IT Product Line Analyst - Finance (Flexible Location)

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress.

The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

The primary objective of this position is to work as part of a global collaborative team responsible for partnering with Finance, Sustainability, Legal and Investor relations stakeholders on strategy and roadmap to envision Alcoa’s future together.

Will facilitate the process of prioritizing the product backlog with both business and technical stakeholders.

Will serve customers on their collectively determined and agreed priorities assessing investments based on value/impact.

Will also ensure roadmaps are visible, transparent, and are focused on customer needs and experience.

This role has responsibility to continue to support applications/tools currently in use through their full life cycle.

Efficiency, simplification, standardization and modernization of applications and processes should continue to be pursued.

A strong customer relationship is a key component to the success of the Finance Product Line Analyst role to ensure that service delivery meets agreed service objectives and supports company strategic priorities. This role requires a good understanding of corporate functions including Legal, Investor Relations, and Sustainability as well as Oracle EBS Financials experience.  The role will also be accountable for several reporting and data analytics business demands.

Responsibilities also include support for Alcoa compliance and privacy programs.

Major activities/Key challenges


* Work with corporate business teams in to ensure their needs are fulfilled and Support to optimize business performance


* Develops strong relationships, provides services to these business areas, comprehends current condition, business needs, strategies, and plans and recommends cost effective changes for existing processes and systems


* Use comprehensive knowledge of EBS and Corporate Legal, IR, and Sustainability practices to navigate through data and technology challenges


* Work closely with the business customers on reporting and data analytics needs (Orbit Analytics, Power BI, Global Data Warehouse, CSRD (ESG))


* Facilitates ideation, option development, solution design, implementation and deployment roadmap development for new (digital) initiatives and application projects


* Develop and document project requirements, including detailed specs, work estimates, timelines, deliverables, and milestones


* Provide leadership and direction to offshore technical development and support teams


* Stays current with technology trends and innovations and collaborates with IS Architecture & Governance, Integration, Infrastructure, Data Architects, Security, Data Privacy and other groups to ensure right adoption of business solution used by these areas.

Essential Knowledge & Skills/Education


* Bachelor or Master...