Finance Functional Analyst

SUMMARY:
We are looking for a Finance Functional Analyst to join our team in Cape Town- hybrid.

POSITION INFO:

We are looking for a Finance Functional Analyst to join our team in Cape Town- hybrid.

The Finance Functional Analyst role will be required to translate Finance business requirements into OneStream technical specifications and solutions, and build required workflows, cube views, forms and other OneStream functionality, working closely with other functional analysts and technical resources.

The scope of the programme covers Consolidation & Reporting, Tax Computation & Reporting, Finance Allocations and Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting.

We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled and proactive individuals to join our programme to support our OneStream implementation journey.

Qualifications and experience

• Accounting degree/qualification - Required
• Experience in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions - Required
• OneStream EPM experience - Preferred
• Experience in Finance Technology implementation projects - Required
• Strong understanding of finance processes and how an EPM solution supports these processes - Required

Technical skills

• Strong understanding of finance processes, hierarchies and data, specifically in relation to:
  • Consolidation
  • Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Tax
  • IFRS
  • Regulatory reporting
  • Strong understanding of finance technology and data landscape
  • Understanding of dimensionality and how multi-dimensional calculations/financial consolidation works
  • Experience in business, process & data analysis, producing functional requirements, solutions design, and data modelling
  • Ability to translate finance business requirements into technical specifications for developer resources to build
  • Experience in designing and developing new solutions in addition to maintaining and troubleshooting issues in the existing solutions such as metadata, business rules, cube views, dashboards and all components of workflows.
  • Experience with hands-on configuration of the solution for specific business functions including cubes, metadata, data sources, transformation rules, formulas, forms, cube views, quick views, and workflows.
  • Strong facilitation skills - for requirements gathering, solutioning and training
  • Advanced Excel skills

Behavioural skills

• Pro-active problem solver.
• Collaborative.
• Bias for action.
• Integrative, systemic thinker.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to produce high quality documentation.
• Good stakeholder management, and ability to engage with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple deliverables/tasks.
• A solution-oriented mindset and team-oriented personality.