Functional Analyst

About The Company:

Clayton Homes, a Berkshire Hathaway company and the nation’s leading housing provider, is a vertically integrated housing company that builds, sells, and insures affordable housing. Our commitment to creating a World Class Customer Experience is unparalleled in the housing industry; we take pride in ensuring that all Clayton homeowners receive a high level of customer service from the time they visit one of our Home Centers all the way through to the time they take ownership of their new home.

High Level Position Description:

The Functional Analyst role serves as a technical expert in Oracle, driving enhancements, support, and delivery of new features for the Clayton Technology Team. This position demands a strong background and knowledge in the configuration and impacts of changing, adding, or removing configurations in Oracle EPM. The Functional Analyst will coordinate and interact with internal Tech development and shared services teams, vendors, portfolio teams, and architecture teams to ensure requirements are understood and capable of being implemented. This is a technical role requiring strong analytical skills and a willingness to conduct thorough what-if analysis and testing.

Responsibilities:

• As a Functional Analyst you will support, develop, and maintain our Oracle EPM platform to ensure capabilities are delivered through optimal system configurations, settings, and controls.

• Partner with Product Owner on product vision, requirements definition (functional and non-functional), and capability analysis to ensure the product features support the needed business requirements.

• Provide subject matter expertise while developing and maintaining functional system configurations, documentation, and processes.

• Provide data content, modeling and mapping expertise for Oracle.

• Perform research and evaluate all functions to develop efficient processes and ensure compliance to all standards.

• Complete both hands-on configuration of the platform as well as management of internal and potentially outsourced configuration resources.

• Engage in functional and technical discussions and communicate effectively with a variety of audiences, moving between providing functional/technical design details and sharing how a configuration, setting, or enhancement would enhance business processes, particularly from a user perspective.

• Work alongside Quality Assurance (QA) Specialists to maintain all documentation for change control management and prepare records for software development cycle and prepare solutions for all enhancements.

• Assist business stakeholders with testing of system changes and analyze data flows for process improvement opportunities.

• Skilled in data gathering and analysis with the objective of providing solution recommendations and validation from a data and information flow perspective.

• Level 2 and 3: Serve as a mentor to other team members.

Required Skills:

• Experience supporting, configuring, and implementing Oracle Enterprise Resource Management modules (EPM).

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse group of team members, including executives, managers, end users across a variety of business units, Technology professionals, and subject matter experts.

• Strong ability to work effectively within time constraints, changing priorities, and independently.

• Ability to provide reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques including the ability to find root cause and corrective action for given problems

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite: Including Intermediate in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

• Three or more years’ experience as a systems or functional analyst.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical and business experience.

Desired Skills:

• Background in performing analysis, administration, documentation, troubleshooting, testing, software and data environment refreshes preferred but not required.

• Intermediate to strong skillset with PL/SQL (Programming Language/Structured Query Language) or other programming languages

• Intermediate experience with Oracle EPM Modules: Profitability and Cost Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning and Budget, Account Reconciliation, Narrative and Freeform Reporting

Benefits:

• 401(K) includes 100% company match of the first 4%

• Medical and Dental Plan with Prescription Coverage and Vision

• Paid Time Off days and holidays

• Wellness Programs and On-site fitness facility

• On-site restaurant

• Team Share Quarterly Bonus