DescriptionThe Applications Analyst is responsible for utilizing established analytical and research skills in the planning, organizing, and conducting of a Business Needs Assessment, most commonly referred to as Business Requirements, for the development of systems capabilities that are cost effective, creative, and that meet user's needs. This role may engage in the solutions of moderately complex challenges and may recommend and implement system configurations to accomplish moderately complex project goals. The Applications Analyst plays a durable role throughout the Development Lifecycle that includes gathering and documenting business requirements, creating use case scenarios, modeling business process, and participating in the overall planning that will ensure the system delivered meets the needs of the business.
Responsibilities- Independently, assists the business in building upon the project definition, description and vision document, which may include scope, risk, and identification of stakeholders with frequent oversight.
- Plans, coordinates, and creates written documentation that clearly describes the needs of the business, which may include Business Requirements, Business Use Cases, Process Models, Business Needs Analysis, or Conceptual Design Documents.
- Gathers requirements, researches and analyzes existing and proposed solutions in the development, modification, or enhancement of programs or systems.
- Engages in dependency analysis, functional design, workflow analysis, use case analysis, data and process modeling, and has a clear understanding of the current and future business rules.
- Participates in the testing discipline by partnering with the Test Lead to support test planning, incident research and analysis, test strategy, QA and user acceptance testing functions, as needed.
- With occasional support from senior team members, participates in all aspects of the requirements discipline, including estimating, feasibility analysis, meeting facilitation, management and executive reporting, change request management, issue tracking, process improvements, and project planning.
- Provides support as needed throughout the project lifecycle, participating directly in issue resolution, break and hot fix support, and triage in the identification and resolution of all project incidents, documentation maintenance and traceability as related to the requirements discipline.
- Maintenance and support of all existing financial processes in Oracle Cloud applications.
- Ability to analyze, understand, and troubleshoot issues within the cloud applications, reporting tools, and interface systems.
- Design and develop new solutions and enhancements to existing financial system and process by leading projects or releases specific to Oracle Finance.
- Coordinate and work with business partners, guide them on best practices, develop and design business capabilities and contribute to the quarterly Oracle patch rollouts.
- Develop system, regression, performance, test plans, scripts, and coordinate user acceptance testing.
- Lead conversations and facilitate discussion with technical resources to translate functional business requirements into technology solutions and ensure successful delivery.
- Analyze issues reported by users and provide the solution or code fix in all financial areas.
- Write queries or custom reports as needed to analyze data issues, provide ad-hoc reports, or solve system issues.
- Support month end close process and ensure the closing is completed within the timelines.
Qualifications- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience in business analysis in a technical environment, supporting multiple small to large teams of business and IT staff.
- Overall, 1-3 years’ experience in Oracle Cloud Financials.
- Experience in 2-3 end to end implementation projects.
- Experience in OTBI, BI and FRS reporting tools.
- Experience in design and troubleshooting the approval workflow process.
- Experience in Advanced Collections process and strategies.
- Experience in process areas of Procure to Pay, Order to Cash and Record to Report.
- Exposure to OIC (Integration cloud), ATP and PaaS is an added advantage.
- Excellent communication, presentation, team and interpersonal skills.
- Strong critical thinking and abstract reasoning.
- Seeks out best practice to develop techniques for excellent problem solving.
- Multi-tasking abilities with project management skills.
- Data interpretation skills to form actionable suggestions to support business requirements.
- Ability to understand stakeholder needs and demonstrates creative thinking to provide solutions and recommend system and process enhancements.
- Strong decision-making skills and process management to ensure stakeholders understand all the conditions, environment, and measures in which the decision will be made.
- Ability to perform evaluation of historical trends to provide predictive insights.
- Offer solutions to resolve risks, conflicts, and assumptions.
- Ability to summarize requirements and connect requirements to business goals while anticipating system impact.
- Strong research skills/ability to get an overview and dive into details independently with little to no direction.
Base Pay Information
The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental’s assessment of the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity. Pay Grade 20. $59,000 - $130,900
