The Shaw Group provides premier engineering, design, construction, and maintenance services to government and private-sector clients in a wide array of industries, including the energy, environmental, infrastructure, and emergency response markets.



Senior Business Systems Analyst opportunity located in Baton Rouge, LA

The Shaw Group provides premier engineering, design, construction, and maintenance services to government and private-sector clients in a wide array of industries, including the energy, environmental, infrastructure, and emergency response markets. We are currently seeking the following Senior Business Systems Analyst in our Baton Rouge, LA office.

JOB DESCRIPTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Business Systems Analyst provides support, focusing on the Payroll/Time Entry ERP team’s projects and initiatives. This position helps to plan, establish, and implement the policies and procedures to support the organization’s business applications and technical infrastructure. This position requires knowledge of specific application software, communication with internal users of applications, and participation in the development and planning of processes to address and solve user’s business and system needs. This position will require an understanding of how the application software has been set-up and integrated to support business needs, infrastructure, reporting and training of end users. Good communication skills are a must as the candidate will be required to work closely with individuals of widely varying responsibility and experience. This position requires a complete understanding of data use, processes, output and the ability to conduct functional testing of applications.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

�Bachelor’s degree in a related area

�7-10 years of experience is required.

�Candidate must be familiar with a wide area of technical and business concepts.

�Candidate must be proficient with MS Office suite of products, SQL, and report writing.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

�JD Edwards experience is highly desirable.

�Knowledge of the payroll industry, project leadership and management skills are highly desired.

�MBA
 

 Description

This position reports to the Project Director, with a dotted line of responsibility to the Project Controls Director and the Division CFO in Virginia, for the financial affairs of a project located near Provo, Utah. 
Essential Functions
Financial/Accounting Responsibilities
‘ Maintains and updates the job budget and forecasting spreadsheets
‘ Maintains and monitors all cost accounts
‘ Prepare and approve job journal entries
‘ Approves JV and vendor invoices
‘ Monitors job cash flow
‘ Prepares and analyzes reports that summarize and forecast all facets of project activity and financial position. This may include: summary reports on project progress, job overhead reports, trial balance, balance sheet, financial statement, income statement, and profit distributions
‘ Participates in various government compliance reviews and assists in DCAA audits, if required
‘ Monitors compliance with joint venture agreement and government FAR contractual requirements
‘ Analyzes and communicates to management variances between projected results and actual results on a monthly basis
‘ Assists operations team at large in ad hoc reporting and review of estimates whenever required
‘ Ensures compliance with internal and governmental accounting policies, procedures and internal controls.

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