**SUMMARY**:
The primary objective of this role is to work directly with business stakeholders to understand their needs to design and develop basic automation around manual processes and transform into useful structures - journal entries, analytical reports, extracts for data warehouses and dashboards. This position is also responsible for creating process documentation for all automation built and updating the software administrators regarding the requirements to support the new functionality.
**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
- Work alongside the Financial Technology Manager to learn customer business processes and gain an understanding of all data sources to quickly assess feasibility of proposed automation
- Work with the Financial Technology Manager to identify the technical requirements to design and develop automation requests
- Build automation for approved project proposals following established internal departmental controls and best practices for project implementation.
- Complete parallel testing of new automation in the development environment before the team administrators move them into production
- Train an accountant (if a reconciliation is involved) or an administrator (for fully automated processes) to assume responsibility for completed automation after the quality assurance review has been completed
- Create detailed process documentation for all automation (with images) of all data sources used and the functionality of the job processes
- Create service level agreements (SLAs) for business customers outlining the Business Process Automation (BPA) team's responsibilities versus the business owner's responsibilities with mínimal supervision
- Maintain exception reporting for automation created on behalf of the end users and their senior management
- Analyze trends in performance of completed projects and discuss with the Financial Technical Manager process improvement ideas to create efficiencies via modifications to file definitions and/or file mappings
- Create tracking tickets (as needed) for assistance with projects in the development environment
- Assist the team administrators with understanding maintenance tickets from accountants and auxiliary developers from other Finance teams
**REQUIREMENTS**:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Computer Science or equivalent
- Minimum 3 years' experience in designing and implementing automation or equivalent
- Project Management experience
- Experience with ERP systems (PeopleSoft)
- Experience working on business transformation initiatives
- Basic knowledge of SQL
- Bilingual in Spanish & English (verbal & written)
- Preferred:
- Experience with Trintech products: ReconNET and Certification
- Experience writing process design documentation
- Experience with Rocket Shuttle