Skechers

posted 4 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
1,001-5,000 employees
Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing

About the position

As a techno-functional member of the SKECHERS USA, Inc. Information Technology team, the Finance Systems Integrations Analyst will contribute to the management and ongoing support and implementation of applications within the SKECHERS finance systems portfolio. This role primarily focuses on supporting integrations and automations within the finance systems ecosystem while being part of a team that serves as a project lead. The analyst will partner with the business and other areas within IT to be the go-to integration support for the Finance and Accounting global end-user community. The position involves working with stakeholders to analyze system problems, application data, and business processes, creating integration solutions, performing testing, and identifying ways to enhance process efficiency while offering continuous improvement recommendations that align with business objectives and user needs. The essential job results include acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for integrations used across all finance applications, planning, evaluating, and overseeing the integration of systems to ensure that legacy and future finance applications work together efficiently. The analyst will be responsible for creating and maintaining functional specifications, integration design documents, business process workflows, data flow diagrams, and related documentation for new development projects and enhancements to be utilized by IT. Participation in efforts to reengineer and optimize business processes using integration solutions to gain efficiencies and reduce manual effort of stakeholders is also a key responsibility. Cross-functional collaboration and communication are crucial for quickly understanding, troubleshooting, finding root causes, and resolving issues. The analyst will support the Software Engineering team during the development process through research, requirements gathering, managing tickets, and testing to ensure that code performs as designed and meets integration requirements. Additionally, the role involves executing functional, integration, and regression test plans for new application functionality, product releases, enhancements, and regulatory modifications using business scenarios. The analyst will also be responsible for mapping data from source systems to target systems and actively participating in data conversion and data cleansing efforts. Interacting directly with application teams, subject matter experts, and third-party application experts to determine business needs for interfaces/integration needs, input and output requirements, and evaluating processes and procedures is essential. The analyst will partner with key business stakeholders and multiple departments to build a continuous improvement environment to support an ongoing program of transformation, ensuring consistency and best practices in the integration approach, enabling successful integration of acquired targets, and capturing learnings to enhance the process. Support for internal teams with usage guides, training, troubleshooting, and other technical assistance will also be part of the role.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for integrations used across all finance applications.
  • Plan, evaluate, and oversee the integration of systems to ensure that legacy and future finance applications work together efficiently.
  • Create and maintain functional specifications, integration design documents, business process workflows, data flow diagrams, and related documentation for new development projects and enhancements.
  • Participate in efforts to reengineer and optimize business processes using integration solutions to gain efficiencies and reduce manual effort of stakeholders.
  • Collaborate and communicate cross-functionally to quickly understand, troubleshoot, find root cause, and resolve issues.
  • Support the Software Engineering team during the development process via research, requirements gathering, managing tickets, and testing to ensure code performs as designed and meets integration requirements.
  • Execute functional, integration, and regression test plans for new application functionality, product releases, enhancements, and regulatory modifications using business scenarios.
  • Map data from source system to target system.
  • Actively participate in data conversion and data cleansing efforts.
  • Interact directly with application teams, subject matter experts, and third-party application experts to determine business needs for interfaces/integration needs, input and output requirements, and evaluate processes and procedures.
  • Partner with key business stakeholders and multi-departments to build a continuous improvement environment to support an ongoing program of transformation.
  • Ensure consistency and best practice to the integration approach, enabling the acquired target to be successfully integrated and measured, ensuring all learnings are captured and utilized to enhance the process.
  • Support internal teams with usage guides, training, troubleshooting, and other technical assistance.

Requirements

  • Working knowledge of Integration tools is a must.
  • Experience with Boomi, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and/or Alteryx is extremely helpful.
  • Knowledge of software support life cycle and testing practices.
  • Advanced analytical capability.
  • Highly motivated individual with desire to influence change on a large scale.
  • Takes personal responsibility to improve processes and systems.
  • Ability to conceptualize, formulate, and succinctly convey complex solutions to a wide audience.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent documentation skills using Microsoft Office, Visio/LucidChart, Smartsheet, Confluence.
  • Demonstrated innovation and creativity, considers different approaches to issue resolution.
  • Excellent relationship building skills, able to build trust with stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated track record of process improvement and desire to implement best practices.
  • Excellent organizational skills, ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines.
  • Must have high degree of accuracy, results-oriented, highly accountable.
  • Adaptable, flexible in a changing environment, comfortable with ambiguity.
  • Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
  • Works well in a fast-paced environment with tight timelines for deliverables.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Database Administration, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 8 years of hands-on progressive integration analyst experience working with flat-file integrations as well as APIs (REST & SOAP).
  • Knowledge of any RDMS SQL queries and any NoSQL database data fetch.
  • Knowledge of JSON and XML protocol and Extract Transform Load (ETL) for data mapping.
  • Knowledge of any common Cloud based service like AWS, Azure and/or GCP from Integrations perspective.
  • Knowledge and Expertise in any programming language like Python, Java, JavaScript, Groovy, C++, etc.
  • Experience integrating with Oracle Cloud SaaS is an added advantage.
  • Working knowledge of the integration process between core finance systems modules and boundary applications.
  • Proven ability to understand data flows and data relationships to troubleshoot integration issues, create meaningful reports and queries, and provide solution suggestions to management.
  • Proven ability to communicate, motivate and organize integration projects.
  • Experience supporting full Agile and Waterfall software development lifecycles (SDLC) including understanding business processes, gathering user requirements, design, testing, deployment, and training.
  • Experience using systems designed to manage issues, changes, and testing (ServiceNow, Jira).
  • Problem solving ability with a strong technical aptitude to perform root cause analysis.
  • Experience in the retail industry, helpful, but not required.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in the retail industry, helpful, but not required.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage
  • 401k benefit for retirement savings plan
  • Paid holidays
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Employee discount programs
  • Life insurance coverage
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Wellness programs
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