Senior Systems Analyst - Corporate Systems Finance

Overview:

TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a global operator, franchisor, and licensor of hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. The company is primarily focused on management, franchising, and licensing of its lodging properties. It also occasionally develops, acquires or renovates hotel and residential properties, directly and through partnerships, joint ventures, and other business structures with third parties.

Position: Senior Systems Analyst - Corporate Systems Finance

Location: Bethesda MD 20817

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Remote

Job Description:

• Leads workgroups and/or functions as a technical expert of Corporate Systems applications and platforms.

• Resolves and makes decisions on complex, non-routine service requests with limited to moderate risk.

• Performs research, analysis, design, creation and implementation of applications to meet current and future user requirements.

• Directs Service Providers, vendors and team members to modify and maintain existing applications to address changes in business processes.

• Ensures Service Providers achieve contracted service delivery outcomes.

• Monitors multiple projects by Service Providers and internally managed applications to successful completion, maintaining scope within the time and budget constraints.

• The candidate will provide day to day technology product leadership while coordinating with finance discipline partners, 3rd party vendors and many IT departments including but not limited to Security, Privacy, network teams, operations, and infrastructure teams.

• Primary responsibilities include Technical Lead oversight of Client financial applications. In scope applications/platforms may include PeopleSoft, Microsoft Access, Sun Systems, and SaaS applications.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification

• Minimum 7 years' experience in information technology application development and production systems support

• Demonstrated ability to pick up/assimilate new applications/technologies

• Demonstrated problem solving and troubleshooting skills. Ability to troubleshoot issues and follow through to a resolution

• Service Provider/vendor management experience

• Experience with and knowledge of IT outsourcing activities in a managed services environment. Technology leadership experience leading/managing and collaborating with multiple service providers in support of custom outsourced applications and SaaS software

• Ability to listen and understand business requirements, ask questions, and translate the requirements into design documents

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy-to-understand business terms

• Extensive experience with data integrations across a variety of platforms

• Strong working knowledge of SQL

• Experience developing test plans, test scripts, and managing unit, system, regression and user acceptance testing

• Proven ability to support all aspects of large, complex applications with multiple stakeholders

• Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple support request while working on time sensitive projects and upgrades

• Experience in waterfall and/or agile software methodologies

• Very strong attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree

• Experience with finance related applications

• Experience with PeopleSoft, Microsoft Access, Oracle, JIRA, AWS platform

• Technology leadership experience in a sourced or internally managed environment

• Experience with batch/automated scheduling tools and alarming, single sign-on, IT Service Management software (e.g., ServiceNow)

• Ability to work independently, but know when to ask for help

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Technical Leadership

• Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate

• Provides financial input on department or project budgets, capital expenditures or other cost/resource estimates as requested

• Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes

Delivering Technology

• Performs more complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for service delivery processes and projects

• Supports existing applications and large projects in a minimum of one environment

• Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services Providers

• Validates completeness of requirements prior to Service Provider or internally managed team solutioning

• Through the service provider or internally managed teams, plans and coordinates complex implementation overseeing quality control of application functional design, usability, functionality, and implementation

• Advises support desk on change management as it relates to support and training of new system

• Ensures all projects follow the defined development and business case processes

• Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams

• Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels

IT Governance

• Follows all defined IR standards and processes (i.e., IT Governance, SM&G, Architecture, etc.), and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed

• Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk

• Follows the defined project management standards and processes

Service Provider, COTS and Custom Application Management

• Validates that Service Providers and internal teams develop and manage respective aspects of a project plan, including schedules, deliverables, and appropriate metrics

• Makes short term plans for the team to effectively utilize resources

• Monitors Service Provider and internal team's outcomes

• Reviews estimates of work effort for client project provided by Service Providers and internal teams for accuracy

• Facilitates timely resolution of service delivery problems and minimizes the impact to clients

• Functions as an applications expert for both senior leadership and project teams in effective utilization of existing technology in business technical applications, either enterprise-wise or business-wide

• Leads workgroup/project team or functions as a technical specialist including Salesforce platform functionality

MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES

Leadership

Communication - Conveys information and ideas to others in a convincing and engaging manner through a variety of methods

Leading Through Vision and Values - Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of employee decision making and action

Managing Change - Initiates and/or manages the change process and energizes it on an ongoing basis, taking steps to remove barriers or accelerate its pace; serves as role model for how to handle change by maintaining composure and performance level under pressure or when experiencing challenges

Problem Solving and Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; obtains and compares information from different sources to draw conclusions, develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions, solves problems, and chooses a course of action.

Professional Demeanor - Exhibits behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; makes a good first impression and represents the company in alignment with its values.

Strategy Development - Develops business plans by exploring and systematically evaluating opportunities with the greatest potential for producing positive results; ensures successful preparation and execution of business plans through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes

Managing Execution

Building a Successful Team - Uses an effective interpersonal style to build a cohesive team; inspires and sustains team cohesion and engagement by focusing the team on its mission and importance to the organization.

Strategy Execution Ensures successful execution across of business plans designed to maximize customer satisfaction, profitability, and market share through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes.

Driving for Results - Sets high standards of performance for self and/or others; assumes responsibility for work objectives; initiates, focuses, and monitors the efforts of self and/or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively takes action and goes beyond what is required.

Building Relationships

Customer Relationships - Develops and sustains relationships based on an understanding of customer/stakeholder needs and actions consistent with the company's service standards.

• Global Mindset - Supports employees and business partners with diverse styles, abilities, motivations, and/or cultural perspectives; utilizes differences to drive innovation, engagement and enhance business results; and ensures employees are given the opportunity to contribute to their full potential.

Strategic Partnerships -

Develops collaborative relationships with fellow employees and business partners by making them feel valued, appreciated, and included; explores partnership opportunities with other people in and outside the organization; influences and leverages corporate and continental shared services and/or discipline leaders (e.g., HR, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Revenue Management) to achieve objectives; maintains effective external relations with government, business and industry in respective countries; performs effectively as a liaison between locations, disciplines, and corporate to ensure needed resources are received and corporate strategies are understood and executed.

Generating Talent and Organizational Capability

Developing Others - Supports the development of other's skills and capabilities so that they can fulfill current or future job/role responsibilities more effectively.

Organizational Capability - Evaluates and adapts the structure of assignments and work processes to best fit the needs and/or support the goals of an organizational unit.

Learning and Applying Professional Expertise

Continuous Learning - Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learns through their application.

Technical Acumen - Understanding and utilizing professional skills and knowledge in a specific functional area to conduct and manage everyday business operations and generate innovative solutions to approach function-specific work challenges

• Technical Intelligence: Knowledge and ability to define and apply appropriate technology to enhance business process
• Development Methodologies: Knowledge of general stages of SDLC framework and the application tiers within the development space.
• Information Security: Knowledge of the security considerations relevant within the development space, including industry best practices related to information security

Business Acumen - Understands and utilizes business information to manage everyday operations and generate innovative solutions to approach business and administrative challenges.

Basic Competencies - Fundamental competencies required for accomplishing basic work activities.

Basic Computer Skills - Using basic computer hardware and software (e.g., personal computers, word processing software, Internet browsers, etc.).

Mathematical Reasoning - The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly, correctly, and in a way that allows one to solve work-related issues.

Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents

Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Tek Wissen Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.