Remote Finance Jobs in Walpole, MA (NOW HIRING)

Title: Senior Finance Transformation BA

Location: Cambridge, MA 02139 - can be 100% remote with travel expense

Remote / Hybrid Schedule: 1x a month onsite for a week

Start: ASAP

Duration: 6+ Months

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops with Finance, FP&A, Accounting, Procurement / SS&P, IT, Reporting, Data, Gates Foundation shared services, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Document current-state and future-state processes across budgeting, forecasting, budget-to-actuals, close, accruals, allocations, procurement intake, approvals, supplier/vendor workflows, PO/invoice handling, reporting, reconciliations, and cross-functional handoffs.
• Translate business pain points into clear business requirements, user stories, functional specifications, data requirements, acceptance criteria, decision records, and implementation-ready options.
• Serve as the day-to-day bridge between MRI business teams and Foundation platform, data, reporting, finance operations, procurement, and support resources.
• Clarify ownership, dependencies, handoffs, intake paths, escalation routes, service expectations, and the practical route from MRI business need to delivered outcome.
• Bridge business needs and technical delivery across D365, Coupa, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday, ServiceNow, Power BI, Excel-based models, integrations, data marts, and workflow/reporting tools.
• Help stakeholders evaluate practical options, trade-offs, constraints, dependencies, implementation paths, and downstream operating implications without over-engineering or assuming every issue requires a new system or custom build.
• Support data mapping, reporting definitions, KPI/metric alignment, semantic-layer inputs, and requirements involving budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, project codes, cost centers, vendors, POs, invoices, accruals, allocations, and program/project reporting.
• Create and maintain a prioritized backlog of process, system, reporting, data, automation, and AI-enabled improvement opportunities, including value, feasibility, dependencies, ownership, risks, and sequencing.
• Maintain project plans, meeting notes, action logs, RAID logs, decision logs, dependency trackers, concise status materials, and stakeholder follow-ups.
• Coordinate UAT planning, test scenarios, defect tracking, validation evidence, business sign-off, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Help define governance, ownership, RACI, escalation paths, operating routines, documentation standards, change management, and training materials so improvements are repeatable and sustainable.
• Identify practical opportunities to use automation, analytics, workflow tools, and AI to reduce manual effort, improve knowledge capture, accelerate analysis, or strengthen business support processes.

Expected Deliverables

• Workshop plans, agendas, notes, decision records, and action trackers.
• Current-state and future-state process maps and narratives.
• Business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Decision-ready options, trade-off summaries, dependency maps, and implementation considerations.
• Shared services intake, ownership, escalation, and handoff documentation.
• Data mapping, reporting, dashboard, KPI/metric, and semantic-layer requirements.
• Prioritized backlog of process, system, reporting, data, automation, and AI opportunities.
• RAID log, decision log, dependency tracker, project plan, and weekly status reports.
• UAT plans, test scenarios, defect logs, validation evidence, and business sign-off documentation.
• Governance, RACI, escalation, operating model, training, and change-management support materials as needed.

Must-Have Experience

• 7+ years of experience in finance transformation, finance business analysis, finance systems, finance project management, enterprise systems consulting, or a similar BA/BSA role.
• Strong working knowledge of G&A processes, especially Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Procurement, shared services, reporting, workflow, and financial controls.
• Strong working knowledge of Accounting and FP&A processes, including budgeting, forecasting, budget-to-actuals reporting, month-end close, accruals, cash reporting, journal entries, cost allocations, reconciliations, and financial controls.
• Demonstrated ability to translate Finance, Accounting, Procurement, and operations needs into clear requirements for IT, developers, data teams, application owners, vendors, and shared services partners.
• Hands-on experience with ERP, planning, procurement, workflow, reporting, finance data, or enterprise application platforms.
• Ability to shape practical solution options, identify trade-offs, and connect business process, data, systems, reporting, integrations, governance, and operating model implications.
• Strong process mapping, requirements gathering, user story writing, acceptance criteria definition, documentation, and workshop facilitation skills.
• Experience managing project plans, status reports, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, action logs, stakeholder follow-ups, and delivery coordination.
• Experience supporting UAT, test scenario development, defect tracking, validation evidence, business sign-off, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Ability to distinguish whether an issue is primarily a process, data, system configuration, integration, reporting, governance, ownership, or change-management issue.
• Experience operating independently in ambiguous, cross-functional environments with business, IT, shared services, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong written communication, facilitation, documentation, stakeholder-management, and executive-summary skills.

Nice-to-Have Experience

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, Coupa, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday, ServiceNow, Power BI, Jira, SharePoint/Teams, or similar platforms.
• Experience working in or with a shared services model, especially where platform ownership, process ownership, data/reporting ownership, and operational support are distributed across organizational boundaries.
• Experience with finance data marts, reporting layers, dashboards, master data, integrations, semantic layers, or data governance initiatives.
• Experience in life sciences, biotech, clinical development, nonprofit, foundation, grant-funded, R&D-heavy, or matrixed/shared-services organizations.
• Experience with project accounting, funder/grant reporting, program-level financial reporting, clinical trial/R&D forecasting, procurement intake, supplier onboarding, contract workflows, approval routing, and PO/invoice processes.
• Exposure to Agile, Scrum, SDLC, product/backlog management, and Jira-based delivery practices.
• Practical familiarity with AI, workflow automation, low-code/no-code tools, analytics, or knowledge-management approaches that can be applied responsibly in enterprise operations.

CPA, CMA, PMP, PMI-PBA, CBAP, Agile/Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, or similar certification.