Finance Systems Integrations Analyst

WHO WE ARE:
Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers—the Comfort Technology Company®—has spent over 30 years helping men, women, and kids everywhere look and feel good. Comfort innovation is at the core of everything we do, driving the development of stylish, high-quality products at a great value. From our diverse footwear collections to our expanding range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
As a techno-functional member of the SKECHERS USA, Inc. Information Technology team, this role will contribute to the management and ongoing support and implementation of applications within the SKECHERS finance systems portfolio.
This role will primarily support integrations and automations within the finance systems ecosystem while being a part of a team who serve as a project lead, partnering with the business, and other areas within IT, to be the go-to integration support for the Finance and Accounting global end-user community. This role will work with stakeholders, analyze system problems, application data and business processes, create integration solutions, perform testing, identify ways to make processes more efficient and offer continuous improvement recommendations that meets business objectives and user needs.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for integrations used across all finance applications
• Plan, evaluate, and oversee the integration of systems to ensure that legacy and future finance applications work together efficiently
• Responsible for creating and maintaining functional specifications, integration design documents, business process workflows, data flow diagrams and related documentation for new development projects and enhancements to be used by IT
• Participate in efforts to reengineer and optimize business processes using integration solutions to gain efficiencies and reduce manual effort of stakeholders
• Cross-functional collaboration and communication to quickly understand, troubleshoot, find root cause, and resolve issues
• Support the Software Engineering team during the development process via research, requirements gathering, managing tickets, and testing to ensure code performs as designed and meets integration requirements
• Execute functional, integration, and regression test plans for new application functionality, product releases and enhancement, and regulatory modifications using business scenarios
• Responsible for mapping data from source system to target system
• Actively participate in data conversion and data cleansing efforts
• Interacts directly with application teams, subject matter experts, and third-party application experts determine the business needs for interfaces/integration needs, input and output requirements and evaluate processes and procedures
• Partner with key business stakeholders and multi-departments to build a continuous improvement environment to support an ongoing program of transformation
• Ensure consistency and best practice to the integration approach, enabling the acquired target to be successfully integrated and measured, ensuring all learnings are captured and utilized to enhance the process
• Support for internal teams with usage guides, training, troubleshooting and other technical assistance

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Working knowledge of Integration tools is a must.  Experience with Boomi, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and/or Alteryx is extremely helpful
• Knowledge of software support life cycle and testing practices
• Advanced analytical capability
• Highly motivated individual with desire to influence change on a large scale
• Takes personal responsibility to improve processes and systems
• Ability to conceptualize, formulate, and succinctly convey complex solutions to a wide audience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent documentation skills using Microsoft Office, Visio/LucidChart, Smartsheet, Confluence
• Demonstrated innovation and creativity, considers different approaches to issue resolution
• Excellent relationship building skills, able to build trust with stakeholders
• Demonstrated track record of process improvement and desire to implement best practices
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines
• Positive, proactive, and self-motivated
• Must have high degree of accuracy, results-oriented, highly accountable
• Adaptable, flexible in a changing environment, comfortable with ambiguity
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
• Works well in a fast-paced environment with tight timelines for deliverables

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Database Administration, or equivalent professional experience
• 8 years of hands-on progressive integration analyst experience working with flat-file integrations as well as APIs (REST & SOAP)
• Knowledge of any RDMS SQL queries and any NoSQL database data fetch.
• Knowledge of JSON and XML protocol and Extract Transform Load (ETL) for data mapping
• Knowledge of any common Cloud based service like AWS, Azure and/or GCP from Integrations perspective
• Knowledge and Expertise in any programming language like Python, Java, Javascript, Groovy, C++, etc
• Experience integrating with Oracle Fusion Cloud is a must.
• Working knowledge of the integration process between core finance systems modules and boundary applications.
• Proven ability to understand data flows and data relationships to troubleshoot integration issues, create meaningful reports and queries, and provide solution suggestions to management
• Experience supporting full Agile and Waterfall software development lifecycles (SDLC) including understanding business processes, gathering user requirements, design, testing, deployment, and training
• Proven ability to communicate, motivate and organize integration projects
• Experience using systems designed to manage issues, changes, and testing (ServiceNow, Jira)
• Problem solving ability with a strong technical aptitude to perform root cause analysis

The pay range for this position is $120,000 -$160,000/yr USD.

About Skechers

Skechers, a global Fortune 500® brand develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Developing comfort technologies is the foundation of all we do – delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,200 company-and third-party-owned retail locations. Headquartered in Southern California, with offices and distribution centers around the globe, Skechers has spent over 30 years helping people of all ages look and feel good.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Skechers is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.

Reasonable Accommodation
Applicants for employment who require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job should request appropriate accommodation by emailing [email protected].
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily.  The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.