop and execute user acceptance testing plans to confirm changes produce accurate and financially sound results before release.
• Document business logic, calculation rules, and data flow for onboarded forecasting dimensions and model improvements.
• Help strengthen validation controls and partner with technical teams to address issues affecting reporting accuracy or data consistency.
• Investigate discrepancies across reporting outputs and work across teams to identify and resolve root causes.
• Manage the engineering ticket queue from intake through resolution, helping prioritize work based on business needs.

Skills

• 4 to 6 years of experience as a Business Analyst or Systems Analyst in finance systems or enterprise planning tools.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical documentation for engineering teams.
• Experience assessing current workflows and recommending improved processes and user-friendly solutions.
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data modeling, and scenario analysis.
• Working knowledge of SQL and the ability to query relational databases for validation and analysis.
• Experience planning and executing UAT in a structured environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to partner across technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to organize competing priorities and track work through completion.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with TM1, Planning Analytics, or Apliqo.
• Familiarity with ETL pipelines and data warehouse concepts.
• Background in FP&A processes such as forecasting, variance analysis, and dimensional modeling.
• Experience supporting media, streaming, or subscription-based businesses.
• Comfort working in a collaborative environment where documentation, process improvement, and cross-functional partnership are highly valued.

Horizontal is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where different perspectives are respected, valued, and encouraged. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work.

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