Senior Business Analyst

MediaNews Group is seeking an Oracle Cloud Financial systems analyst to join the team! This role involves gathering business requirements, functional configuration, leading testing, user training, and ensuring solution adoption and system alignment with business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with finance and accounting teams to gather and document requirements, scope new work, and document Oracle cloud solution designs
• Identify business requirements and map them to Oracle Cloud Functionality
• Identify functionality gaps and define solutions
• Prepare detailed requirement specification documents and functional specification documents
• Configuration of Oracle Cloud financials module to meet requirements
• Consult and participate in Cloud upgrade releases and new projects
• Proactively stay ahead of new system features and functionality to improve business processes and champion change with stakeholders
• Ensure end-user(s) have complete understanding of new capabilities through facilitation of training, documentation, and ongoing availability to ensure full adoption of solution
• Function as a team member or leader on specified projects
• Day to day support related activities to ensure the system is running as expected

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required
• 5+ years of experience implementing and supporting solutions in Oracle Cloud financials modules (GL, FA, CM, AP, and Expenses)
• Experience with OTBI, and BI Publisher
• Proficiency in accounting essentials
• Well developed problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills
• Ability to conduct meetings with technical and business teams
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal
• First-hand exposure talking to business (users, VPs, and CFOs) and collaborating to meet their needs
• Self-starter that can work independently to achieve results
• Knowledge with Oracle AI Agent preferred