Business Analyst, Project Accounting

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works behind the scenes to support operational excellence. Our functional services teams (FSTs) provide services to 22,000 employees in over 400 locations worldwide. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our FSTs are vital to making our Company stronger.

Your Opportunity

Reporting to the Director Finance/Project Accounting Solution Delivery within the Business Experience (BX) group, this position is responsible for engaging with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to translate their business needs into system solutions that achieve desired outcomes.

To accomplish this, the analyst develops a close relationship with designated business process leads and undertakes a disciplined approach to develop a keen understanding of business requirements and engages with system experts to design and validate system solutions. This position will predominantly focus on Project Accounting including accounting for revenue, inter-company charges, project setup, costing and billing and associated business processes that may include project delivery tools.

Key Responsibilities\:

• Engaging with Business Process Leads to maintain an understanding of the business domain and current and future needs.
• Analyzing current state business processes, identifying pain-points, and developing recommendations for process/system improvement.
• Scoping business requirements and formulating a plan with the technical teams to optimally solicit detailed requirements to design and develop the solution most efficiently.
• Combining your domain experience with the business analysis discipline to perform the following activities\:
  • Conducting stakeholder workshops to elicit requirements.
  • Developing process models and other project deliverables using Confluence, Jira, or Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint.
  • Assisting in the research, recommendation, and implementation of system solutions.
  • Facilitating formal user acceptance testing and participating in testing activities such as test case creation, execution, and issue resolution.
• Adhering to Stantec’s Solution Delivery Framework and Change Management process requirements.
• Supporting cross-functional programs and projects that may include Finance, IT, Payroll, Project Accounting, and other user communities.
• Being an advocate for business process management.
• Processing service requests, coordinating and participating in testing and implementation for large scale upgrades and integrations.
• Assisting with day-to-day operational issues.