Business Applications Analyst

Department:
Budget, Planning, and Campus Strategy Office

The Business Applications Analyst serves as a subject matter expert and professional partner to Budget, Planning and Campus Strategy, and other central administrative functions by evaluating business processes and translating operational needs into scalable, sustainable solutions. Working closely with the Director of Business Optimization & Insights, this position leads cross-functional process improvement, workflow transformation, business analysis, and data-informed continuous improvement initiatives that improve efficiency, transparency, service delivery, and decision-making across CU Anschutz.

A primary near-term responsibility of this role will be supporting the University's transition of administrative workflows and automations from Smartsheet to Team Dynamix. The position will inventory existing forms, workflows, approvals, notifications, automations, integrations, reporting requirements, and business dependencies; facilitate current-state and future-state process design; identify opportunities to simplify and standardize processes before migration; and translate business requirements into sustainable Team Dynamix solutions in partnership with technical administrators, developers, and campus stakeholders.

The role functions as a business-facing solution discovery and product partner. Rather than beginning with a specific technology, the incumbent will work with business process owners to define the underlying problem, measure current performance, identify root causes, redesign processes, and determine the appropriate solution path. Solutions may include Team Dynamix workflow automation, process redesign, Anaplan connected planning, analytics and visualization, data/integration engineering, artificial intelligence, or other enterprise technologies.

The position applies Lean Six Sigma and related continuous-improvement methodologies, business analysis, workflow design, and analytics to establish measurable baselines and evaluate outcomes. The incumbent will develop operational metrics such as request volume, cycle time, queue time, exception rates, rework, service-level performance, automation rates, and estimated effort savings to demonstrate value realization and support ongoing improvement.

• Partner with central administrative units to identify, assess, and prioritize business process, workflow, and application improvement opportunities based on institutional value, complexity, risk, dependencies, and resource needs.
• Facilitate discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and workshops to document business needs, pain points, controls, handoffs, dependencies, desired outcomes, and measures of success.
• Develop current-state and future-state process maps and apply Lean Six Sigma, root-cause analysis, and continuous-improvement methods to simplify, standardize, and improve administrative processes before recommending solutions.
• Evaluate solution options including process redesign, Team Dynamix, Anaplan, analytics, data/integration engineering, artificial intelligence, and other enterprise capabilities; develop data-substantiated recommendations that articulate expected benefits, risks, and implementation considerations.

• Serve as a business and functional lead for the transition of administrative workflows and automations from Smartsheet to Team Dynamix, including inventory, assessment, prioritization, redesign, testing, implementation, stabilization, and lifecycle management.
• Document existing forms, workflows,…