Tax Applications Analyst II

Description FANNIE MAE THE COMPANY Fannie Mae exists to expand affordable housing and bring global capital to local communities in order to serve the U.S. housing market. Today, our focus is on preventing foreclosures, making mortgages and rental housing as affordable as possible, and supporting the housing recovery. We are rapidly building and realigning our company to better serve the market as we support the Administration's Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan. Join our dedicated, diverse, high-performing workforce and put your unique talents to good use as we work with our partners to advance our nation's housing recovery. For more information about Fannie Mae and our career opportunities, please visit www.fanniemae.com JOB INFORMATION Develop, modify, or update applications used by business units or infrastructure units. Collaborate with subject matter experts in those units to determine unit needs and business processes that are automated by the application. Participate in most or all of the steps in the software development life cycle to create and modify the software. KEY JOB FUNCTIONS

• Assess procedures and business processes in a financial management, accounting, transactional, or business operations unit for methods of automating them or improving existing applications supporting them.
• Translate tax business processes to determine how into requirements for IT applications.
• Participate in meetings with financial management, accounting, or product management staff and application developers and project managers to plan development or upgrades of applications connected to tax.
• Participate in planning testing and acceptance of newly developed tax accounting applications.
• May provide support to applications in production by tracking and troubleshooting problems and ensuring continued and efficient operation of application in production, and full access by its users.
• Develop queries, analyses, or reports from financial management applications for operations or management staff of assigned business unit.
• Analyze business requirements and technical specifications of applications in development to see how they can be developed into testable elements.
• Conduct tests of applications in production or in development, applications about to be migrated, or applications recently patched.
• Document test results, or compile results from tests conducted by others in standardized format. Report results to team management, application staff, and/or application owners.
• Report problems by providing reproducible test cases, and working with team members to close problem reports. Conduct root cause analysis of identified defects, providing business partners with sufficient detail to understand, replicate and resolve.

Requirements EDUCATION
 

• Bachelor Degree or Equivalent

 
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE
 

• 3 years of related experience

 
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
 

Strong SQL querying skills

Knowledge of data modeling and data warehousing concepts

Knowledge of finance and accounting concepts and patterns

Combination of MS Excel, MS Access, Business Objects, Hyperion Essbase and Oracle database skills  
 
EMPLOYMENT As a condition of employment with Fannie Mae, any successful job applicant will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screen and to successfully complete a background investigation, which may also include a credit check for positions in some areas of our business. Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer.