Lead Business Analyst

Work Location: Kochi/Trivandrum

Skills – Mandatory

Accounting / Finance module business analysis and product ownership - Chart of Accounts, journals, sub-ledger to General Ledger posting, payables, receivables, reconciliation, fiscal period close.

Familiarity with procurement, inventory, sales and service transactions post into accounting. Requirements Analysis, Detailing & Solutioning. Requirement Documentation - FRD, user stories and acceptance criteria. Good communication.

• Own the accounting requirement area of the product, working with the Product Manager and the client Product Owner.
• Run requirement discovery workshops with the client team and convert the outcome into process flows and requirement documents.
• Elicit and finalise accounting requirements and publish them as FRDs, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Define and maintain the accounting integration design for every upstream and downstream module - Procurement, Inventory, Sales and Order-to-Cash, Service, Warranty and Master Data.
• Maintain the accounting dependency and impact document as a managed, current artifact, and keep the applicable extract inside each FRD and user story.
• Carry out impact analysis whenever a change is raised in accounting or in a connected
• module, and communicate the outcome to the product, architecture, engineering, QA and client teams.
• Work with the architecture team on data model, integration and reporting decisions that affect accounting.
• Review FRDs and user stories of other modules for accounting impact before they go into development.
• Groom the backlog with the development and QA teams and take functional decisions during sprints.
• Plan, allocate and review the work of the BAs / product analysts supporting the accounting area, and build their depth in the domain.
• Drive resolution of cross-module accounting issues found in testing and UAT - trace the issue back to the transaction, the posting rule or the master data.
• Plan and run UAT with business and finance users. Support go-live, migration of opening balances and open items, and the first period close on the new system.
• Track progress, risks and dependencies for the accounting scope and escalate early.
• Build and maintain the accounting glossary and domain knowledge base for the team.