Business Analyst, Financial Systems

Tricon Residential Inc. (NYSE: TCN, TSX: TCN) is an owner and operator of a growing portfolio of more than 38,000 single-family rental homes in the U.S. Sun Belt and multi-family apartments in Canada. Our commitment to enriching the lives of our employees, residents and local communities underpins Tricon's culture and business philosophy. We provide high-quality rental housing options for families across the United States and Canada through our technology-enabled operating platform and dedicated on-the-ground operating teams. Our development programs are also delivering thousands of new rental homes and apartments as part of our commitment to help solve the housing supply shortage. At Tricon, we imagine a world where housing unlocks life's potential. For more information, visit Tricon Residential.

Job Description

Do you thrive on aligning technology with strategic business goals and accounting optimization? Are you a master of translating complex requirements into elegant solutions? If so, then join our team as an IT Business Analyst, Financial Systems and become the bridge between business vision and IT execution. This dynamic role requires cross-functional work to improve our systems and processes in an agile environment, bridging the gap between business and technology.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following but are not limited to the job specifications contained herein. Additional duties or job functions that can be performed safely may be required as deemed necessary by supervisory personnel.

• Conducts business process analyses, needs assessments, and preliminary cost/benefits analyses to align information technology solutions with business initiatives.

• Performs data validation and data migration activities for large migrations due to system conversions or growth activities.

• Designs new technology solutions by analyzing requirements, constructing workflow charts and diagrams, studying system capabilities, and writing specifications.

• Develop features and requirements from stakeholders into a fully formed project or feature vision that describes the project's needs, features, constraints, and scope.

• Understands the process workflow and considers the implication of process changes to the current and future business environment. Uses an understanding of accounting issues and challenges to implement successful processes and policy updates.

• Writes and maintains business requirements, functional specifications, and test plans.

• Serves as a liaison between Accounting, IT Support, Infrastructure, Application Support, and Developers for system modifications, enhancements, and implementations.

• Collaborates closely with SaaS providers and Solutions Architects to analyze business projects and change requests supporting various enterprise financial applications.

• Troubleshoot issues and provide solutions using a help desk system that eliminates manual processes by automating support requests.

• Identifies improvement opportunities and experiments with different approaches to improve processes and situations while staying within the accepted accounting framework.

• Maintains SOP and FAQ documentation for major systems in Confluence and Sharepoint. Train and inform all levels of support on this documentation.

• Collaborates with Product and Project Managers in an agile environment to meet project deadlines.

• Facilitates deployments and automates test procedures in both QA and production environments.

• Serves as subject matter expert in Tricon's financial systems.

• Collaborates with Application Support and Solutions Architect teams to identify and resolve production issues. At the same time, provide valuable feedback on application improvements.

• Monitors/follow up with Agile Scrum team Product Managers on backlog item status.

• Participates in testing and de-bugging during pre-deployment and post-deployment stages.

• Author and distribute release notes post-release.

• Compile tasks and estimates and provide reporting of projects to stakeholders.

• Serve as liaison for IT audit activities, documenting processes and policies as required, working with auditors and other vendors to remediate areas of risk.

• Monitor and evaluate change control process related to version upgrades and enhancements to report on success and areas for improvement.

Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of accounting practices and systems (Yardi strongly preferred)

• Analytical, highly organized, and great attention to detail

• Proven experience in gathering requirements, testing, and deploying large projects on time and budget

• Experience in analyzing data to draw business-relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools

• Experienced and knowledgeable with real estate ERP systems, Yardi strongly preferred

• Experience reading and writing SQL queries and reports

• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal

• Accounting-minded IT professional who is passionate about technology, innovation, and servant leadership

• Collaborative and team-oriented mindset

• Capable of managing multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines

• The ideal candidate has an understanding of:

• Agile and Scrum ideologies and frameworks

• Project Management tools like Confluence and Jira

• Real estate, REITs, and/or the accounting life cycle

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering or Industry certifications and equivalent related work experience of 5 years or more in place of Degree

• Minimum four (4) years experience in Technical Accounting, IT Business Analysis, Applications Support, or QA testing (required)

• Good understanding of project and time management principles

• Passionate about technology and creating accounting efficiencies

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job, including:

• Frequently required to sit; talk; and hear.

• Occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop; kneel; or crouch.

• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and depth perception.

At Tricon Residential, we know that the best ideas happen when people bring their uniqueness to work with them. Inclusion is an integral part of how we leverage that uniqueness into our Company. Supporting Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging is not only the right thing to do; it is the right thing to do for our business.

Salary Range

Placement within this compensation range will be determined by the candidate's knowledge, experience and skills.

$60,790.00 - $101,310.00