University of Michigan

Business Systems Analyst Sr

University of Michigan$80K — $110K *
Hospitals & Medical Centers
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree required
  • 1-7+ years experience in financial systems, data analytics, or financial analysis based on level
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases
  • Familiarity with Oracle Analytics Cloud and Enterprise Performance Management
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

  • Ensure data quality and consistency across financial applications
  • Manage changes in application hierarchies and statistics
  • Analyze requests for alignment with data governance principles
  • Coordinate with stakeholders for change documentation
  • Implement application changes from test to production environments
  • Conduct validation and testing procedures to safeguard data accuracy
  • Provide ad hoc analysis and end-user support as needed

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on day one
  • Generous retirement savings plan with a 2:1 match
Full Job Description
Job Summary

The Michigan Medicine Financial Systems team provides the leadership, oversight, and technical support for the suite of financial products, applications, and datasets used by the Finance Organization of Michigan Medicine for financial reporting, planning, analytics, and decision-making. The team is responsible for delivering on-time enterprise-level reporting and business intelligence systems, managing concurrent high-visibility projects to support new initiatives, guiding data stewardship, and informing and supporting institutional enterprise objectives.

The Financial Systems Production team focuses on administration and end-user support to deliver on-time production systems, ensuring high data quality and exceptional business value to our stakeholders. Responsibilities include all aspects of administering enterprise-level reporting solutions.

The Financial Systems Analyst's primary focus is on the production administration of the solutions the team manages and all underlying data sources and processes to support them. The role is responsible for providing timely, accessible, and accurate data according to the Finance department's defined timelines.

This role is responsible for managing and administering the enterprise-level reporting solutions, integrating cloud-hosted reporting applications, data warehouse and critical organization business processes. This position requires a thorough understanding of accounting and finance principles to deliver financial systems solutions that drive value and decision-making across the institution. This position is responsible for analyzing and translating business, information, and technical requirements into enterprise-level reporting solutions. This role is responsible for researching and maintaining knowledge of current and emerging technologies to solve business problems, particularly with a focus on cloud-hosted solutions. Actively participating in problem-solving and developing integrated solutions within a complex, varied, and evolving technical landscape will be an essential part of this position. This role serves as a liaison between end users, stakeholders, and the solutions architects to propose changes in process, policy, standards, application and end user experience to peers and leadership. In addition, this position will partner with key stakeholders and leadership in requirement gathering and data analysis as well as work with team solutions architects to deliver enterprise reporting solutions.

The Production Financial Systems Analyst must possess strong finance, accounting, and healthcare business practices knowledge. This role will require a strong technical understanding of relational database models, SQL, and multiple Oracle technologies, including Oracle Cloud Analytics and Cloud EPM applications.

Responsibilities*

Monthly Production Validations & Change Management Process 40%
  • Ensure data quality and consistency throughout all production applications:
    **Finance BI (Oracle Cloud Analytics application used for decision support across Michigan Medicine Finance)
    **Multiple Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud Applications.
  • Change Management monthly processing of hierarchies and statistics in all applications.
  • Analyze the request for adherence to our one version of the truth philosophy, as well as the impact on application and technical processes.
  • Partner with the requestor on monthly hierarchy changes. Coordinating with the requester to complete the request documentation
  • Implement changes in the test environment and migrate changes to production.
  • Communicate monthly changes to the requestor, stakeholders, and the Financial Systems team.
  • Tie out various financial systems datasets back to PeopleSoft (source system) and other source systems monthly in Test and Production environments for all applications.
  • Monthly Unit of Service (UOS) static and metrics validations
  • Manage all Test and Production data tie-outs for monthly and annual processing in all applications.
  • Manage all monthly report delivery solutions, including maintaining distribution, automation, and development of enhancements.
  • Report and Query Building for internal and external customers using tools such as Oracle BI Publisher, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Data Visualizer and Narrative Reporting
  • Work with Solutions Architects on monthly and annual tie-out processing and implement new processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
  • Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of Financial Systems data sets.
  • Collaborate with Vendor technical teams, internal enterprise architecture, and application infrastructure teams to resolve technical issues and understand systems dependencies and compatibility.
  • Function as a back-up for production Financial Systems Analyst teammates to support month-end, quarter-end and annual reporting tasks.


Documentation, Validation, and Governance 40%
  • Prepares and conducts comprehensive testing and validation procedures.
  • Continuously review month-end, quarter-end, and year-end validation processes, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and efficiency.
  • Full integration of new processes into documentation and training
  • Managing the inventory of system documentation and instructions utilizing searchable dynamic solutions
  • Maintaining training and end-user documentation
  • Maintaining and periodically scheduled testing of the full application disaster recovery across all production systems
  • Create and maintain Data Governance documentation, including but not limited to:
    **Data Dictionaries
    **Data/Process flow diagrams
    **Data Model Fact Matrices


Ad Hoc 20%
  • Go to person for ad hoc analysis, end-user requests to understand data flows, data dependencies, and appropriate use and consumption of Finance-presented data.
    Items may include, but are not limited to:
    **Conducting peer and end-user training
    **Support special projects within Financial Systems as well as Michigan Medicine Finance
    **Support compliance efforts across the organization.
    **Assist with other projects as required to contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the work.
    **Helpdesk and end-user support
    **Coach and mentor junior staff.

Required Qualifications*

Required Qualifications
BA/BS degree
  • 1+ years of financial systems, data analytics, or financial analysis experience, at the Associate level
  • 1-5 years of financial systems, data analytics, or financial analysis experience, Intermediate level
  • 5-7 years of financial systems, data analytics, or financial analysis experience. Senior level
  • 7+ years of financial systems, data analytics, or financial analysis experience, Lead level

Desired Qualifications*

Desired Qualifications
  • Detailed knowledge and understanding of SQL.
  • Experience with data modeling and relational databases.
  • Demonstrated creative critical thinking skills.
  • Ability to assess competing priorities, manage workflow and meet operational deadlines.
  • Must work well independently and as part of a team.
  • Able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
  • Excellent collaboration and coordination skills for an effective relationship with multiple teams, subject matter experts (SMEs), and customers
  • Experience with Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL)
  • Experience integrating data from multiple sources.
  • Knowledge and understanding of technical accounting principles.
  • Experience with Oracle Analytics Cloud or similar BI tools.
  • Experience with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Products
  • Understanding of common IT business analysis, and/or project management methodologies and best practices
  • Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • Experience with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud applications.
  • Experience with multidimensional DBMS.
  • Experience with query, report writing, and data visualization tools.
  • Clarity Certification or Proficiency
  • Experience working with Financial and Clinical Healthcare data.

What Benefits can you Look Forward to?
  • Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
  • 2:1 Match on retirement savings

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes .

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.

Job Detail

Job Opening ID

279823

Working Title

Business Systems Analyst Sr

Job Title

Business Systems Analyst Sr

Work Location

Michigan Medicine - Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

Modes of Work

Hybrid

Full/Part Time

Full-Time

Regular/Temporary

Regular

FLSA Status

Exempt

Organizational Group

Exec Vp Med Affairs

Department

MM Financial Srvcs

Posting Begin/End Date

7/08/2026 - 9/06/2026

Career Interest

Information Technology

About University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan system. The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 in Detroit, as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, 20 years before the territory became a state. The school moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 acres (16 ha) of what is now known as Central Campus. Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university campus has expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 34 million gross square feet (781 acres or 3.16 km²), and has two satellite campuses located in Flint and Dearborn. The University of Michigan is a founding member of the Association of American Universities.
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