OpenText

Sr. Business Process Analyst

OpenText$72K — $108K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting, or 3-5 years of related experience
  • Strong advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
  • Experience with financial modeling and risk management concepts
  • Knowledge of Data Analytics tools and applications is preferred
  • Critical thinking and keen attention to detail

Responsibilities

  • Develop cash disbursement forecasts and insights for stakeholders
  • Perform variance analysis to identify business and economic drivers
  • Lead the creation and maintenance of financial models, including sensitivity analyses
  • Drive reporting automation for increased team efficiency
  • Manage quarter-end activities, including dashboard metrics preparation
  • Synthesize key trends for monthly and quarterly management reporting
  • Lead special projects to enhance business processes and models

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence financial performance within a global business
  • Engagement with senior leadership through insightful reporting
  • Participation in special projects that drive continuous improvement
  • Development of financial modeling skills and data analytics capabilities
Full Job Description
YOUR IMPACT

Reporting to the Source-to-Pay (S2P) Reporting Leader, the S2P Senior Business Analyst is responsible for developing cash disbursement forecasts and delivering reporting and insights to internal stakeholders, playing a key role within the finance team by supporting financial and operational performance analysis across a global business. This role focuses on building vendor spend models to support S2P and FP&A teams, while leading the execution of monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting processes to ensure accuracy and timely delivery, including preparing materials for management review and communicating insights to senior leadership. The individual also drives continuous improvement by streamlining forecasting processes through automation, data analytics, and system expertise, while establishing best practices to enhance overall business performance management.

WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS
  • Perform variance analysis by comparing financial results to annual plan, prior forecast, and prior year to identify sourcing activities, vendor negotiations, business drivers, and economic drivers that impact our models.
  • You will lead the development and maintenance of financial models, including sensitivity analysis, to support overall business objectives.
  • Build capabilities in reporting automation to drive efficiency for the team.
  • Perform ad hoc analysis, communicate findings, and provide a recommendation on next step.
  • Own quarter-end activities include preparing and submitting dashboard metrics on global spend.
  • Lead monthly and quarterly management reporting, distilling/synthesizing key trends, assessing current and future business risks, and communicating key messages to senior leadership.
  • Lead special projects including building new models/templates, revamping existing processes, and ad-hoc analyses that arise as the business changes.
  • Successful candidates will have high attention to details, excellent analytical skills, and an initiative-taker mentality. In addition, strong professionalism and communication skills are crucial to proactively partner with key stakeholders

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

  • Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, or Accounting or 3-5 years of relative experience
  • Knowledge of Data Analytics tools, concepts, and applications is highly preferred.
  • You have experience across a broad range of subject matter, including moderate to complex financial modeling and advanced Excel skills, with strong proficiency in PowerPoint and working knowledge of finance and risk management concepts such as balance sheet management and stress testing.
  • You know that details matter. You notice things that others do not. Your critical thinking skills help to inform your decision making.
  • You give meaning to data. You enjoy investigating complex problems and making sense of information. You communicate detailed information in a meaningful way.
  • Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work, and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.


ONE LAST THING

About OpenText

OpenText Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management software. The company is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. OpenText software applications manage content or unstructured data for large companies, government agencies, and professional service firms. OpenText aims to help customers digitize their operations and optimize their information management processes. The company has made several acquisitions over the years to expand its product offerings and customer base. OpenText has a global presence with offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Learn more about OpenText
Size
14,300 employees
Market Cap
$7.8 billion
Industry
Founded
1991
5 Year Trend
+8.8%
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