Business Analyst - Blackline

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.