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About The Team
The Finance Innovation & Transformation (FIT) organization partners closely with FP&A, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and Technology teams to modernize financial planning, improve data transparency, and enable faster, more confident decision making across the enterprise.
FIT focuses on aligning planning processes, systems, and data to support scalable forecasting, accurate reporting, and operational excellence across Finance.
The Role
We are seeking a Business Systems Analyst Finance Systems with a strong FP&A orientation to support the accuracy, reliability, and usability of eBay's financial planning and reporting ecosystem. This role works across Anaplan, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), BlackLine, and automation tools such as Alteryx to ensure that Finance stakeholders have trusted data for planning, forecasting, and performance analysis.
The ideal candidate brings a deep understanding of FP&A processes and financial systems, with demonstrated strength in auditing data, reconciling variances, and resolving reporting issues across integrated platforms.
What You Will Accomplish
- Support daytoday operations of FP&Acritical systems including Anaplan, SAP S/4HANA, and SAC, ensuring stable planning and reporting cycles
- Partner closely with FP&A teams during budgeting, forecasting, and outlook cycles, supporting data readiness, validation, and issue resolution
- Perform endtoend audits and reconciliations between planning, ERP, and reporting systems to ensure forecast and actuals alignment
- Investigate and explain plan vs. actual, forecast vs. forecast, and reporting variances, identifying root causes related to data, mappings, or system behavior
- Validate planning master data, hierarchies, drivers, and assumptions to ensure consistency across models and reports
- Support management and executive reporting by ensuring data accuracy, timing, and transparency
- Leverage automation and analytics tools (e.g., Alteryx) to streamline reconciliations, variance analysis, and validation checks, reducing manual effort
- Support user acceptance testing (UAT) for planning model changes, system upgrades, and new integrations impacting FP&A processes
- Maintain validation reports, reconciliation frameworks, and documentation to support auditability and repeatable planning cycles
- Collaborate with Accounting, IT, and data teams to resolve integration, timing, and data quality issues affecting forecasts and reports
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on forecast accuracy, planning efficiency, and data trust
What You Will Bring
- 3+ years of experience supporting FP&A, finance systems, or financial planning and reporting processes
- Handson experience with planning and reporting platforms such as Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP S/4HANA, or similar tools
- Strong experience in auditing, reconciling, and validating planning and actuals data across multiple systems
- Proven ability to analyze and resolve forecasting and reporting discrepancies with clear, financeoriented explanations
- Solid understanding of FP&A processes, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting
- Experience supporting planning-to-ERP integrations and understanding how upstream data impacts forecasts
- Proficiency with automation or data preparation tools (e.g., Alteryx, advanced Excel) to support FP&A analysis and controls
- Ability to manage competing priorities during critical planning and close timelines
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate system behavior into FP&Arelevant insights
- Exposure to global FP&A operations or COE models preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Technology, or related field
Additional Details
eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [Confidential Information]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.
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