IT Applications Functional Analyst, TMS, Finance Technology, FT-TMS

$65,700 - $164,800/Yr

Amazon - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Entry Level

Jersey City, NJ

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About the position

The IT Applications Functional Analyst for Finance Technology at Amazon plays a crucial role in enhancing treasury applications and workflows. This position involves collaborating with business users to understand their needs, performing gap analyses, and implementing system modifications. The analyst will also be responsible for creating documentation, troubleshooting issues, and driving the adoption of best practices within the team.

Responsibilities

• Interact with business customers to understand and document their business processes and requirements.
• Perform gap analysis to determine system configuration changes or document necessary system enhancements or requirements.
• Create business requirements documents, system configuration documents, detailed functional design documents, test plans and test cases, user training documents, and implementation documents.
• Work with the business and the rest of the functional team to design and implement system modifications or configurations.
• Work with business customers, third-party providers, and internal teams to troubleshoot and resolve problems quickly and diligently.
• Continuously seek to enhance processes and workflows with the latest technologies and capabilities, refining KPIs and operational metrics.
• Review operational metrics and communicate with customers on open tickets, implementing new workflows and delivering design documents and status updates to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Functional knowledge of system design of general SaaS platforms.
• A minimum of 1 year experience working with SaaS platforms such as Kyriba, Reval, Redbridge, or related systems.
• Experience working with Treasury, Payroll, Accounts Payables, Accounting, Purchasing, Account Receivables, Cash Management, and Fixed Assets and their related systems.
• Strong system knowledge in bank statement reporting, cash management and forecasting, payments, netting, In House Banking (IHB), bank account management, user administration of financial transactions, and financial accounting.
• Ability to troubleshoot unique and disparate challenges or issues within the mix of systems supported, with strong root cause analysis and complex problem-solving skills.
• Experience prioritizing competing demands, scoping large efforts, and negotiating timelines.
• Experience in engaging Third Party Support to research and resolve issues.
• Experience analyzing data and translating business requirements into technical specifications.

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively organize and communicate across functional and technical lines.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and willingness to learn and adopt quickly.
• Ability to work independently with limited general supervision and deal with ambiguity.
• Ability to collaborate with a diverse set of business customers and drive consensus when conflicting requirements are identified.
• Strong business knowledge and strong technical application experience.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Financial benefits including equity and sign-on payments
• Comprehensive employee benefits package