Business Analyst - Blackline at NOV in Kochi

Job description

Success Measures • Successful delivery of BlackLine implementations and enhancements on schedule and with minimal business disruption. • Reduced manual effort, exception volumes, and recurring integration or production issues. • Strong data quality, audit readiness, security compliance, and stakeholder satisfaction. • Serve as a point of contact for assigned BlackLine modules, which could include Account Reconciliations, Transaction Matching, Task Management, Journal Entry, Intercompany, Variance Analysis, or other relevant modules. • Support BlackLine implementations and enhancements as needed. • Lead functional workshops, product demonstrations, assessments, and requirements sessions with Finance and business stakeholders. • Document current-state processes, business requirements, future-state process flows, functional specifications, business rules, approval hierarchies, and control requirements. • Configure BlackLine workflows, roles, security, templates, matching rules, reconciliation formats, task structures, and related functional components. • Architect functional solutions for BlackLine and its integration with Oracle Cloud Fusion, Oracle EBS R12, JD Edwards, and other ERP or Finance applications. • Partner with technical teams on API and file-based integrations, middleware, master data, chart of accounts, currencies, data feeds, and integration error resolution. • Support data conversion and migration activities, including mapping, cleansing, validation, reconciliation of legacy data, and cutover readiness. • Plan and conduct unit testing, system and integration testing • Participate as a functional lead on cross-functional Finance transformation projects and provide onsite or remote customer support as required. • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience. • At least 5–7 years of hands-on BlackLine implementation and support experience. • Completion of at least three full lifecycle BlackLine implementations as a Functional Solution Architect, Functional Lead, or equivalent role. • Demonstrated experience configuring BlackLine for Intercompany and other relevant financial-close processes. • Strong business-process analysis and redesign skills, including process mapping, requirements analysis, future-state design, and implementation. • Experience with BlackLine administration, including security roles, workflows, configurations, approval hierarchies, templates, and business rules. • Experience with BlackLine integrations to Oracle Cloud Fusion, Oracle EBS R12, JD Edwards, or comparable ERP platforms. • Experience with data conversion, migration validation, reconciliation, and cutover planning. • Working knowledge of SOX controls and audit support and controlled change management. • Excellent verbal communication, facilitation, and written documentation skills. Preferred Qualifications • 8 or more years of relevant BlackLine or Finance systems experience. • BlackLine certification or equivalent product training. • Manufacturing or industrial industry experience. • Experience supporting global implementations across multiple regions, currencies, time zones, and local accounting practices. • Experience with middleware, APIs, enterprise data architecture, and integration monitoring tools.