Business Analyst at Parapet Cleaning Services

Job Description

Domiciled within our Finance Department, this position reports to the Chief Accountant and is looked upon to manage the cost benefits of all projects and contracts that come to the organization.

The incumbent will be an experienced, detail oriented, with adequate financial acumen and comfortable within a busy commercial environment.

Roles

• To participate in all aspects of business analysis activities.
• To assist in translating implementation options into detailed business requirement specifications.
• To assist in identifying and communicating risks / issues and potential scope downsides.
• To assist in identifying risk mitigation options and alternatives.
• To conduct cost/benefit analysis of all business case scenarios.
• To manage business operations of Sales, including interfaces with various systems, data quality, reconciliation and responsibility for publish SLAs.
• To understand the various dependencies and relationships across financial applications and work with cross system teams to improve data quality and data relevance.
• To be accountable for control & compliance to Internal Audits and other key business process controls.
• To ensure that all system enhancements meet both business and operations objectives (serviceability, agility and maintainability).
• To be responsible for incident management including Root Cause Analysis, Change Control Management and Knowledge Management.
• To propose solutions to existing issues and propose any innovative approaches (i.e. new metrics) to maximize the value of Sales Reporting to end users.
• To serve as escalation point for user inquiries about service and pricing hierarchies, budgets, forecast and data quality metrics/timelines.
• Proactively challenge existing processes, status quo and drive/implement changes as needed.
• To perform detailed financial analysis including advanced financial modeling, profitability analysis, return on investment/discounted cash flow analysis, monitoring business issues and impact to bottom line.
• To help in the development of budgets and re-forecast operations / financials of the company.
• To advise on the cost of business operations by establishing standard costs, collecting operational data.
• To provide guidance on projects cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures, provide trends and forecast, explaining processes and techniques and recommending actions.
• To improve and maintain company projects profitability by analyzing results, monitoring variances, identifying trends and advising the management on the gaps that needs timely action.

Job Specifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or related discipline or CPA
• 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Experience with large-scale applications preferred
• Strong system analysis skills
• Exceptional communication skills (written, oral, interpersonal)
• Ability to multi-task, deal effectively with ambiguity, and prioritize under pressure
• Strong problem solving ability and ability to utilize experience to improve processes and proactively drive opportunities to resolution without supervision.
• High attention to detail and ability to work within stringent deadlines