Senior Business Analyst, Finance (Onsite)

About Us

Are you ready to join a community leading in innovative teaching and learning? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country.

With our growing enrollment and global reach, we are enjoying increased prominence among Georgia's colleges. We offer more than 150 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to over 43,000 students. Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics also draw students from throughout the region and from 92 countries across the globe.

Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, mission and values and rich benefits make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. Kennesaw State will exemplify the power and promise of a student-centered, research-driven university.

Our institutional values are student-inspired, promise-fulfilling, true to ourselves, elevational, open and impact-generating. In addition, we support the University System of Georgia core values of accountability, excellence, integrity and respect. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University. Come to KSU and find your passion.

Location

Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144.

Job Summary

Develops reporting solutions to satisfy and support University stakeholders, supports financial applications, and delivers training on financial systems. Monitors and improves the quality of various technical and functional business processes, identifies, and resolves data issues. Responsibilities include collecting requirements, developing reports and dashboards, testing, implementation of new or upgrading software applications, leading process improvements, and training to support the objectives of the Institution.

Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1.Designs, builds, implements, and maintains Oracle Structural Query Language (SQL) scripts and procedures in Oracle financial data warehouse

2.Interfaces with clients to define business processes, specifications, reporting needs, and functional requirements

3.Develop reports, visualizations, and dashboards that present data in a way that can be assessed and easily navigated by stakeholders and business users

4.Devises and executes test plans to ensure that the outcome meets the specified requirements and expectations of business users

5.Delivers quality end-user training programs, reinforcing technology and operations infrastructure to ensure effective and efficient use of the systems to achieve campus goals

6.Performs training needs analysis, develops training programs and manuals, initiates, and oversees training systems

7.Documents complex system processes, functionality and implements improvements as applicable

8.Leads meetings with end users to clarify issues, gather requirements, and resolve requests

9.Prioritizes and executes problem resolution based on business need, timelines, and scale of impact

10. Presents data resolution findings to relevant stakeholders with recommendations to ensure business needs are met

11. Leads finance users on current and future data visualization and reporting solutions to identify customer needs

12. Provides support for operational and technical processes, and system changes and proactively searches for improvement opportunities

13. Primary support point of contact for USG to open tickets and facilitate resolutions

14. Approves content on the department and/or division webpage under direction of leadership

15. Maintains financial data integrity

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution of higher education in Computer Science, Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Engineering and five (5) years of experience in Business, Finance, Accounting, information Technology or Systems Analysis, to include one (1) year of SQL experience.

OR

Master's Degree from an accredited institution of higher education in Computer Science, Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field and three (3) years of experience in Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Technology or Systems Analysis, to include one (1) year of SQL experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Preferred Qualifications

Certification in SQL, data analytics or similar relevant certification

Working knowledge of fund accounting, budget, and finance

Strong IT and Financial skills

Preferred Experience

Experience with reporting and/or query tools and coding in software, databases, and/or programs such as Tableau, SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide, Oracle Databases, and/or SQL (or gathering data from other related database systems)

Extensive experience in data analysis, dashboards, analytics and decision support systems

Proposed Salary

The salary rage for this position is between $65,400and $83,400. Offers will be based on candidate experience and budget availability.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

ABILITIES

Able to