Senior Analyst - Finance Applications

Join Pitney Bowes as a Senior Analyst - Finance Applications

Impact

As a Senior Analyst - Finance Applications you will work with the team to support the Global Finance operations, specifically on the Accounts Payable and Treasury Management areas. This helps our internal clients run an world class Treasury and Accounts Payable functions, making the best use of the information available and the supporting technologies, translating operational excellence into top class service levels for our clients and partners. Your career with Pitney Bowes will allow you to participate in the largest transformation initiative the enterprise has gone through, you will be able to contribute to this transformation and shape the future of our company. This position is located in Shelton, CT with clients located in the Fairfield County and international locations.

The Job

• Lead the design, deployment and support for the Treasury and Accounts Payable processes in the context of our transformation program and shared services model, using the SAP platform as the core solution set.
• Work with onsite and offshore teams to ensure that project timelines, milestones and KPIs are reached and that production issues are fixed as per support SLAs, acting as the liaison between business and implementation, development and support teams to prioritize needs and requests.
• Gather requirements from business users for projects and enhancement initiatives, preparing the required functional specifications, ensuring that functional requirements are translated into technical solutions that are scalable and flexible.
• Provide IT project leadership for transformational finance initiatives and integrations, building relationships and interact with external vendors (banks, consulting firms, software vendors, etc.) as and when required to deliver business solutions.
• Act as the key point of contact between the business users and TechCentral, engaging with other SAP and Non-SAP teams (BI, Middleware, Infrastructure, etc.) providing a single point of contact to the business partners and providing insight to technical solutions.
  

Qualification

Education

• Undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems is preferred; advanced degree MS/MBA and technical certification in SAP is a plus.

Experience/Certifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in SAP Finance (Accounts Payable) and Treasury (Core Treasury, Cash Management, Treasury and Risk Management, In-house banking)
• Full SDLC experience
• Candidate must either be a citizen, have a valid green card, or current H1B visa. PB is not in the position to legally sponsor any candidate at this time.

Technical Skills

• Experience integrating SAP with commonly used bolt-on/add-on technologies (OB10, B2B, Sungard, SWIFT, etc.)
• Hands-on experience handling onsite/offshore production support teams is desirable.
• Very Strong knowledge of processes across the entire Financial Managements flow and its relations to SAP functionality and modules is a must, including but not limited to: G/L, Accounts Payable, Materials Management/Invoice Verification, B2B, Project Systems, and Investment Management
• Knowledge of best practices in different industries (e.g. Software, Professional Services and Manufacturing) and the use of SAP as a best practice enabler is a plus
• Must have a proven track record in full lifecycle engagements, from business case preparation to requirements gathering, blueprint, building, testing and implementation of solutions based on business requirements and using industry recognized methodologies
• Integration knowledge of Finance with Sales and Logistic areas is desired
  Soft Skills
• Strong communication skills that enable the candidate to work independently with business and IT partners throughout the organization and during the engagement lifecycle are required
• Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to work in a fast moving environment, demonstrated agility and ability to quickly adapt to change
• Must be able to relate to all levels of the user community and translate technical language into business language appropriately
• Must be a self-starter and a team player that motivates and educates other team members, inspiring behavioral change of team members and business counterparts as per PB vision

The Team

The TechCentral team provides, deploys and supports the technology solutions that are core to support Pitney Bowes operations and delivery of world class solutions for our clients worldwide. Together with our business partners we make Pitney Bowes more successful by being a premiere source of ideas for solutions, capabilities and implementation excellence. By sharing our business partners' perspective and focusing on desired outcomes we use our business and technology expertise and skill to deliver high-value solutions and experiences not available from anyone else. Expanding the value of our contribution we promote personal growth, opportunities to work with the best people and ideas and exploit all our individual and collective capabilities. We see the direct linkage between our actions, people and skills in the success of our company.

Pitney Bowes, a global technology company, provides shipping & mailing solutions, data management software, and location intelligence offerings, powering billions of physical and digital transactions in the connected and borderless world of commerce. Helping clients achieve their greatest commerce potential are Pitney Bowes' 16,000+ passionate employees around the world, our relentless pursuit of innovation with over 2,300 active patents, and our focus on clients, who are at the center of all that we do - from small businesses to 90% of the Fortune 500.

Pitney Bowes is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer that values diversity in the workplace. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

All interested individuals must apply online. Pitney Bowes is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that values diversity and inclusiveness in the workplace. Women, Minorities, Individuals with Disabilities and Veterans are encouraged to apply.