Application owner & Business Analyst in Finance

Scope

Our mission as a Corporate Digital Transformation Team is to sustain EVS business activities by monitoring business processes, managing corporate applications & data architecture and contributing to key strategic projects.  

As a Business Analyst and Application owner, your role is to sustain the entire life cycle of corporate applications including design, implementation, continuous improvements, and maintenance/support to keep the solutions aligned with business evolution and strategic ambitions.

Job Description

As an application owner, you  

• Define and manage the full lifecycle and backlog of corporate applications you own. 
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure alignment.  
• Proactively identify business needs, propose improvements, and ensure consistency across applications and processes.  
• Manage upgrades, maintenance, access rights, licenses, and security for applications.  
• Prioritize and manage all application requests, applying the most appropriate processes.  
• Respond to, investigate, and resolve support issues or incidents, ensuring prompt follow-up.  
• Build and manage the application backlog with key stakeholders, prioritizing change requests and improvement suggestions.  
• Collaborate with external partners and experts to ensure efficiency and consistency.  
• Manage application integrations and dependencies with other corporate systems.  
• Maintain accurate documentation for each application and ensure availability to relevant audiences.  
• Regularly update and test the business continuity plan for your applications.  

As a business analyst,  you will contribute to corporate digital transformation projects, by accomplishing some or all of the following tasks :  

• Collecting and challenging business needs, and translating them into functional requirements. 
• Participating in the selection of new solutions to ensure compatibility with corporate applications and integration ease. 
• Reviewing business processes to align them with solutions while staying close to standards. 
• Providing functional designs and formalizing solution/application architecture. 
• Creating, testing, and validating functional requirements. 
• Configuring applications and defining integration needs with other systems.  
• Defining and configuring security roles and access rights, following security guidelines, and collaborating with the Security team when needed.  
• Coordinating infrastructure work with the IT team and supporting integration testing.  
• Coordinating UAT testing and preparing data migration plans (Export/Import).  
• Contributing to the development of the cut-over plan. 

Profile

Qualifications : 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Economics  
• 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst

Technical skills :

• Strong understanding of financial principles and practices, including revenue recognition, financial reporting, and budgeting.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE & F&O is a significant asset
• Knowledge of O365 and Azure DevOps will ease the onboarding
• Knowledge or experience of the following topics is a plus:  
  • Conception of data models / database schema
  • UML diagrams and BPMN annotations
  • Micro service architecture and API
  • Power Automate
  • Power BI
  • Power Apps 

Soft skills :

• Good analytical skills
• Excellent analytical skills 
• Positive and problem-solving mindset
• Strong customers focus with the ability to manage expectations appropriately, constructively challenge requests and build a long-term relationship with key stakeholders
• Ability to prioritize work efforts by balancing operational tasks with a longer-term strategic task
• Team player, autonomous & structured/organized
• Resilient & dynamic
• Excellent oral and written communication skills both in French and English
• Will to learn and continuously evolve 

Languages :

• Fluent in English
• French is an asset

Offer

You will benefit from working in a friendly, lively environment having ambitious commercial objectives. Our dynamic team brings the best out of motivated potentials. In addition, you will receive a competitive salary and a range of other employee benefits.

Check out our website if you want to know more about why you should join EVS !