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You are responsible for supporting programs focusing on critical initiatives for the Finance organization. You will need to be very detail oriented and passionate about going deep, as well as going wide. You must have the ability to connect the dots to ensure conflicting interests are addressed while complimentary opportunities are enhanced. Your solution must be comprehensive, scalable, and agile. You will be required to demonstrate the ability to perform data analysis in assigned projects while keeping in sight the overarching, larger business capability. 

You will be expected to support complex, cross functional programs aligning people, processes, and systems to achieve a successful outcome. You should be a creative, smart problem solver scaling steep learning curves quickly. Working on highly complex problems, you are asked to gain insight into the strategic issues which are forefront in the minds of the executive leadership team. 

You will need to demonstrate the ability to be successful in an unstructured, team-focused environment. 

You are required to possess finance, system implementation, process mapping, project management and communications skills, demonstrate the ability to influence and effectively manage key relationships and challenging situations in a fast-paced business organization.

You will drive and support programs with cross functional partners in the organization to gather requirements, provide advice of inter dependencies and impacts, facilitate process design and re-design, develop solutions, execute approved plans, and promote capability adoption. 

• Analyze data from various sources to compile a comprehensive picture of the overall business requirement documents, process mapping including flow charts, and process narratives.
• Design and conduct moderately complex analysis to identify and remediate data quality or integrity issues and to identify and remediate process or control gaps
• Support communications with basic documentation related to requirements, design decisions, issue closure, or remediation updates
• Work with business and technology partners or subject matter professionals to document or maintain business or technical metadata about systems, business or data elements, or data-related controls and data lineage.
• Maintains necessary processes, controls, and procedures to ensure data accuracy and integrity
• Performs complex analysis of master and reference datasets and conduct data validation.
• Develop and implement best practices across finance functions
• Support day to day operations and deliver on strategy and operational plans against the strategic vision for the company

• 3+ years of experience in accounting, finance, project management, business analysis, and business operations support.
• B.A. or B.S. in Business Administration, Finance or Information Technology with a focus on Business applications
• Prior experience with SQL queries and data transformation/analysis tools
• Prior experience with data mapping, process mapping, system flows, process narrative, business case documentation, and data integration is highly desirable
• Strong interpersonal and team building skills; ability to work with a diverse team and influence/inspire change across functional and business boundaries
• Continuous improvement mentality and ability to suggest and implement new and better ways to work
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills
• Self-starter with unquestionable integrity. 
• Be Great!

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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