Senior Business Systems Analyst

Description Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst in Scottsdale, AZ.Understand the business:
* Build trusted relationships with stakeholders across construction, engineering, procurement, operations, commercial, and finance
* Seek to understand business goals, pain points, process gaps, and technology opportunities before recommending solutions
* Map current state and future-state processes, conduct gap analysis, and assess business impact

Shape the work:
* Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and/or functional specifications
* Help prioritize the business systems backlog based on value, feasibility, risk, and stakeholder alignment
* Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives when needed to keep work clear and actionable

Deliver practical improvements:
* Coordinate implementation with IT capability teams, software vendors, developers, and business users
* Support testing, user acceptance, documentation, change control, and adoption activities for system updates, retirements, and implementations
* Communicate clearly with stakeholders throughout project phases to maintain alignment, risks, and tradeoffs

Improve the system landscape:
* Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce manual effort, automate repetitive tasks, and retire low-value legacy processes or technologies
* Monitor system and application adoption and gather feedback to inform them about iterative improvements Requirements
* Experience in or comparable to business analysis, business systems analysis, product ownership or technology delivery
* Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specifications, or practical delivery plan
* Experience mapping business processes and identifying implementable improvement opportunities
* Experience working with IT teams, software vendors, or software delivery teams to solve business needs
* Ability to manage competing priorities, facilitate tradeoff discussions, and align stakeholders around clear decisions
* Ability to support implementation activities, including testing, user acceptance, documentation, user readiness and adoption feedback
* Experience building stakeholder relationships, communicating business and technology needs, analyzing complex problems, and defining clear problem statements in business environments

What Will Put You Ahead:
* Experience supporting platforms or solutions in the EPC environment
* Experience with data and analytics governance and tools (IE; Snowflake, SQL, Power BI)
* Experience with AGILE teams and innovation frameworks
* Experience evaluating and applying intelligent technologies to improve business processes, decision making, and user adoption

Job Type Direct Hire Compensation
100000 - $135000