Business Systems Analyst - Corporate Systems

About the role:

Samsara Technologies India Private Limited is looking for a Business Systems Analyst.

The Business Systems team makes systems/processes more efficient, reduces manual, low-value work, and enables the company to run better, make better choices, and ultimately be more profitable. Our company is unique in that we are a truly hybrid hardware and SaaS business. This creates new challenges in both order-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes. We are seeking a creative, intellectually curious individual to collaborate and solve for these complex needs.

As a Business Systems Analyst, you will be a shared owner of the vision for Samsara’s Finance and systems. You will be responsible for becoming a go-to SME for our business partners, initiating and delivering on large and complex projects, and partnership with other BSAs. We are a high-performing team where everyone pitches in. You will roll your sleeves up and help with support particularly during month/quarter end also spending time on internal testing to ensure release quality.

We are seeking a skilled Business Systems Analyst with a balanced expertise of financial systems (UiPath, Workato, Orby AI, NetSuite, Salesforce, Concur, Expensify, Avalara, Vertex, Zip). You will be responsible for becoming a go-to SME for our business partners, initiating and delivering on large and complex projects, and partnership with other BSAs. We are a high-performing team where everyone pitches in. You will roll your sleeves up and help with support particularly during month/quarter end also spending time on internal testing to ensure release quality.This role will collaborate with developers, engineers, and other BSAs within Samsara on strategic projects.

This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days per week in our Bangalore office and 2 days working remotely. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role. This position requires working hours in IST time zone.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best. 

In this role, you will: 

• Identify and collaborate effectively with key ICs and leaders across Finance, IT, Sales, Supply Chain, Operations, FPA, and more to solve key business challenges through implementing best practice solutions which can include process change, configuration, automations and/or customization.
• Perform complex business and systems analysis work to provide forward-thinking, long-term technical solutions. Understands business processes and solutions agnostic of specific systems and can document and articulate outcomes to both IT and business users as needed.
• Participate in cross-functional requirement sessions to elicit, document, and define business requirements to identify functional scope for enterprise-size projects.  Able to identify unspoken/ conflicting requirements and drive meaningful change even going against the grain (as needed).
• Drive design and system configuration within UiPath, Workato, Orby AI, NetSuite, Salesforce, Concur, Expensify, Avalara, Vertex, Zip and other key financial systems.
• Prepare and review documentation for current processes, pain points, and assumptions for finance systems and continuously identify opportunities that will streamline workflows and processes within accounting.
• Draw from your experience to recommend changes in development, maintenance, and system standards that improves the team and our users’ experience while delivering long-term scalability.
• Assist in the ongoing Automation projects, administration of NetSuite and other finance systems as part of a team effort.
• Maintain our critical business systems: coordinate system upgrade activity, respond to issues and incidents, and provide day-to-day administration of the critical business systems that drive our global finance operations.
• Support for key month/quarter-end close processes (on call).
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Bachelor's degree or comparable work experience 
• 3+ years of relevant experience with the finance systems
• Experience with designing and supporting financial systems (UiPath, Workato, Orby AI, NetSuite, Salesforce, Concur, Expensify, Avalara, Vertex, Zip).
• Experience leading multiple Finance Systems projects & automations.
• Understanding of key financial business processes (Emphasis on Procure-to-Pay,  Order-to-Cash, and Record-to-Report, automations in finance systems, additional modules are a plus!)

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience working with multiple implementations or enhancements within Financial systems UiPath, Workato, Orby AI, NetSuite, Salesforce, Concur, Expensify, Avalara, Vertex, Zip.
• Experience working with systems that handle sensitive data and with SOX controls and change management processes
• Work ethic: You do what it takes to make a project go well. You are equally comfortable taking personal ownership of a task as delegating it.
• Prior knowledge and experience working in sprints and following Agile methodology
• Able to handle ambiguity and work effectively in a fast-paced and fluid environment for a mid to enterprise-sized organization

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