This is a hybrid position requiring an on-site presence 3 to 4 days per week. Please note that the number of days on-site can increase based on business needs
JOB SUMMARY:
Collaborate with Product Owner, Business Partners, Product Team, Engineering, and Cross Functional Teams (Finance, Accounting, FP&A, External Reporting, Tax), to design, optimize, and scale finance systems and solutions. Serve as a partner to business teams in translating business needs into platform capabilities and ensure finance systems are maintained to meet business requirements.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for collaborating with the team to understand and propose solutions to configure package software or custom software development
- Provides functional design support for finance technology solutions across transactional accounting, finance, tax, FP&A, and reporting.
- Convert business requirements into product configuration requirements, maintain functional and technical documentation, including user stories, and other Agile artifacts.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure solutions are scalable and compliant with Sysco's standards and policies.
- Ensures design and development standards are being followed to minimize rework; promotes only quality-tested code and does it frequently
- Provides subject matter expertise support for issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and ensure continues optimization and automation with AI/ML solutions.
- Acts as a key stakeholder or backup for Product Owner in the daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to update progress, highlight, and resolve impediments
- Reviews required documentation to communicate information to deployment, maintenance, service, and business teams
- Provides mentorship to junior FAs and BAs through Community of Practice and other informal forums, and may supervise FAs in a
- Lead training of the software package to key stakeholders as required
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, computer science, or equivalent for the specific role's responsibilities
Mandatory Experience:
- 5-8 years of experience in finance, financial systems technology supporting finance functions.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise finance systems (Workday, Microsoft BI, SAP BPC, Microsoft D365)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand processes around consolidations, planning, finance analytics, and external and internal reporting.
- Proven ability to write clear functional requirements and collaborate with engineering teams
- Strong understanding of data modeling and integration across finance platforms.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement are required across global teams.
Skills and Competencies:
- Strong understanding of Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban & other agile frameworks
- Demonstrated "agile-development" mindset with strong customer-focus & results-orientation
- Knowledge of automation tools, AI-enabled finance solutions.
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced agile environment, adapt to shifting urgencies, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines
- Highly proficient in teamwork and collaboration skills