Founded in 1891, Seattle Pacific University has a long and distinguished history in Christian higher education. Located just minutes from downtown Seattle, SPU seeks to be a premier Christian University fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community. Seattle Pacific University seeks applicants committed to its Christian mission.
Diversity Statement
As part of our mission of cultural engagement, SPU is committed to building an excellent and diverse staff and faculty. Diversity is an ethos that is inseparable from our Christian faith. At SPU, we recognize diversity as a basic feature of God's creation and a core theme of the gospel. At the heart of our mission-centered commitment to becoming a more diverse community is a desire to represent the breadth of God's kingdom more fully.
We strive to become a workplace of choice and to recruit, develop, and retain faculty and staff who can embrace, value, and engage differences with humility and care. We invite you to join us on our journey by starting a career at SPU! Learn more about SPU's commitment to diversity
and opportunities
for our employees to deepen their capacity to serve our increasingly diverse student body.
Seattle Pacific University provides reasonable accommodation to applicants. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the application or hiring process please contact the Human Resources Department at (206)281-2809, or email hr@spu.edu
. Notification must be given at least five (5) working days before the accommodation is needed.
Job Description:
General Summary:
The Financial Business Systems Analyst (FBSA) works within a cross-functional team to analyze business processes and systems in the Finance & HR space, designing and implementing automated solutions to support Finance's and HR's critical functions. The FBSA loves data and has a passion for transforming data into usable information. The FBSA also administrates and supports enterprise software systems including training, documentation, configuration, and system upgrades.
Job duties include:
Business Systems Analysis
Build and maintain positive, constructive partnering relationships with business units and have a deep understanding of their work environment, strategic goals and data systems. Maintain expertise in SPU's Finance and HR enterprise software portfolio. Assess business needs, provide technical recommendations that augment and enhance productivity, efficiency and effectiveness and implement them. Assist Finance and HR with the transition of resources, individuals and business processes impacted by projects. Translate recommendations into functional and technical requirements, utilizing industry standard documentation tools and practices for business analysis.
Enterprise Software Systems
Provide technical assistance, support, triage, research and troubleshooting for enterprise technology systems in conjunction with the Computer Information Systems team. Manage the data integrity of the Finance and HR applications and support the best use of financial data through data queries and maintaining integrity of Finance & HR databases. Assist with design, development and coding of Finance and HR enterprise technology solutions and custom systems. Administrate Finance and HR enterprise technology systems, supervise system upgrades and communicate technology changes to campus stakeholders.
Project Management
Lead the planning, review, and execution of smaller Finance/HR technology projects. Take ownership of project meetings, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risk assessment, requirements gathering, etc. while working with cross-functional teams, and proactively identifying and resolving roadblocks. Lead project teams in setting schedules and expectations while balancing technical requirements, stakeholder needs and project constraints. Ensure open communication across project teams. Assist AVP Finance/Controller with duties above on larger projects.
Documentation, Policies and Procedures
Create and manage documentation, policy and appropriate procedures necessary to: enforce standards, communicate best practices, define roles and responsibilities, and sustain ongoing IT operations. Define and promote effective documentation best practices internally and externally. Facilitate training for new systems implementations.
Software and System Security
Enforce policies and security measures to safeguard organizational information against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure, control data system access permissions and privileges. Maintain working knowledge of current security issues, laws and policies related to data and enterprise systems. Conduct financial system related IT controls such as user access reviews and SOC2 evaluations. Manage hardware and software for the Finance and HR offices including maintaining inventory listings and coordinating installation of new equipment and tools.
Continuous Improvement
Stay current with business systems analysis and project management industry best practices, tools, technologies and methodologies. Incorporates new knowledge and ideas into corporate strategy, policy and standards.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or demonstration of equivalent skillset.
Ability to conduct business analysis, process re-engineering, and successful implementation with users.
Demonstrated ability to manage technical and non-technical projects including schedules, deliverables, stakeholder and change management.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills including: facilitation, leading meetings/discussions, giving group presentations, and problem resolution/mediation.
Strong written/technical writing skills for developing comprehensive specifications, documentation and training for business and software functionality.
Familiarity with Finance and HR enterprise data systems and their operation.
Demonstrated problem solving, troubleshooting, critical thinking, and organizational skills.
Strong initiative, internal drive to meet customer needs, ability to self-manage and achieve results despite ambiguity. Curiosity is key to success in this role.
Preferred qualifications:
Strong understanding of relational databases and/or demonstrated ability to author SQL queries.
Demonstrated ability to write, parse, or debug code using general programming knowledge.
Experience in a Higher Education environment.
Experience with Banner (Elucian).
Advanced user of Microsoft Office 365 tools (Word, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, etc.), or similar.
Proficient with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Stash, etc.), or similar.
Experience with reporting and business intelligence software (e.g.: Argos, Tableau, etc.).
CBAP, PMP, MIS, or related Master's degree.
Additional Information:
Position will remain open until filled.
Salary: $70,000 - $85,000 DOE
This is a full time position with excellent benefits. SPU pays the employee premium for medical, dental, and vision insurance. SPU makes contributions to an employee HSA account and to a retirement account after one year of eligibility in the plan. Tuition discount program available for the employee and qualified immediate family members.
Application Instructions:
Please submit a cover letter and resume along with the online application.
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