Senior Business Analyst Finance Technology

Southern New Hampshire University is a team of innovators. World changers. Individuals who believe in progress with purpose. Since 1932, our people-centered strategy has defined us — and helped us grow a team that now serves over 180,000 learners worldwide.

Our mission to transform lives is made possible by talented people who bring diverse industry experience, backgrounds and skills to the university. And today, we're ready to expand our reach. All we need is you.

Make an impact — from near or far

At SNHU, you'll have the option to work remotely in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

We ask that our remote employees have access to a reliable internet connection and a dedicated, properly equipped workspace that is free of distractions. Employees must reside in, and work from, one of the above approved states.

The opportunity

The Senior Business Analyst Finance Technology proactively engages with Finance stakeholders and other business units throughout the university to learn processes, policies, and procedures, and translates business requirements into system changes/functional specifications and develop efficiencies/solutions. The Senior Business Analyst Finance Technology works as a liaison between the Finance functional teams and the Finance technology solutions team. Partnering with the Senior Director of Financial Systems, you will work on cross-functional initiatives, lead discussions to translate business requirements into system changes/functional specifications and facilitate conversations to identify potential solutions.

You will also participate in the testing and validation of solutions delivering on the approved requirements ensuring the desired business outcomes. Additionally, this position will provide project management support and act as a project manager on Finance technology initiatives. #LI-Remote

What you'll do:

• Conduct interviews and facilitate group sessions with business and technology partners to elicit, analyze, and document business requirements as well as change management. Provide consultative support to stakeholders to help them to achieve desired changes and outcomes.
• Document and manage requirements traceability matrix and confirm solution meets requirements.
• Utilize modeling techniques to produce diagrams, and models that illustrate system and data relationships, and business process flows for both current and future states.
• Analyze the business requirements and validate potential solutions/approaches with business and finance technical staff to identify potential improvements in functionality and processes, and ways that technology can help to achieve organizational goals.
• Perform the project manager role in conjunction with the business analyst role on appropriately sized requests or projects to ensure all project tasks are planned and executed based on the project requirements. This includes guiding and supporting the transition of solutions from a development to a production/operational status.
• Support business and technical partners in all aspects of testing including test script development, acceptance criteria, integration testing, test data creation, user acceptance testing, etc.
• Proactively facilitate conversations between functional and technical teams to ensure common and thorough understanding of business needs and solution capabilities to achieve better outcomes.
• As needed participate in dialog with vendors and SNHU staff to understand vendor solutions and obligations, confirm vendor offerings, and monitor vendor performance towards SNHU requirements.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

What we're looking for:

• 7+ years experience in business process management, project management or business process analysis
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration, or related field.
• Experience in relevant Finance, IT, or business domain role(s).
• Experience with current technology, business applications, and data models used for finance functional transactions, operations and business reporting.
• Experience with cloud-based environments such as Workday, ServiceNow.
• Project management experience and familiarity with project management methodologies.
• Analysis skills with experience implementing complex solutions balancing cost-benefit, security, extensibility, interoperability, manageability, and other key organizational considerations.
• Distinctive blend of business, technical, analytical, and exceptional communication and leadership skills.
• Deep understanding of software/system development lifecycle and integration.
• Understand interdependencies between business systems transactional and data models to propose system changes and troubleshoot production issues which impact business operations.

We believe real innovation comes from inclusion - where different experiences, perspectives and talents are celebrated. So if you're wondering whether SNHU is right for you, take the leap and apply. You might be just the person we're looking for.

Compensation

Exceptional benefits (because you’re exceptional)

You’re the whole package. Your benefits should be, too. As a full-time employee at SNHU, you’ll get:

• High-quality, low-deductible medical insurance

• Low to no-cost dental and vision plans

• 5 weeks of paid time off (plus almost a dozen paid holidays)

• Employer-funded retirement

• Free tuition program

• Parental leave

• Mental health and wellbeing resources