BAIN CAPITAL OVERVIEW
With approximately $185 billion of assets under management, Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private investment firms, creating lasting impact in our partnership with our investors, companies, and communities. Today we have over 1,880 employees in 24 offices on four continents.
We partner differently to help people and companies embrace possibility and realize potential.
Founded as a private partnership in 1984, we have fostered a culture of innovation, entrepreneurialism, and agility, empowering our people to define and own their career trajectories. Today, our partnership approach allows us to pursue strategic platform growth and creates a shared commitment to cross-platform collaboration. Our enduring relationships with leading experts and executives extend outside our firm to include partners, counterparties, and community organizations. By connecting deep and diverse expertise across our global networks, we unlock breakthrough insight and unseen opportunity.
Our purpose, values, and commitment to lasting impact start with our people.
Our people are the heart of our advantage. We are intellectually curious, asking incisive questions, respectfully challenging one another, and striving to succeed together. Actively participating in high-stakes problem-solving is how we’ve grown and will continue to grow because we know that our impact is greater together.
DESCRIPTION:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Systems Analyst with Workday experience to join our dynamic team. This role will be responsible for analyzing, designing, and optimizing Workday solutions to support our Finance team and business operations. The ideal candidate will drive system enhancements, provide analytical insights, and work cross-functionally to align Workday configurations with the firm’s investment and business strategies.
The role entails engagement at various levels in all technology related initiatives from inception to implementation and support. Through in-depth knowledge of the business, this position will configure business processes, develop needs analysis, document functional & technical specifications, perform system & user acceptance testing, and effectively communicate complex technology concepts to various levels of stakeholders. The successful candidate will build strong relationships with stakeholders by delivering and presenting impactful, technology-driven solutions that provide strategic insights and improve operational efficiency across diverse business units.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide ongoing evaluations of technology solutions and capabilities to ensure alignment with business objectives. Identify areas of risk, while monitoring the current environment, potential improvement areas, and the financial implications of those decisions
- Gather, validate, document, and facilitate implementation of business requirements for technology initiatives (includes business/data requirements, data flows, data modeling, workflow context and design, and user interface designs)
- Participate in user acceptance testing and support system training / documentation
- Form strong working relationships with internal users - both business and technical
- Ability to balance responsibilities related to production support and project tasks simultaneously
- Create documentation in support of business and technology requests
- Manage Workday releases, testing, and system upgrades, ensuring smooth adoption of new features.
TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE:
- Strong expertise in supporting Workday Financials
- Expertise building integrations to/from Workday and XML transformations required
- Expertise in SQL required
- Prior Experience in financial reporting and analytics a plus
- Prior experience supporting Corporate functional areas such as Human Resources, Corporate Finance, Compliance, Tax or Legal a plus
- Familiarity with technology architectures and concepts: cloud computing, web interfaces, relational databases, application integration
- Hands on experience understanding business requirements, designing, prototyping, testing solutions and training users in an agile environment
- Experience working in teams using agile software project management processes
- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in supporting & implementing applications
- Proficiency in business intelligence applications (Tableau or Power BI) a plus
- Competent in taking details from elicitation sessions and delivering requirements documentation
- Competent in developing workflow and functional Use Cases
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, management information systems and/or finance or business
- 3+ years of relevant experience; previous consulting experience a plus
- Workday certifications in relevant modules a plus
- Experience with Workday Prism Analytics, Workforce Planning, Strategic Sourcing, Extend, or Studio integrations a plus
- Experience with investment management, private equity, venture capital, alternatives investment / finance concepts / terminology and systems a plus
- Strong problem-solving skills, ability to analyze complex data and present actionable insights
- Experience with a functionally diverse, informed user base that demands high quality solutions
- A self-starter with a proactive approach to problem-solving and idea generation
- Must be able to work on multiple initiatives simultaneously and prioritize assignments to deliver quality work in a timely manner
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex concepts to diverse audiences
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What We Do
Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading alternative investment firms. More than 1,200 Bain Capital employees work together at locations in Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Palo Alto, London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Melbourne, Sydney, Madrid, Luxembourg, Munich, Mumbai, Seoul, and Tokyo to manage approximately $155 billion in assets.
Founded in 1984, Bain Capital has advanced a consulting-based approach to investment. We develop close partnerships with management teams around the world, uncovering valuable insights that drive long-term value to businesses and markets. We have expanded this approach beyond private equity to several asset classes, including credit, fixed income, public equity, venture capital, and real estate. We’re dedicated to responsible business practices, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards are critical considerations in our investment approach.
We strive to create lasting impact for all stakeholders: our investors, our teams, our businesses, and the communities we’re a part of. We believe our shared values form the core of our competitive advantage:
- We develop exceptional partnerships. We know great outcomes come from great teams.
- We challenge conventional thinking. We think differently. We nurture a culture of deep objective inquiry and seek the full potential in every opportunity.
- We work with tenacity. We roll up our sleeves, dig in, and come to work every day searching for better outcomes.
- We believe character matters. We prize personal integrity and humility.
Our team also supports a variety of charitable and nonprofit organizations by donating time, expertise and resources through the Bain Capital Community Partnership. Bain Capital Children's Charity, founded in 1996, has proven this by providing more than $55 million to 350 youth-related causes thanks to contributions from the firm’s employees and partners.
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