IT Business Analyst

Role Overview

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather, document, and analyze business requirements and processes
• Design and propose solutions that meet business needs while ensuring alignment with company goals and strategies
• Analyze business data to uncover opportunities and ways for improvement
• Create detailed functional specifications, user stories, and other documentation to support project development and implementation
• Act as liaison between the business units and IT
• Travel may be required
• Elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation of business requirements through collaboration with internal and external customers
• Record requirements through creation of user stories and functional specs
• Refine user stories and estimate them through story points
• Assess proposed solutions to ensure they meet the business requirements
• Identify project-specific risks throughout the development lifecycle
• Analyze and model existing business processes, and develop new processes that meet the business requirements
• Create reports and write queries, then analyze data to provide insights and recommendations
• Formulate solutions for small to medium projects, participate in projects of all sizes
• Create and validate test scenarios and test cases
• Execute unit test cases
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), then report and communicate UAT metrics
• Communicate requirements to counterparts within the IT organization
• Support the creation of training presentations and SOPs
• Provide training to business users and counterparts in the IT organization for process changes, projects changes, or day-to-day activities
• Identify and define business needs and areas of improvement
• Create low complexity project plans with timelines
• Resolve problems, control projects, and ensure deadlines and project budgets are met, when defined as project lead

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Business, Computer Science or related field
• A minimum of 5 years of in-depth business experience, with the bulk of that experience serving a business/IT liaison role
• Experience in business analysis and providing business solutions
• Basic knowledge of systems development cycles, methodologies, and workflow diagramming
• Knowledge of business and technical environments
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Experience in Oracle e-Business Suite/ERP (preferred)
• Experience with financial processes such as payables, receivables, and general ledger (preferred)
• Experience leading User Acceptance Testing sessions (preferred)
• Experience working in the manufacturing industry (preferred)

Tech Stack

• ERP
• Oracle

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• 401(k) Investment Plan with company match
• Pension plan
• Life insurance
• Accident insurance
• Legal insurance
• Pet insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Quarterly (hourly) / Annual (salary) bonus potential based on performance metrics