Business Analyst

Overview

Let's Grow Together! We are a fast-moving Fortune 200 publicly-traded company with more than 12,500 stores and 13 distribution centers in 43 states, growing by hundreds of stores each year. We work in an energetic atmosphere that embraces innovation and teamwork. At Dollar General, you can see a clear and fast path to career growth and success. We are committed to attracting talented and motivated people who can advance our mission of "Serving Others."

Responsibilities

General Summary:

The individual will contribute to the success of both strategic and tactical initiatives of the finance department by leveraging technology, innovation, and creativity for continued quality and process improvement.  Individual must have a high degree of self-motivation with the ability to self-direct, track, measure and document within a professional environment while balancing multiple priorities with limited supervision. General responsibilities include business analysis, process improvement, reporting, and application administration.

Duties and Responsibilities:

§ Analyze business and operational processes across the finance department to identify opportunities and make recommendations, facilitating solution definition and documentation, successfully integrating business processes, roles, and technology to ensure business objectives are met

§ Develop, implement, and support reporting needs for a variety of financial applications and processes. This will be accomplished by gaining an understanding of the underlying processes, systems and data models and by utilizing multiple reporting methods and tools.

§ Perform daily responsibilities for general ledger processing including running batch jobs and system balancing. Also includes month-end processing.

§ Support/maintain application level setup and security administration for on premise and SaaS applications, including addition/deletion of system components and users, logging cases with internal or external vendor helpdesk, etc.

§ Support end users in troubleshooting problems, performance issues, etc.

§ Special projects as needed, including but not limited to system upgrades, testing and implementation of new systems or components, and creating or updating documentation of processes. § Cross-train and learn responsibilities of other team members for backup purposes

Qualifications

§ Proven ability to learn new systems and skills § Ability to understand, evaluate, interpret, assess, and translate business user’s needs into actionable solutions

§ Ability to clarify, define, and document information and processes that can sometimes be challenging and/or complex

§ Excellent listening and communication skills to foster strong working relationships

§ Ability to assist and teach others in the basic concepts and skills of business analysis and reporting

§ Must have intermediate-to-advanced PC and MS Office skills (PowerPivot, Power Query, and Power BI experience is a plus) § Experience with SharePoint site content administration is a plus

§ Experience writing reports from ERP or relational database § Light-to-medium coding ability is required on occasion; experience with VBA and SQL is preferred, but must also have the ability to learn new coding languages for light development § Strong people skills are needed to influence and negotiate with internal customers § Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills § Self-motivated and resourceful § Lawson experience a plus, but not required Work Experience and/or Education: A bachelor’s degree in a business or IT field of study is preferred, but may consider applicants with appropriate work experience without degree. 4-5 years of work experience in an IT role supporting users or ERP systems, or a business systems /analyst role with emphasis on systems/applications.