Financial Reporting Analyst - Elevate Initiative; Finance & Records

Overview

Financial Reporting Analyst - Elevate Initiative (Finance & Records) | Salt Lake City, UT, United States (Hybrid)

To meet the needs of the Church, we seek to build teams that represent the diverse perspectives, broad life experiences and backgrounds of our global Church membership. With that in mind, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

• Reporting Design & Development:
  Build and enhance financial reports using Oracle Fusion Cloud (OTBI, Financial Reporting Center, Smart View) and Fusion Data Intelligence in alignment with Elevate technical standards and platform decisions. Translate business requirements into reporting specifications including metrics, hierarchies, drill paths, and security rules. Ensure designs adhere to established data flows, reporting layers, and target-state reporting architecture.
• Reporting Governance & Compliance:
  Maintain and curate the Financial Reporting Inventory, including metadata, lineage, system-of-origin identification, and use cases. Ensure all reports comply with Church financial reporting standards and Elevate Governance principles. Participate in governance reviews, approvals, and version control processes.
• Data Validation & Quality Assurance:
  Validate report outputs by tracing values back to Oracle subledgers, the general ledger, and FDI/FAW datasets. Support testing cycles (SIT, UAT, regression) for reporting functionality related to Elevate releases. Investigate data issues, performing root-cause analysis with data engineering and functional SMEs.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  Collaborate with finance stakeholders, departmental reporting leads, Regional Process Leads, and functional work streams to capture requirements and confirm solution accuracy. Support end-users through training, documentation, Oracle Guided Learning content contributions, and change management activities.
• Documentation & Standards:
  Create and maintain documentation such as report specifications, data flow diagrams, validation rules, and reporting governance review artifacts.
• Reporting Transformation Support:
  Contribute to Elevate’s shift to modern reporting platforms (FDI/FAW), supporting dataset design discussions and participating in design decisions related to analytics structures. Identify opportunities to rationalize legacy reports and convert them to standardized enterprise solutions.

Required

• Four+ years of experience in financial reporting, accounting analytics, or financial systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud reporting tools (OTBI, FRC, Smart View) and/or enterprise BI platforms.
• Strong understanding of GL, subledger accounting, and financial consolidation concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into structured reporting solutions.
• Experience with data validation, reconciliations, and financial data quality practices.
• Excellent communication skills, especially in documenting reporting requirements and findings.

Preferred

• Experience with Fusion Analytics Warehouse (FAW) or Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI).
• Exposure to large-scale ERP transformations (e.g., multi-phase, multi-workstream initiatives).
• Background in audit, controls, or policy-driven reporting frameworks.
• Experience supporting training and user adoption.

Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. Our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are working in His kingdom. The Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.

Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.