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Local long time industry seeking Accountant.  Duties will include cash flow, insurance comparisons, working with foreign cash and intercompany costins as wll as basic accounting.  Knowledge of Crystal reports or JD Edwards a plus.  Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm.  Benefits include 2 weeks paid vacation, 9 paid holidays, medical, dental, and life insurance, $40K per year.



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7 Brookside Plaza
Paragould, AR 72450

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Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., one of the world’s largest insurance brokerage and risk management services firms, provides a full range of retail and wholesale property/casualty (P/C) brokerage and alternative risk transfer services globally, as well as employee benefit brokerage, consulting and actuarial services. Gallagher also offers claims and information management, risk control consulting and appraisal services to clients around the world. If you’re looking for a professional career with an industry leader then you have come to the right place.  Wherever your interests lie, we’re sure you will agree on one thing: our continued prosperity hinges on our greatest resource — our people.

AJG Corporate Systems (CS) provides global financial applications development and support for AJG’s Finance and Accounting departments, including compliance for legal and audit.  AJG CS also includes an enterprise level Business Intelligence (BI) Competency Center (BICC) to provide expertise for management analysis, reporting and planning technologies and solutions.  AJG CS core solutions are comprised of Oracle/JD Edwards ERP/Finance, Cognos and Sharepoint applications in addition to number of integrated third party and internal package solutions. 

Position Summary
 

The Senior Business Analyst – Cognos is responsible for working with various business departments to understand business issues and data challenges specific to the corporate organization. This role will articulate these challenges and make certain that IT delivers solutions that resolve these concerns. In addition, this position will work closely with other IT groups and AJG businesses establishing Business Intelligence initiatives that are designed and implemented to support overall business and IT goals.
 
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Directs, prepares, designs, codes, tests, debugs, and maintains complex computer programs
• Under general direction, formulates and defines system scope and objectives
• Works with users to support business applications, and investigate operational problems/system requirements
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results
• Prepares detailed specifications from which programs will be written
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents those programs
• May be responsible for completion of a phase of a project
• Solves user inquiries that arise during day-to-day operation
• Regularly provides coaching, guidance and training to less-experienced analysts/programmers

Additional Job Duties/Considerations:

• Prioritize BI needs based on assessments with the business
• Assist in the development of Reporting and Analytics roadmaps
• Document, review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to a proposed solution. 
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements and communicate needed changes to development teams 
• Assist with the development of functional specifications and system design specifications for business areas 
• Lead BI projects following the established PMO process 
• Perform testing to validate accuracy and validity of reports and data integrity – use manual SQL to validate to Data Warehouse and other data sources as needed
• Develop test scripts and plans and lead testing efforts
• Design and develop data warehousing applications using SQL, Cognos BI tools
• Develop and support BI reporting packages and ad hoc analysis;
• Design, author and support BI reports using Cognos 8.X Report and Query Studios
• Assist Cognos Architect team with Data Warehouse structure, ETL, Framework Model and reporting portal changes to support user report and analysis requirements
• Ensure scheduled reports run within user expectations (performance, timing)
• Initiate dialog with business areas to develop an understanding of their reporting needs and gaps
• Quickly frame the business issues and data challenges for business areas 
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in reporting design plans and suggest areas of improvement 
• Ensure issues are identified and resolved in a timely manner
• Assist support team with day-to-day trouble tickets that tier 2 is unable to resolve
• Assist the business in identifying required changes to existing reports and analytics 
• Coordinate efforts of local/offshore Cognos development, testing and support resources
• Ensure key Service Level Agreements (SLA) are met
• Provide user training in BI reporting tools and reports as needed

 

Category:  Finance & Accounting