Senior Financial Application Architect - JAX
Summary
Designs, configures, and supports planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation applications for First American's ServiceMac mortgage sub-servicing business. Day to day: requirements gathering, fit/gap analysis, building custom forms/scripts/reports, testing, troubleshooting, and acting as liaison between the Enterprise Application Services team and business users.
HOW YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE
- Research, design, develop, test and implement new planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation applications and systems.
- Requirements Gathering – Leads meetings to determine business needs and documents them.
- Conducts Feasibility study of the requirements
- Research financial management, budgeting, planning and forecasting packaged application functionality and features that could be implemented to meet business requirements.
- Performs Fit/Gap Analysis
- Configure application software to deliver new or modified functionality.
- Develops functional and technical specifications, design solutions and create forms and scripts based on application module capabilities
- Performs application support functions such as incident triage, research application bugs, respond to customer escalations, and other activities that lead to issue resolution
- Develops application extension solutions and resolves application issues..
- Acts as a liaison between the Enterprise Application Services team and the Business users.
- Prepare test plans and execute, lead and support user testing.
- Responsible for the resolution of production issues.
- Creates and manages service requests with application vendors to resolve application issues or functionality.
- Perform QA application testing.
- Modifies and enhances existing applications.
- Plans and/or monitors all the tasks and/or phases involved in successful delivery of application solution.
- Responsible for in-depth technical/functional knowledge of the application as well as business process knowledge of the groups using the application.
- Guides and mentors other resources as directed by leadership.
- Develop and maintain models and documentation necessary to describe intended standard functionality
- Performs installation, migration, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning and administration of financial/planning applications for enterprise clients
- Required to perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs.
- Other duties as assigned
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
Required Education, Experience, Certification/Licensure
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering , Finance, or related field
- Typically 5-7 years of directly related experience
- Subject matter expert one or more financial modules.
- Certification in planning, budgeting, forecasting or financial consolidation Applications – Large Packaged Software preferred
- Business Analysis Certification such as CBAP or CCBA preferred.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES (KSAs)
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Strong organizational or Project Management skills
- Requires problem solving and analytical skills, and the ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical users.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks, respond quickly to emergent problems, and focus both on long-range projects and immediate tasks required to maintain system functionality.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex business processes and systems.
- Experience working on projects involving multiple application modules and integration with other systems.
- Experience working on complex projects delivered on time and error-free.
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Working knowledge of planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation /packaged application functionality and features.
- Has background that combines functional expertise, business management and technical skills with an understanding of information technology.
- Familiarity creating process documentation, training procedures, and standard operating procedures.
- Standard Microsoft Office skill set.
- Fluent in multiple application development languages to an expert level.
- Expertise in designing programs and applications
- Ability to quickly grasp concepts related to industry specific design/development
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
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