Join a finance systems team where you’ll help onboard forecasting models into a financial planning platform and improve how users interact with forecasting adjustments and reporting. This role offers the opportunity to bridge Finance stakeholders and engineering teams, turning business needs into clear technical requirements, reliable solutions, and well-tested enhancements.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document finance reporting and forecasting requirements from stakeholders, then translate them into technical specifications for implementation.
• Define data needs and source-data expectations for each model, identifying gaps and recommending practical solutions within platform constraints.
• Collaborate on workflow and interface ideas that simplify how users make forecast adjustments and view resulting reporting.
• Partner with engineering teams to plan, build, test, and release updates to the financial planning environment.
• Create and manage user acceptance testing plans to confirm outputs are accurate and aligned with business expectations before release.
• Document business rules, calculation logic, and data lineage for newly onboarded forecasting dimensions.
• Help identify and resolve validation gaps by working across finance, data science, and data engineering teams.
• Trace reporting issues back to their source and support root-cause analysis across pipelines and planning cubes.
• Own the engineering ticket queue by intake, prioritization, tracking, and closure in partnership with Finance stakeholders.

Skills

• 4 to 6 years of experience as a Business Analyst or Systems Analyst in finance systems or enterprise planning tools.
• Strong ability to translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications for engineering teams.
• Experience improving business processes and designing better workflows, including wireframing or UI/UX proposals.
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data modeling, and scenario analysis.
• Working knowledge of SQL for data validation and lineage tracing.
• Experience planning and executing user acceptance testing.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work across technical and business teams.
• Familiarity with financial forecasting concepts, including actuals vs. plan variance and dimensional modeling.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with TM1, Planning Analytics, or Apliqo.
• Familiarity with ETL pipelines and data warehouse concepts.
• Knowledge of subscription-based or media-related business models.
• Experience working with reporting and forecasting systems in complex financial environments.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail and quality.

Horizontal is committed to building an inclusive workplace where different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences are valued. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and are dedicated to fostering a culture of equity, respect, and belonging.

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