Join our Team!  The Finance and Business Operations Division (FBOD) is seeking a systems savvy individual with exceptional organizational and communication skills to join our Treasury Operations Section. 
 
FBOD's mission is to provide timely, efficient, and accurate accounting, procurement, treasury, payroll, benefits and small business services. We are actively seeking employees whose behavior is in alignment with our division's core values of: Respect, Teamwork, Results and Innovation.
 
The Treasury Operations Section is one of 5 sections under FBOD. Treasury administers the main revenue streams of local government collecting more than $6 billion in property taxes and other fees, distributing those collections to more than 170 taxing entities. The section also manages a greater than $7 billion investment portfolio for 100 special purpose districts, including water, sewer, fire and school districts and administers more than $9 billion in outstanding debt obligations for those same districts.
 
Activities necessary to effectively perform this work are well documented. Treasury's property tax and fee business functions are supported by several internal and external applications.  Working either remotely or onsite, the incumbent will act as the primary liaison between end-users, information technology analysts, and vendors in functional analysis, testing and production support.  
   
This Functional Analyst position provides production and technical support for all issues related to property tax and fees. Successful candidates will have a passion for learning, problem solving, taking personal initiative, and ensure the highest quality customer support is delivered.
 
Scope of Job Duties: To be considered for this opportunity, you must at a minimum, demonstrate knowledge, skill or ability in the following areas:

• System Administration: Maintain and validate the accuracy and integrity of tax accounts in the Property Tax Billing System (PBS).  Coordinate and provide quality assurance for tax roll balancing, reporting and the annual tax certification process involving multiple County agencies. 
• Billing Cycle Support: facilitate and reconcile large wire payments; perform journal entries in Oracle; create and process payment files for payment submitters. 
• Reporting, Data Query and analysis: Ensure report jobs run timely; manage and validate monthly report distribution; manage requests from internal and external groups related to adhoc reports and data queries, monthly tax receivable reports, state reporting, etc.
• System Processing and Troubleshooting: Investigate, troubleshoot, document and resolve complex functional system problems on behalf of end users by communicating and engaging with our IT (KCIT) department and the Business Resources Center’s (BRC) technical support when necessary.  
• Liaison: Aid system users; be the liaison between users and technical support. Serve as a liaison between KCIT and BRC technical support and less technical business process owners. Effectively translate between technical and business language. 
• System Support: Provide system functional support and user support for business and financial systems; assist in bank account reconciliation processes as needed.
• Partner: Provide guidance and education to mortgage company service providers and mass payers of large entities; engage point of contacts during peak billing periods. 

• Are highly competent in Excel; Perform detailed and accurate data analysis.
• Are experienced as a business systems analyst for an automated financial system involving automated systems testing, transaction processing and troubleshooting applications. 
• Experience with organizational business practices and workflows
• Have strong skills in analytical thinking, problem solving and troubleshooting; 
• Are able to provide excellent customer service and establish effective working relationships; 
• Are able to manage multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines;  
• Are excellent communicators with the ability to speak and write clearly and succinctly; 
• Ability to work in a remote work environment 
• Ability to uphold our Division’s values 
• Experience documenting business processes, developing technical operational written procedures
• Have any combination of education and experience that clearly demonstrates the ability to perform the job duties of the position.
    

• Have experience working with mainframe systems, using Oracle EBS Cash Management or Accounts Receivable modules, or operating in a .Net environment. 
• Have knowledge and experience in financial analysis and accounting to facilitate financial reporting, integration with financial systems, auditing, and reconciliation of financial activity. 
• Have the technical ability to create simple SQL to support end users, familiar with MS Access, and understands relational databases.

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