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Yardi Business Analyst (Closed)

Date Posted: Apr 5, 2019

Job #1558300
Permanent
New York, New York, United States
Professional

About The Position

In this role, the individual will work closely with business areas in ensuring that firm’s ERP system, Yardi, meets company’s needs. He/she will interface and communicate with the business in managing projects, developing reports, resolving data/process issues. Yardi is a key system for the firm and this individual will be the “go-to” Yardi person.

  • Perform administrative/support functions in Yardi and help business departments in using Yardi effectively
  • Work with user groups in gathering, interpreting, analyzing and documenting business requirements
  • Develop project plans/timelines and work-break-down structures and communicate with the business in managing their needs/expectations
  • Develop design/functional specification documents for business requirements
  • Work with the application development and data engineering team in developing business solutions
  • Design, develop and test reports in Yardi and data visualization dashboards using BI tools
  • Communicate and coordinate with business users in gathering requirements and testing/supporting applications
  • Help address audit requests from firm’s internal and external auditors

Requirements

  • Excellent data analysis skills with expertise in handling large datasets and time series data
  • Excellent critical reasoning skills with ability to interpret and evaluate business requirements and user needs
  • Excellent Project Management skills and preferably Project Management Professional (PMP) certified
  • Appreciation for and experience with documentation of systems flows and architecture
  • Experience in writing SQLs to be able to extract and analyze business data independently
  • Experience in Yardi and SalesForce
  • Experience in developing business intelligence platform from enterprise data
  • Experience in interfacing with finance/accounting/tax teams
  • Familiarity with GAAP accounting
  • Experience with data visualization using Power BI or Tableau
  • Experience is developing project plans with critical success factors, KPIs, work-break-down structures, delivery and resource schedules
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with experience is developing project proposals, business requirement documents and technical/functional specification documents
  • Highly organized, good eye for detail and process and timeline orientated
  • Experience working on large scale systems and enterprise scale products
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
  • Strong knowledge of application testing
  • Strong ability to interact effectively with peers, work on own initiative and to adapt to a changing, fast paced, and dynamic work environment across multiple regions and time zones
  • Results oriented, high energy, self-motivated and proven experience supporting high pressure environment preferably in Investment/Trading