Business Systems Analyst

Job Description Business & Data Analysis

• Working closely with business stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document requirements for the data repository project from each finance department to understand data sources, business requirements, and reporting needs.
• Partner with Finance, HR, and ITS stakeholders to understand business processes, data definitions, and reporting needs.
• Translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications for data ingestion, transformation, and consumption.
• Creating and leading systems requirement documentation standards, including Use Case modeling, User Story creations and narrative description.
• Collaborating with the data architect to ensure the planned data repository meets UC Finance business requirements.

• Serve as a key contributor to the design and evolution of an AWS-based data lake architecture.
• Work closely with data engineers and architects on integrations using AWS services such as Glue, Lambda, S3, Athena, Lake Formation, and Quick Sight.
• Conducting data profiling and data quality analysis using SQL and Python.
• Developing and maintaining mapping documents and source-to-target specifications.
• Support API-based, batch, and event-driven integrations across enterprise systems.

• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, data engineering, analytics, and ITS team.
• Participating and leading backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Creating test plans, execution of unit testing, and UAT activities for data and integration initiatives.
• Ensure solutions align with institutional priorities, data governance standards, privacy requirements, and compliance obligations.
• Communicating technical information to technical and non-technical personnel at various levels within an organization.

• Support data governance practices, including data definitions, lineage, access controls, and auditability.
• Ensure appropriate handling of sensitive financial and payroll/personnel data (PII/PHI where applicable).
• Produce clear, thorough documentation including requirements, data models, process flows, and test scenarios.

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• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer information system, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst or a similar role, preferably in data-centric environments.
• Solid understanding of AWS data services (Glue, Lambda, S3, Quick Sight or similar).
• Strong experience with financial systems, including budget and planning, payroll, and personnel data.
• Proven experience supporting data integration and analytics platforms, preferably in a cloud environment.

• Experience in higher education, specifically finance subject area or other complex enterprise environments.
• Understanding of data governance and concepts such as data architecture, data security, and data quality.
• Knowledge of data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.