Sr. Systems Analyst - Accounting Operations (remote)

Nordstrom Nordstrom · Retail · United States

This role is for a Senior Systems Analyst focused on accounting operations within Nordstrom, specifically supporting Oracle Cloud ERP. The primary responsibilities include performing systems analysis, resolving operational issues, analyzing integrations, ensuring financial integrity, and embedding financial controls. The role requires extensive experience in finance systems and a strong understanding of accounting operations and close processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform systems analysis supporting Oracle Cloud ERP Financials, providing functional expertise and recommending solution designs aligned to accounting policy and operational needs.
  2. Analyze integrations and upstream/downstream dependencies, documenting current-state processes, identifying gaps, and delivering scalable improvements.
  3. Serve as a hands-on subject-matter expert for Oracle Cloud ERP Financials, performing analysis and validation to ensure end-to-end financial integrity.
  4. Contribute to production support operating models by authoring SOPs, job aids, and playbooks, supporting SLAs, and maintaining effective stakeholder communications.
  5. Embed strong financial controls through reconciliation design, exception handling, monitoring, SOX compliance, audit readiness, and preventative root-cause analysis.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in business analysis, business administration, finance or related field or equivalent work experience
  • 10+ years of business analysis experience in Finance/Accounting operations or Finance Systems
  • Great analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
  • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
  • A proven independent thinking self-starter with the ability to thrive in a close-knit, fast paced team environment built on collaboration and accountability
  • Hands-on experience supporting Oracle Cloud ERP/Financials or similar Financial systems implementation, optimization, or production support
  • Strong understanding of accounting operations and close processes; ability to translate accounting needs into system requirements

What the JD emphasized

  • Oracle Cloud ERP/Financials