Financial Business Analyst

The Financial Business Analyst provides functional, analytical, and technical support for the college's financial operations and enterprise systems, with primary responsibility for the ctcLink/PeopleSoft Finance (FSCM) and Student Finance environments. The position serves as a key liaison among Finance, Budget Managers, Student Affairs, Financial Aid, Human Resources, Information Technology, and the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) to support effective financial processes, system functionality, data integrity, security, analysis and uninterrupted transaction flow.

This position combines financial and business-process analysis, systems support, reporting, security administration, data governance, and hands-on operational support. The Financial Business Analyst evaluates complex business and system issues, translates business requirements into effective system and process solutions, develops reporting and queries, supports reconciliations and audits, and works collaboratively across functional areas to improve financial operations. The position also participates in applicable college and statewide ctcLink governance activities to remain informed about changes to system functionality, financial processes, role design, security practices, audit expectations, data governance, and statewide support processes.

The position serves as a Local Security Administrator (LSA) and functional security resource for the ctcLink Finance pillar, helping ensure that access is appropriately authorized, configured, documented, reviewed, and maintained. This requires understanding employee job responsibilities, financial business processes, PeopleSoft security architecture, workflow and approval relationships, segregation of duties, least-privilege principles, institutional practices, and the operational consequences of security decisions.

ABOUT THE COLLEGE:

Green River College's student body is made up of approximately 41% Academic Transfer students, 34% Professional-Technical students, 15% Adult Basic Education student, and 3% Applied Bachelor degrees. Green River College has four campuses, including the main campus in Auburn, Washington, with satellite campuses in Kent, downtown Auburn, and Enumclaw. Green River programs serve high school graduates, Running Start students (dual enrollment in local high schools and the college), those seeking retraining for the workforce, international students, students learning English, and Continuing Education students. Green River's service areas are increasingly ethnically diverse, comprising African Americans, African immigrants, Asian Americans, Asians, Latinx, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Middle Eastern Americans, among other communities.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION:

We commit to be an anti-racist institution where all students, faculty, and staff receive the access, resources, and services needed to achieve their educational, career, and personal goals. Green River College makes social and economic justice, equity, and inclusion our highest priorities.

The Green River College definition of equity encompasses all identities, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, economic status, gender identity, sexual identity, disability, religion/spirituality, immigration status, age, and culture. We understand individual needs vary widely, and the effects of discrimination and historical oppression must be taken into account while aiming for equitable opportunities and outcomes for all.

Financial Systems and Business Analysis

• Support and maintain ctcLink/PeopleSoft Finance and Student Finance functionality, including troubleshooting system and transaction issues, testing updates, evaluating system changes, and implementing enhancements.
• Monitor and support financial transaction workflows, including approvals, routing, budget checking, and related processes, to promote timely processing and operational continuity.
• Analyze financial and administrative processes and recommend improvements that increase efficiency, strengthen controls, improve data quality, and reduce manual workarounds.
• Partner with Finance staff, department leaders, and other stakeholders to identify business requirements and translate them into effective system configurations, reporting solutions, procedures, or process improvements
• Diagnose issues that may involve multiple components, including security, business-process configuration, workflow, data, training, query access, user preferences, or system functionality, and determine an appropriate resolution or escalation path.
• Collaborate with business analysts and functional stakeholders across Human Resources, Student Affairs, Financial Aid, Finance, and Information Technology to address cross-pillar dependencies and promote effective, student-focused service delivery.
• Develop and maintain financial reports, PeopleSoft queries, dashboards, and other analytical tools to support management and operational decision-making.
• Support Finance staff with ongoing reconciliations, including reviewing transactions, researching and resolving discrepancies, and verifying accuracy between system records and supporting documentation
• Participate in SBCTC data governance activities and provide leadership for internal Finance and Student Finance data governance efforts.
• Plan and participate in user acceptance testing (UAT), system upgrades, patches, system-improvement initiatives, and implementations of new functionality.
• Develop and maintain business-process documentation, system procedures, security documentation, support materials, and internal-control documentation.
• Support internal and external audit activities by gathering documentation, researching system transactions and security configurations, and explaining relevant financial-system processes and controls
• Maintain knowledge of ctcLink/PeopleSoft functionality, statewide security practices, governance decisions, and system changes affecting college financial operations.

