Product/Business Analyst

Job Description

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our company has codified its 130-year legacy. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

We know that our people are the key to our success, which is why this team works to attract, develop, retain and inspire our people so that they can learn, grow and make a true impact on the world. Together we collaborate to create a culturally rich, diverse organization ensuring we remain innovative and agile.

We are looking for an energetic professional to join our Enterprise Information Technology team to help us identify and deliver business solutions, in partnership with our company's Finance and Information Technology colleagues, to our most critical organizational and people management functions across the company leveraging the advanced cloud-based solutions in the technology marketplace. This candidate will be critical to helping us shift to modern ways of working to accelerate the execution of our strategy to increase flexibility, accelerate time-to-market of solutions, and drive significant business value.

As a Product/Business Analyst within the IT group, you will:

• Establish and maintain relationships with global Finance and IT colleagues to help accelerate the delivery of our business solutions.
• Gain a deep understanding of the Finance business processes, systems, and data that support strategic processes and programs related to financial close, consolidation, and external reporting.
• Develop an understanding of the various technology solutions that can be applied to requirements.
• Actively participate and collaborate on the technical implementation of key applications to help ensure alignment between business needs and solutions.
• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate new ideas and proposed methods for practicality and ease of implementation.
• Demonstrate skill in using an open communication style that actively acknowledges other thoughts and opinions.
• Demonstrate ability to independently solve problems that arise within job responsibility and expectations.
• Share best practices, tools, and techniques across product teams.
• Partner with our vendors to ensure optimal solutions and to enhance the capabilities of their products to improve overall value provided.
• Be part of agile teams and collectively work towards common goals.
• Able to succeed in a dynamic, rapidly changing, highly matrixed business environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Gain deep subject-matter expertise on the finance business process to manage sales, inventory, and product cost data as it relates to the calculation and reconciliation of Intercompany Profit.
• Gather and document business process and business / user needs to support the implementation of software products and/or services
• Partner with business stakeholders on the development business cases to support the justification for undertaking a project, program or portfolio, including the benefit, cost and risk of alternative options, and rationale for the preferred solution.
• Assist with the prioritization of IT backlog in support of the finance business process to manage sales, inventory, and product cost data as it relates to the calculation and reconciliation of Intercompany Profit.
• Lead the planning, designing, and assist the business on the coordination of testing activities and business change management, as part of overall solution implementation
• Partner on assessment of the current state solutions and support development of roadmaps to deliver greater business value and maintain a secure and modern technology landscape.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience, with at least 5+ years of experience working with financial systems.
• Strong Data Analysis skills with knowledge of SAP transactions and data engineering skills in a modern IT environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to quickly establish credibility and trust with a variety of stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills including the ability to communicate with both a business and technical audience.
• Critical thinker who can effectively embrace new ideas and technologies while balancing the needs of stakeholders and users.
• Some experience in Web Development (HTML, CSS, API, Javascript, etc.), and Data Modeling/Design, related AWS components
• Demonstrable experience in contributing to design, build, and support of large scale IT solutions using modern technologies.
• Experience working on Agile teams and knowledge of Scrum framework.

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In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

1st - Day

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Required Skills:

Benefits Administration, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management

Preferred Skills:

Business Analysis, Business Analysis, Business Case Analyses, Business Case Development, Business Data Analytics, Business Intelligence Implementation, Business Management, Business Process Development, Business Process Modeling, Business Software, Business Systems, Cash Management, Corporate Portfolio Management, Financial Process Improvement, Financial Regulation, Financial Review, Financial Technology, Inventory Management, Investment Management, Investment Performance Reporting, IT Business Management, IT Executive Management, ITIL Management, IT Performance Management, IT Project Lifecycle {+ 11 more}

Job Posting End Date

06/11/2024

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Job Posting End Date:06/11/2024

A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.

Requisition ID:R291367

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