EBS Functional
A financial analyst is a professional undertaking financial analysis for external or internal clients as a core feature of the
- Interact with business customers to understand and document their business processes and requirements.
- Perform gap analysis to determine e-Business suite system configuration and development changes.
- Create business requirements documents, system configuration documents, detailed functional design documents, test plans and test cases, user training documents, and implementation documents.
- Work with the business and development team to design and implement system modifications.
- Work with business customers, developers, and Oracle Support to research, document, and resolve Oracle system issues.
- Create SQL queries against Oracle tables to troubleshoot, develop metrics, and create ad-hoc reporting as needed.
EBS Technical
Financial analysts are employed by mutual- and pension funds, hedge funds, securities firms, banks, investment banks,
- Act as a lead consultant in the technical track of the company’s Oracle EBS practice. Provide critical technical consulting support in client engagement’s pre-sales and solution design phases.
- Act as a key manager in developing project plans and estimates for the level of effort across multiple engagements.
- Lead complex development activities by providing architect-level technical services during an engagement’s construction and testing phases.
- Maintain knowledge of current technologies deployed by Oracle, including development tools, ETL tools, Business Process Engineering Language (BPEL), and SOA foundation pack.
- Work directly with EBS functional specialists or business users to thoroughly understand functional requirements to produce highly effective technical design documentation using best practice development standards.
- Design, configure, and code reports, UI, programs, extensions, and interfaces in Oracle as needed to support client business functions.
- Database Administrator
- Support database technologies and associated infrastructure to ensure the highest availability, resilience, integrity, security, and performance standards.
- Provide database support to development teams, application teams, and all other database users.
- Displays a high level of effort and commitment toward completing goals promptly, change approach as needed, and independently implements new ideas and starting projects on their own
- Possess the ability to mentor other Database Administrators.
- Other duties as assigned include but are not limited to possible reallocation of efforts to other organizations per business need and management request.
Other typical tasks may also include.
As mentioned, “quantitative analysts” are usually seen as distinct from “financial analysts.” Typically “quants” are
- Ability to work under pressure
- This job requires excellent analytical skills and attention to detail. Due to the dynamic nature of the business, self-motivation and the ability to learn quickly are essential.