ctcLink Finance Security and Local Security Administration

• Serve as a Local Security Administrator and functional security resource for the Finance/FSCM pillar, administering locally managed ctcLink security in accordance with college and SBCTC requirements.
• Analyze requested access to identify appropriate roles, permission dependencies, User Preference Definitions, Process Groups, Requestor profiles, approval-related configuration, Business Unit limitations, query access, and other secondary security requirements.
• Evaluate security requests in the context of job responsibilities, existing access, segregation of duties, least-privilege principles, workflow requirements, and downstream operational impacts.
• Coordinate security changes requiring SBCTC action, other Local Security Administrators, or cross-pillar involvement.
• Communicate completed security changes and relevant impacts to employees, supervisors, functional owners, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain security requests, approvals, configuration records, supporting documentation, queries, procedures, and related institutional knowledge for operational and audit purposes.
• Review Finance security following personnel, supervisory, departmental, and organizational changes to identify access, workflow, approval, and configuration changes that may be required.
• Conduct or coordinate periodic FSCM security reviews and audits and assist in resolving identified security or access-control issues.
• Monitor relevant SBCTC security guidance, ctcLink governance activities, system changes, and security initiatives and incorporate changes into local procedures and practices when appropriate.
• Develop guidance, job aids, training materials, and communications that help employees understand system procedures, financial processes, security expectations, and related changes.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Three to five years of progressively responsible experience in financial analysis, accounting, enterprise financial systems support, business analysis, or a related area.
• Experience supporting financial operations in a complex, multi-fund, multi-department, or similarly complex organizational environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of financial business processes, including budgeting, financial transactions, reconciliations, reporting, and internal controls.
• Experience working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems; ctcLink/PeopleSoft experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience analyzing business requirements and translating them into systems, reporting, configuration, or process solutions.
• Advanced spreadsheet skills and experience analyzing large and complex datasets.
• Demonstrated analytical, research, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Ability to communicate technical and financial concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across organizational and functional boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting PeopleSoft FSCM and/or Student Financials.
• Experience administering or analyzing ERP security, user access, roles, permissions, or workflow.
• Experience with ctcLink Local Security Administration or PeopleSoft Security Administration.
• Experience creating and analyzing PeopleSoft queries and financial reports.
• Experience with user acceptance testing, ERP upgrades, system implementations, or system-improvement projects.
• Experience supporting security audits, financial audits, internal controls, or segregation-of-duties reviews.
• Experience working within Washington's community and technical college system or another complex public-sector or higher-education environment.
• Experience participating in data governance, ERP governance, or cross-functional systems governance
• Experience using Microsoft 365 tools, such as Excel, SharePoint, Lists, Planner, Power Automate, Teams, or Outlook, for process tracking, reporting, workflow improvement, documentation, or communications.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong analytical skills with a high level of attention to accuracy and detail.
• Strong knowledge of financial operations, business processes, data analysis, and internal controls.
• Ability to understand complex and interdependent ERP configurations and assess their impact on users and business operations.
• Ability to distinguish among security, system configuration, business-process, workflow, data, and training issues when troubleshooting problems.
• Ability to evaluate access using least-privilege and segregation-of-duties principles while maintaining effective business operations.
• Ability to analyze roles, security dependencies, workflow relationships, query access, and secondary system configurations.
• Strong customer-service orientation and ability to provide effective support to users with varying levels of technical expertise.
• Ability to translate complex technical or financial concepts into clear, actionable guidance.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships across financial, administrative, technical, and academic/student-service functions.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-volume, transaction-oriented environment.
• Ability to exercise sound independent judgment when evaluating complex system, financial, security, and business-process issues.

Required Training:

• Non-discrimination
• Ethics
• Child Abuse and Neglect
• Safety Orientation
• Title IX
• Procurement 101
  
•  FERPA

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Must be able to sit for long periods at a desk/computer workstation.
Frequent repetitive arm, hand, and finger motions.
Frequent use of computer and exposure to terminal screen in performing work assignments.
Work in an office setting with frequent interruptions.
Must be able to maintain “regular and predictable attendance”
May need to carry, lift or move equipment/supplies up to 25 lbs
Work schedule: Monday through Friday.

Attach the following with your completed online application and responses to the Supplemental Questions (located under the tab titled "Supplemental Questions") to be considered for this position.

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Green River College prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, including sex-based harassment, and sex discrimination in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations, including in admission and employment. Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to Green River College’s Title IX Coordinator, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, or both.
 
Reporting: Any employee, student, applicant, or visitor who believes that he, she or they have been the subject of discrimination or harassment should report the incident or incidents to the College’s appropriate Title IX Coordinator identified below. If the complaint is against that Coordinator, the complainant should report the matter to the President’s office for referral to an alternate designee.
 
For students/employees/public/visitors/applicants: Korland Simmons, Title IX Coordinator • Equity, Diversity, Inclusion