Global Financial Accounting – Business Analyst 100%

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Zürich, CHE
In-Office
Mid level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
Manage strategic projects in an international SAP S/4HANA environment, focusing on financial systems integration and improvement. Communicate project statuses, support business analysis, and represent financial accounting collaboratively within the bank.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to spearhead the design, customization, and optimization of our core financial accounting processes. You will translate complex business requirements into scalable, compliant SAP solutions and ensure seamless integration with controlling (CO) and other core modules (MM, SD, FICO, RE-FX, AP, AR, ECCS) as well as several subledger own-developments.
You will support global operations over 35 entities as well as work on global projects.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Role objectives:

  • Serve as the key interface between Finance Business, IT teams and other stakeholders

  • Analyse and document business requirements related to SAP Finance processes

  • Support the implementation and optimization of SAP solutions

  • Drive process improvements and standardization across Finance functions

  • Contribute to SAP S/4HANA transformation and related future initiatives

Responsibilities:

  • Gather, analyze and document business and functional requirements

  • Translate business needs into SAP finance solution designs and specifications

  • Conduct process and gap analyses and recommend improvements

  • Coordinate and support testing activities including defect resolution

  • Collaborate with business stakeholders, SAP consultants and project teams throughout project lifecycles

Competencies:

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities

  • Ability to bridge business requirements and technical solutions

  • Strong stakeholder management and proven communication skills with the ability to decompose complex solutions into compelling storylines

  • Strong understanding of key business processes related to accounting, data flows, interfaces and related configuration within SAP

  • Proactive, collaborative and result-oriented mindset

YOUR PROFILE
  • Education: Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Technology or related fields

  • Experience: Minimum 3 years of experience as a Business Analyst or SAP Finance Consultant. Experience in a banking environment is an advantage

  • Platform: Good knowledge of SAP R/3 or SAP S/4HANA Finance processes. SAP Finance certification is considered an advantage

  • Key Skills: Deep understanding of accounting principles, record-to-report (R2R) processes, and complex financial reporting

  • Soft Skills: Fluent in English and/or German (written and spoken), strong communication skills, high motivation and drive to get things done, hands-on mentality and entrepreneurial spirit, high flexibility

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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Information Technology
  • Several years' work experience as business analyst and project manager in international SAP S/4HANA projects
  • Strong SAP knowledge (SAP FI, GL, AP, AR, AA, MM, SD, MCA, Arriba, TRM, RE-FX, VIM)
  • Experience in financial accounting department of a bank
  • Fluent in German and English (written and spoken)
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The Company
HQ: Zürich
7,326 Employees
Year Founded: 1890

What We Do

The Julius Baer Group is present in over 60 locations worldwide, including Zurich (Head Office), Bangkok, Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Monaco, Mumbai, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo. Social media terms of use: https://www.juliusbaer.com/en/legal/social-media/

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