Senior Business Systems Analyst
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Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Job type: Contract/Locum
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Job Description
The role of the Business Systems Analyst is to work as a liaison between the business and technology teams in order to improve the products and services being delivered by the IT organization.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develops thorough knowledge of assigned business area and Payroll system functions
- Works with business area to fully understand business objective and business requirements
- Elicits business requirements from partners and translates them into functional specifications
- Partners with business and with developers in designing functionality based on stated business requirements and system capabilities
- Provides technical/functional consultative direction in identifying, evaluating and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet user requirements
- Prepares process flow diagrams and system diagrams describing current and to-be process
- Prepares detailed technical specifications from which programs will be written
- Works with our business partners in troubleshooting and analyzing problems
- Leads cross-functional teams to address business or system issues / solutions
- May lead enhancement level and small to medium projects
- Develops project plans and timelines for small to medium projects
- Supports team by assisting with: clarifying requirements, functionality questions, testing, implementation, and other deployment and delivery functions as assigned
- Serves as lead conduit between developers, architects and designers, and with internal business partner and/or vendor companies
- Maintains effective levels of communication with team members, management, business areas and vendors
- Provides guidance and direction to less experienced business systems analysts
Job Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree in CS/CE/CIS/MIS/Engineering/Technology or related field or equivalent experience and/or training
- 5+ years of Business Systems Analyst experience
- Ability to work independently and manage one’s time (Required)
- SAP experience with Payroll emphasis (Required)
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrate experience in preparing detailed specifications
- Detail oriented demonstrating initiative, follow-through, sound business judgment
- Demonstrate ability to present information, project updates and interacting with various target audiences
- Must be well organized, thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment, leverage best practices, and most importantly, innovate through any problem with a can-do attitude
- Expert ability to plan strategically for current and future business environments, including future technology and business design changes to create flexible solutions
- Expert knowledge of system flows, engineering documentation, tools and architecture concepts
- Expert understanding of business systems and industry requirements and full technical knowledge of Systems Analysis
- Demonstrate experience leading small to medium projects
- Agile or ACTIVATE experience - a plus
- HPQC experience a plus
- Sharepoint experience a plus
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