Sr. Financial Systems Analyst (PeopleSoft Financials)

Location: San Mateo, CA

Full Time

Description

Client is a leading global investment management organization due to the efforts of our greatest assets - our employees.  We have over 9,000 employees working in 60 offices around the world, servicing investment solutions for our clients in more than 150 countries. We believe in our corporate values of putting clients first, building relationships, achieving quality results, and working with integrity. Our people are dedicated to delivering strong results and exceptional service to clients, team members and business partners.  

For more than 65 years, our success has been a direct result of the talent, skills and persistence of our people. Weâ??re currently looking for qualified candidates to join our team.

The Sr. Financial Systems Analyst confirms the business\' needs and documents existing business processes, workflows, system processes, and dataflows in order to identify, recommend, and document the appropriate new business and systems requirements to address those needs.  Once approved, the Sr. Financial Systems Analyst works closely with their Application Development team and Testing Services by supporting the technical system design, systems testing, integration testing, quality assurance testing and user acceptance testing to implement the agreed upon solution.

Responsibilities include:

Production Support:

• Perform and review recurring tasks and user support on timely basis
• Provide end user support for technical problems or application questions
• Perform system audits for data integrity and security
• Develop and document system administration policies and procedures
• Coordinate with IS&T for resolution of application and infrastructure issues for support and user requests
• Work with software vendor/developer for upgrades, enhancements, fixes, and troubleshooting
• Track and resolve user support issues with current systems
• Maintain strong working relationships with project team members, internal finance customers, and external service vendors
• Provide end-user system training as needed

Requirements Analysis:

• Works with project teams to understand and clarify business requirements
• Understands system design, application data models and entity relationships and contributes to finalizing the business requirements
• Develop business and system process flows

Solution Design:

• Analyzes, designs, integrates, and implements solutions across multiple applications in a domain, to include work processes, modifications, interfaces, and reports
• Consults with users to streamline complex work processes
• Designs interfaces, features, and new technologies
• Advises on technical solutions for business requirements to maximize

Implementation:

• Coordinates implementation of changes to existing applications
• Documents configuration and participates in code reviews and walkthroughs
• Prepares system test plans, test cases and scripts for a medium-large sized systems
• Performs system and regression testing and helps with triage and clarification of issues uncovered in user acceptance testing for the application development team
• Coordinate and communicate with users, Systems Administration, IS&T, and contractors in multiple time zones to implement, enhance, or create new or revised systems

Qualifications

Ideal candidates will have:

• 5+ years of experience in PeopleSoft Financials version 8.9 or higher, specialized in General Ledger required; exposure to other modules including Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Treasury or Project Costing a plus
• Strong Business analysis skills around finance and/or information technology projects
• Strong Consultative and Advisory Skills
• Experience identifying, writing, and prioritizing business requirements
• Intermediate level understanding of Finance and Accounting practices preferred
• Financial services, Securities or accounting industry experience preferred
• Hands-on accounting experience, preferably in corporate accounting with experience in financial close and regulatory filing
• Basic experience utilizing MS Office (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio & Project)
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with persons contacted in the course of performing assigned duties including Company management and outside business associates
• Attention to details
• Ability to interact with all level of management including senior management on a regular basis
• Ability to work independently or with minimal supervision
• Analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
• Knowledge of functional business systems and/or call center functionalities preferred.
• Familiarity with a system development lifecycle methodology

In addition to the dynamic and professional environment at Franklin Templeton, we strive to ensure that our employees have access to a competitive and valuable set of Total Rewardsâ??the mix of both monetary and non-monetary rewards provided to you in recognition for your time, talents, efforts, and results.

Highlights of our benefits include:

• Three weeks paid time off the first year
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with 75% company match, up to the IRS limits
• Employee Stock Investment Program
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Purchase of company funds with no sales charge
• Onsite fitness center and recreation center
• Onsite cafeteria