Business Analyst - Accounting & Finance (contract)

Title: Business Analyst - Accounting & Finance Location: Charlotte, NC Duration: 6 months Work Engagement: W2 Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits Summary: In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Business Execution. Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Business Execution business solutions. Strategically engage with client personnel. Overview: The focus is on accounting and gathering accounting requirements that are inputs to build the Corporate Accounting Engine. The right candidate has experience in accounting and deep involvement from a business perspective in the life cycle of an accounting application implementation. Wells Fargo is seeking a Corporate Accounting Engine Transformation Lead to support transformation initiatives for the Corporate Accounting Engine platform. The role focuses on documenting high quality accounting requirements and partnering with technology leads, Group controllers to re-build an efficient and scalable accounting engine system. The role leads various stakeholders through the planning, analysis, and implementation phases of each initiative. In this role, you will: • Lead deep dive work sessions with accounting domain partners and document high quality accounting requirements • Build test strategies and plans. Write and execute test scripts. • Communicate practices and procedures for proper financial control functions in accordance with the company's internal controls policies • Provide work guidance or mentorship to peers or junior members of the team • Apply extensive specialized knowledge and act as an internal consultant • Provide strategic consultation to leadership • Lead implementation of the most complex projects or initiatives impacting multiple lines of business or across the enterprise • Identify compliance and risk management requirements for supported area and works with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives • Act as a liaison between IT and finance/accounting (Group controllers) functions and partner with technology leads across the General Ledger ecosystem to align accounting requirements to build an efficient and scalable accounting engine system Required Qualifications: • Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. • 5+ years of Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Financial Reporting, Accounting Reporting or Risk Reporting experience • Experience leading complex projects or initiatives impacting multiple lines of business or across the enterprise • Strong written, analysis and oral communication skills, with ability to communicate with various levels within the organization • Experience building large scale financial banking system implementations with hands on involvement in requirements gathering, testing, training, deployment • Understanding of Agile methodologies • Accounting System Implementation experience Desired Qualifications: Knowledge of SQL • Experience with computer-based accounting systems • Experience gathering accounting requirements used to build accounting systems • Strong understanding of “generally accepted accounting principles” • Good understanding of multi-currency enabled General ledger Eco systems • Experience using big data/Cloud/query data tools. • Ability to build business relationships with multiple stakeholder groups in accounting and technology