Principal Business Systems Analyst
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Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.
A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.
A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You'll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You'll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you-because when you feel valued, you're empowered to do your best work.
Job Summary
Partners with Business Groups to ensure delivery of end-to-end business application solutions aligned to the business and IT strategy, as well as the support of Oracle EPM Applications. Works with Business Groups to define their global technology roadmaps. Manages projects from inception to completion with matrix, global teams.
Responsibilities
Business Requirements Analysis
- Partners with team members and vendors to gather requirements
- Is respected by business for deep, cross functional business process expertise and innovative solutioning across platforms and systems/architectures
- Able to distill executive level requirements into appropriate discovery work plans and guide team members on good requirements gathering
Process Modeling and Design
- Partners with team members and vendors to model business processes
- Is respected by business for driving innovative process improvements
- Able to communicate process improvements at implementation and executive level
Stakeholder Management
- Supports senior stakeholders and management team in identifying, communicating to senior stakeholders
- Is recognized by senior managers as a skilled communicator, trusted to recognize and proactively manage key impacts and drive issue resolution
- Demonstrates value from realized projects
Solution Design
- Responsible to design strategic cross-functional and global solutions that align with long-term organizational goals and roadmaps
- Advises on solutions prepared by peers or supporting team, to ensure that good design practices are followed
- Is recognized as expert within the industry
- Establishes standards
Documentation
- Supports senior management by creating architecture, project management and roadmap documentation
Functional Design
- Develops functional design standards and methodologies to deliver robust, agile functional designs that may span multiple functional areas and applications
- Recognized for innovative, deep and long-term designs
- Keeps up to date with industry trends and vendor capabilities
- Develops functional designs in line with an Enterprise Architecture and the long-term business roadmap
- Collaborates with cross functional business and IT teams to ensure business needs are addressed in the functional designs
- Manages delivery scope and risks, and sets right expectations with stakeholders
- Mentors junior BSAs to produce functional designs
Architecture
- Application/integration architecture; constructs solutions across multiple functional areas and applications
Testing & Test Design
- Develops test strategy and execution to cover testing in an optimal amount of time
- Ensures cross functional testing coverage
- Organizes test labs for repetitive testing
- Drives methodology and best practices for defect resolution and triaging
- Ability to manage multiple cross functional projects running in parallel
- Optimizes release management to strike good balance between business goals and delivery capacity
- Ability to logically split bigger projects into value added releases to gain business value in progression
- Identifies and manages risks in release delivery
System Configurations
- Designs configurations methodology to drive consistency, robustness, speed and good governance
Day to Day Support (Production Support)
- Monitors and manages support metrics and trends for functional areas
- Drives team towards root cause identification and resolution
Training and change management
- Drives appropriate practices through collaboration with business
- Analyzes adoption rates and issues and assesses business case realization and proposes solutions to improve
Vendor Management
- Manages/leads individual consultants or consulting teams as assigned
- Participates in vendor advisory boards and user groups
- Is accountable for creating and negotiating vendor contracts, MSA/SOW, License Agreements, and driving through internal reviews with GTS leadership and Legal teams
Vendor & Application Technology Evaluation
- Executes and guides large-scale vendor evaluations by BSA staff, vets recommendation and negotiation communications for executive review
- Responsible for executive communications and cross functional stakeholder buy-in
- Brings thought leadership to influence technology roadmap and decisions
Qualifications
- 7+ years experience with Oracle EPM Cloud, specifically Planning and Budgeting (PBCS/EPBCS)
- Hands-on expertise in at least one additional EPM module: Profitability and Cost Management (PCM/EPCM) Narrative Reporting Enterprise Data Management (EDM)
- Strong knowledge of Smart View, Calculation Manager, and Data Management
- Proficiency in EPM Automate, REST APIs, and other integration tools for automation and data loads
- Experience with metadata management, security configuration, and workflow/approval processes within EPM
- Solid understanding of financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and optimize system performance
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and lead projects
- Bachelor's in Information Systems, Business or related field
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