Lead Financial Systems Support Analyst
🔍 Houston, Texas
POSITION SUMMARY
The Lead Analyst – Financial Systems Support (“Analyst”) is skilled in the technical support of one or more Financial applications and provides support services to business users. The primary focus for the Analyst is to be responsible for maintaining and monitoring the Financial Systems to maximize availability and performance, provide troubleshooting and corrective action to resolve issues, and insures the usability and support for application enhancements and bug fixes. Secondarily the Analyst will provide similar support for other Financial systems. The Lead Analyst will act as a Subject Matter Expert for application technical functionality, solutions, training, and documentation. Although the Lead Analyst position is not a pure development role, it will require the use of development and programmer competencies to complete work efforts.
JOB FUNCTIONS AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide technical direction/assistance for assigned applications
- Define technical solutions ensuring considerations for system stability, performance, and ongoing maintainability
- Identify solution alternatives to address issues raised throughout service request or incident lifecycle
- Utilize 3rd parties and vendor support as defined within existing support arrangements, and escalate additional (billable) support to appropriate IT management for approval
- Monitor incoming service requests and incidents for assigned application(s)
- Investigate and diagnose service requests or incidents according to their priority/rank, and identify the resolution and/or issue
- Work directly with users to identify and resolve issues adversely impacting business processes
- Adheres to and champions the IT Governance programs (e.g. change management, communication, and release management)
- Maintain end-to-end understanding of functional aspects of application and associated business processes
- Complete high level designs and associated estimates to meet defined requirements
- Monitor application backlog (service requests, incidents) and keep open items updated with current efforts
- Maintain documentation (run books, technical design, build, deployment, install guides) and process standards in area of responsibility along with regular audits to validate accuracy
- Develop documentation and provide training to users as appropriate
- Define potential improvement changes to resolve errors, prevent the recurrence of problems or improve system maintainability and stability for assigned applications
- Provide input to IT Project Management Office to support clear and concise requirements definitions
- Assist team members handling major incidents for assigned applications; identify the root cause and short or long term solutions
- Informally mentor less experienced team members on an as needed basis
- Prevent the replication of problems across multiple systems by sharing lessons learned and best practices with other team members and IT Management
- Develops customer relationships by making efforts to listen and understand the customer; anticipating and providing solutions to customer needs; giving high priority to customer satisfaction
MINIMUM ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, and/or equivalent work experience in a related field
- 5+ years of experience supporting Oracle Financial Cloud (OFC) technologies including OTBI, Oracle Reports, and integrations with other ETRM/CTRM applications (Allegro, RightAngle, W Energy (Waterfield), ICE, CME, or equivalents) preferably using Boomi
- 2+ years of experience with Onestream is preferred
- 3+ years of experience with Oracle and SQL databases (including stored procedures, triggers, and scripts)
- 3+ years of experience in application development or a programming language
- Familiarity with ITIL concepts and the ability to follow problem, change, and incident management processes and procedures.
- Familiarity with Sarbanes and Oxley IT Change management controls
- Regular and reliable attendance
Other Qualifications
In addition to the basic qualifications listed above, the following other position qualifications are required:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with an aptitude for problem solving
- Must be able to independently resolve issues and efficiently self-direct work activities based on the ability to capture, organize, and analyze information
- Experience delivering solutions that align with business strategies
- Experience troubleshooting complicated issues across multiple systems and driving to solutions
- Experience supporting resources performing user acceptance, regression and other required system tests, ensuring that system and/or related integration issues that arise are identified, researched and closed in a timely manner
- Experience providing technical solutions to non-technical individuals
- Demonstrated team building skills
- Ability to deal with internal employees and external business contacts while conveying a positive, service-oriented attitude
- Willingness to travel to company locations (up to 5%)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 2+ years of experience with PowerBI is helpful
- ITIL v3 Foundations certified
- Familiarity with Waterfall and Agile development methodologies
- Working knowledge and experience in Microsoft Technologies (Microsoft Certifications)
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:
Targa Resources provides equal employment opportunities based on merit, experience, and other work-related criteria and without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, age, pregnancy, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We also strive to provide reasonable accommodation to employees’ beliefs and practices that do not conflict with Targa’s policies and applicable law. We value the unique contributions that every employee brings to their role with Targa.