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Erickson Senior Living · 2 weeks ago

IT Business Analyst - Finance & Accounting Systems

Catonsville, MD

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$75K/yr - $88K/yr

5+ years exp

Erickson Senior Living is one of the country’s largest providers of senior living and health care, seeking an IT Business Analyst to support its finance and accounting teams. The role involves translating complex business needs into actionable requirements and facilitating communication between stakeholders and IT teams to enhance financial operations.

Hospital & Health Care

Responsibilities

Serve as a liaison between Finance & Accounting stakeholders and IT teams, ensuring shared understanding of business goals, challenges, and solution requirements

Lead the requirements process by eliciting, analyzing, validating, prioritizing, and documenting business needs, including functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and decision logs

Facilitate meetings, workshops, and discovery sessions to gather requirements, challenge assumptions, and identify root causes

Analyze business processes, systems, workflows, and integrations to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement or automation

Translate business requirements into clear, actionable specifications to support system design and development by technical teams

Collaborate with QA and project teams to define test scenarios, execute test plans, validate results, and support user acceptance testing (UAT)

Provide production support by investigating, troubleshooting, and resolving system or process issues related to finance and accounting applications

Participate actively in Scrum ceremonies and Agile team meetings, contributing to effective delivery and continuous improvement

Support system changes and adoption efforts related to evolving platforms, including the upcoming ERP replacement and Salesforce-based processes

Work independently on assigned initiatives while collaborating closely with senior business analysts and cross-functional partners

Qualification

Financial ERP application supportScrumAgile experienceSalesforce troubleshootingBusiness process analysisRequirements gathering toolsAnalytical skillsHealthcare experienceCommunication skills

Required

Minimum 5 years of relevant business analyst experience

Financial ERP application support experience required

Experience supporting Finance and Accounting business processes

Experience working in a Scrum and Agile environment, including participation in scrum ceremonies

Experience gathering and documenting requirements using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint

Hands-on experience with Salesforce, including troubleshooting and supporting business processes

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to management and non-technical audiences

Strong analytical skills, including the ability to integrate information from multiple sources and assess downstream impacts