Senior Financial Systems Analyst

Description:

Canadian Division Integrated Financial Solutions (CDIFS) is a customer-focused team that provides professional, technical and operational support to the Canadian Division Finance function. The team analyzes, develops and maintains efficient, cost effective and controlled systems solutions for Finance using Manulife's enterprise-wide tools. CDIFS plays a role in divisional financial control oversight, and supports projects and initiatives to develop, improve and supervise finance systems and applications.

Reporting to the Manager, Financial System Services, the incumbent must own the analysis, creation, development and support of high quality, cost efficient solutions for Finance teams using Manulife enterprise-wide tools. The Senior Financial Systems Analyst must understand sophisticated finance and reporting requirements and develop technical solutions to meet CDN Division Finance business needs. The incumbent will serve as a role model and mentor for peers and junior team members by sharing knowledge and providing transparent and timely feedback while encouraging others to be engaged in the tasks and projects. The incumbent will research technology trends and make recommendations as to techniques, practices and tools used within the CDIFS team.

Key Accountabilities:

General Duties

• Provide strong technical and analytical support to Project Leads related to the tools and applications created and maintained by CDIFS
• Support the business and systems requirements related to CDIFS
• Work with business partners to design and develop complex applications and tools that present the results to the end-user in a manner that adds value and meets finance functions business requirements.
• Provide recommended project resource and schedule estimates to leader and track to actuals
• Work with leaders within CDIFS to recommend and implement technical solutions to drive business strategy and build process efficiencies
• Pro-actively look for new and outstanding technical opportunities to streamline finance processes and improve data quality and controls.
• Review Business Requirements, Systems Specifications and Testing documents and provide recommendations to manager for approval
• Due to the complexity of business applications, the Senior Analyst requires expert technical knowledge to understand what is required for the end-user
• Support required audit evidence to verify the output of systems applications
• Research, review and advise on technology tools/platforms for solution development testing and user support with CDIFS.

Application Development

• Analyze business requirements to develop the technical requirements, define scope and design software solution.
• Prepare technical specifications, test plans, change requests forms and maintain all documentation.
• Develop, test and deploy changes and enhancements to the applications within the production environment.
• Provide User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Steady State support.

Continuous Improvement

• Play a significant role in achieving process improvement goals and best practices in Finance
• Look for and analyze problems/process inefficiencies autonomously
• Demonstrate commitment towards continuously updating knowledge and skills