IT Finance Business Analyst

Are you an experienced IT finance business analyst who enables valuable outcomes and leverages data-driven insights to advance business processes and strategic outcomes?  At AdvanSix, Digital Transformation is a foundational enabler.  We implement robust applications, enabling efficient business processes and meaningful insights that help employees do their best work. Join a growing, contemporary IT team in this key role with opportunity to grow and to impact the organization. You will play a pivotal role in understanding and bridging gaps between finance objectives and technology solutions. You will analyze and solve problems to help meet financial and organizational objectives, gaining a deep understanding of our strategy and recommending and enabling technology programs that expediate and drive outsized outcomes.  At AdvanSix, we are our customers’ trusted partner for Advantaged Chemistries by caring, innovating, and advancing together.  We value diversity and promote inclusivity.  Join the AdvanSix team today and advance with us!   

What you will be doing: 

• Develop deep understanding of financial processes and strategy based in sound business fundamentals, economic thinking, benchmarking, and understanding of technological trends.   

• Enable outsized organizational outcomes by identifying technology programs and strategies that allow the organization to execute more quickly and agilely and to drive greater results.  Analyze complex problems and recommend meaningful solutions, defining the implementation path.  Identify, manage, and mitigate risk effectively.  Invests time in planning, discovery, and reflection to drive better decisions and outcomes.  Highlight improvement opportunities, challenging status quo, and driving appropriate change. 

• Build strong relationships with functional leaders and teams, creating a culture of collaboration, building consensus through impact and influence.  Define outcome-based business process transformation; explore and implement opportunities for process automation.   

• Elicit stakeholder needs and document clear, well-structured requirements including functional specifications, practitioner stories, and process flows.  Partner across IT and third parties when required to articulate solution requirements, ensuring stakeholder alignment. 

• Drive data driven decision-making to enhance ‘fit for purpose’ business processes.  Assist financial managers and team members in making decisions based on data insights, enabling the organization to improve digital acumen. Utilize data and develop business insights to support decision making.   

• Champion change management.  Identify need for and understand process change required to adopt innovative technology.  Effectively communicate benefits and enables adoption of new process / system drive.  Motivates and supports affected individuals to embrace change.   

• Be a champion for standardization and simplification: Drive standardization by leveraging out of the box system and explore ways to simplify, automate, or eliminate existing processes. 

What you will bring to the table: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field with 5+years relevant experience (or 8+ years relevant experience in IT business analysis without bachelor’s degree); Experience must include work as a business analyst with finance and preferably includes experience in a financial role. 

• Strong knowledge of business applications including SAP, preferably S/4HANA, financial forecasting tools, and automation technology. 

• Has led the adoption of new processes or systems 5+ times. 

What will enable your success:  

• Build deep relationships with individuals at various levels of the organization. 

• Creates a culture of collaboration within and across teams; asks thoughtful questions to identify shared interests, experiences, or other common ground. 

• Strong analytical, presentation, and interpersonal skills including active listening. 

• Robust diplomatic skills and ability to help team members see value, opportunities, and risks beyond their own area of expertise, strong business acumen. 

• Ability to combine knowledge and ideas from diverse sources to create innovative ideas as well as to see the potential impacts of decisions. 

• Ability to enable business, culture, and technology change in a dynamic operating environment; adjusts thinking and behavior resiliently and uses experience to fuel growth. 

• Dynamic, curious learner with desire to understand new perspectives and opportunities, to explore new ways to solve problems. 

• Ability to drive accountability within the team and with peers and stakeholders. 

• Knowledge of trends and contemporary technology advancements. 

• Optimistic outlook. 

• Attentive to detail but able to see the big picture. 

• Travel is required(10%).