What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Business Analyst position at Fisher Investments?
Overview
Are you an accomplished collaborator and communicator in your current role? Do you have a passion for getting to the root of a problem and coming up with possible solutions? Come join a small, agile team at Fisher Investments and help improve Corporate Finance's processes.
The Opportunity:
As a Business Analyst at Fisher Investments, you will work with outside consultants and subject matter experts (SMEs) in Finance and Technology to implement department wide technology and process solutions. Reporting to the Finance Support Manager, you will apply your accounting knowledge to help establish and rationalize business requirements. You will also perform parallel testing of current and new technology and report results back to important partners; facilitate User Acceptance Testing and use end-user feedback to improve processes.
The Day-to-Day:
We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and development framework customized for every employee, and our Great Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional benefits like:
Are you an accomplished collaborator and communicator in your current role? Do you have a passion for getting to the root of a problem and coming up with possible solutions? Come join a small, agile team at Fisher Investments and help improve Corporate Finance's processes.
The Opportunity:
As a Business Analyst at Fisher Investments, you will work with outside consultants and subject matter experts (SMEs) in Finance and Technology to implement department wide technology and process solutions. Reporting to the Finance Support Manager, you will apply your accounting knowledge to help establish and rationalize business requirements. You will also perform parallel testing of current and new technology and report results back to important partners; facilitate User Acceptance Testing and use end-user feedback to improve processes.
The Day-to-Day:
- Work with Subject Matter Experts, decision makers and outside consultants to gather business requirements and design efficient business processes
- Perform regression testing for defect resolution and enhancements
- Create process documentation (e.g. process flows, Procedure documents, policy documents, system requirements, training documents)
- Design efficient accounting processes that best use new technology
- Work through the entire Project Life Cycle from idea through to implementation and stabilization
- 3 years of experience in business analysis including requirements gathering, user acceptance testing and efficient process building
- Experience working with SAP S/4HANA in the cloud preferred (core Finance modules – Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger a plus)
- Experience managing the full project life cycle from initial ideation through implementation and stabilization
- Applicable knowledge in MS Visio, Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets) and PowerPoint
- Experience working with documentation management
- $75,000 - $90,000 base salary per year in the state of WA. New hires should expect to start at the lower end of the range depending on experience
- Eligible for a discretionary bonus based on firm and individual performance
We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and development framework customized for every employee, and our Great Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional benefits like:
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents
- A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
- 20 days of PTO*, plus 10 paid holidays (*17 days of PTO and 3 days of sick time for California employees)
- Family Support programs including 8 weeks Paid Primary Caregiver leave, adoption assistance and back-up child care
- $10,000 fertility, hormonal health and family-forming benefit
Salary : $75,000 - $90,000
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