Functional Analyst, Finance Technology

This is a hybrid position requiring an on-site presence 3 to 4 days per week. Please note that the number of days on-site can increase based on business needs

Job Summary

Collaborate with Senior Functional Analyst, Product Owner, Business Partners, Product Team, Engineering, and Cross Functional Teams (Finance, Accounting, FP&A, External Reporting, Tax), to design, optimize, and scale finance systems and solutions. Serve as a partner to business teams in translating business needs into platform capabilities and ensure finance systems are maintained to meet business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for collaborating with the team to understand and propose solutions to configure package software or custom software development
• Drive AI-Driven Financial Insights, Automation & Digital Finance Transformation
• Partner with Data/AI teams to leverage predictive analytics, machine learning, and generative AI for forecasting, demand modeling, and variance analysis.
• Use AI/ML to detect anomalies, optimize cost drivers, identify business risks, and improve forecast accuracy.
• Support the design of AIpowered dashboards, copilots, and decisionsupport tools for Finance.
• Lead automation initiatives across FP&A, accounting, and reporting
• Automate data refresh, financial consolidations, variance explanations, and recurring reporting tasks.
• Implement intelligent document processing (IDP) for invoice extraction, financial statement ingestion, and reconciliations.
• Improve process efficiency through workflow automation and standardization of finance processes.
• Provides functional design support for finance technology solutions across transactional accounting, finance, tax, FP&A, and reporting.
• Convert business requirements into product configuration requirements, maintain functional and technical documentation, including user stories, and other Agile artifacts.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure solutions are scalable and compliant with Sysco’s standards and policies.
• Ensures design and development standards are being followed to minimize rework; promotes only quality-tested code and does it frequently
• Provides subject matter expertise support for issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and ensure continues optimization and automation with AI/ML solutions.
• Reviews required documentation to communicate information to deployment, maintenance, service, and business teams
  
  

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, computer science, or equivalent for the specific role’s responsibilities
  
  

Mandatory Experience

• 3-5 years of experience in finance, financial systems technology supporting finance functions.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise finance systems (Workday, Microsoft BI, SAP BPC, Microsoft D365)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand processes around consolidations, planning, finance analytics, and external and internal reporting.
• Proven ability to write clear functional requirements and collaborate with engineering teams
• Strong understanding of data modeling and integration across finance platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement are required across global teams.
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, and analysis skills.
• Hands-on experience with automation or analytics tools in finance and accounting processes.
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts (predictive analytics, LLM-based copilots, NLP, anomaly detection).
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP systems (SAP, Workday, Oracle, etc.).
• Background in RPA for finance, intelligent document processing, or automated reconciliations.
• Experience leading digital transformation or finance modernization initiatives.
  
  

Skills And Competencies

• Strong understanding of Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban & other agile frameworks
• Demonstrated “agile-development” mindset with strong customer-focus & results-orientation
• Knowledge of automation tools, AI-enabled finance solutions.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced agile environment, adapt to shifting urgencies, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines