Description
About the Role
As part of the Enterprise IT Applications team, the IT Applications Support Analyst owns the day-to-day support, configuration, and continuous improvement of the enterprise applications that power Billing, Order-to-Cash (O2C), and Cash Reconciliation.
This role keeps these business-critical finance systems running reliably , troubleshooting incidents, fulfilling change requests, and partnering with Finance stakeholders to translate business needs into well-supported application solutions.
A core focus of this role is applying AI and automation to modernize how finance applications are supported.
Responsibilities
Application Support & Incident Management
- Provide support for billing, O2C, and cash-reconciliation applications, owning complex incidents and escalations.
- Triage, investigate, and resolve application issues within agreed SLAs, performing root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
- Manage the incident, problem, and change lifecycle in the ITSM tool, keeping tickets and documentation current.
- Coordinate with vendors and internal teams to resolve defects, raise support cases, and track fixes through to closure.
- Support the month-end billing run , monitoring billing jobs/batches, troubleshooting failures, and ensuring invoices generate completely and on time for close.
AI & Automation
- Identify and build AI- and automation-driven solutions to reduce manual effort, accelerate issue resolution, and lower ticket volume.
- Apply automation to repetitive support, configuration, and reconciliation tasks.
- Leverage AI tooling for intelligent ticket triage, root-cause analysis, anomaly detection, and knowledge-base assistance.
- Partner with Finance and IT to automate reconciliations, exception handling, and cash-application logic.
- Stay current on emerging AI and automation capabilities and champion their adoption across the supported application portfolio.
Configuration, Enhancements & Releases
- Configure and maintain application settings supporting billing rules, pricing, order workflows, payment application, and reconciliation logic.
- Gather requirements from Finance stakeholders and translate them into configuration changes, enhancements, or functional specifications.
- Support testing, deployments, and release cycles, including regression testing for patches and upgrades.
- Maintain technical and functional documentation, SOPs, and knowledge-base articles for the supported applications.
Integrations, Data & Reconciliation Support
- Monitor and support integrations and interfaces between billing/O2C/cash systems and the ERP, banks, payment gateways, and data warehouse.
- Investigate data and interface failures and drive timely resolution.
- Write and run queries/reports to analyze issues, validate data, and support audit and month-end close activities.
- Partner with Finance to ensure system controls, automated reconciliations, and cash-application logic operate accurately and reliably.
Stakeholder & Continuous Improvement
- Act as a trusted point of contact between Enterprise IT and Finance Operations for the supported application portfolio.
- Identify automation, AI, configuration, and process-improvement opportunities to reduce manual effort and ticket volume.
- Support compliance, security, and audit requirements for in-scope applications.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field , or equivalent practical experience.
- 8–12 years of experience supporting enterprise/finance applications, ideally within billing, O2C, AR, or cash-reconciliation domains.
- Demonstrated experience applying AI and/or automation to streamline support, operations, or finance processes.
- Hands-on experience supporting or administering Zuora and NetSuite, and the integration between them.
- Strong working knowledge of end-to-end Order-to-Cash processes and the systems that support them.
Nice to Haves
- Experience building automations with scripting, workflow platforms, or RPA tools, and applying AI/ML to support or finance operations.
- Experience acting as a senior/escalation resource within an IT applications support team.
- Familiarity with reconciliation or automation platforms and payment/banking integrations.
- Exposure to integration technologies and reporting/BI tools.
- ITIL certification and/or experience supporting SOX-controlled or audited financial applications.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay
- Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
- Work-from-office expectations: 2-3 days per week
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