Senior Business Systems Analyst

A Sr Business Systems Analyst will lead across a variety of business and technical stakeholders to translate functional and technical requirements into detailed system specifications for the development and enhancement of new and existing software technology solutions.

This position is on site located in Springfield, MO.

• Document "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability to accurately record the changes required.
• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders, employing various techniques such as interviews, workshops and surveys. Critically analyze and decompose complex business needs into functional and non-functional requirements.
• Use data from a wide range of sources to analyze key themes and identify possible impacts on the business.
• Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level.
• Identify, elicit, and document project/process requirements, using appropriate techniques. Analyze requirements and validate with original users, eliminating confusion. Define the testing scripts and verification criteria to ensure requirements are met. Maintain documentation and traceability throughout project.
• Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications, including data models, process flows, system interfaces, and integration requirements. Create clear and concise documentation for development and testing teams.
• Explore and develop a basic understanding of external developments or emerging issues and contribute to the evaluation of their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
• Carry out feasibility and assessment work for proposed and current projects to contribute to the development and continuous review of business cases.
• Deliver small- or medium-scale projects while working within an established program management plan.
• Effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business users, engineers, testers, and project managers.
• Support a culture of innovation by contributing to solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration.
• Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, and industry best practices through ongoing education and reading specialist media.

Required:

• Experience supporting technical projects, implementations, and modernization initiatives.
• Experience communicating across different levels and teams
• Knowledge or experience in software development
• Determines and analyzes trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making.
• Conducts gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy.
• Understands business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of technology and operational processes.
• Envisions and documents the future state of processes and technology by identifying the solution scope, potential value of the future state, and the changes to the process, technology, organization infrastructure, and capabilities necessary to achieve the desired future state.
• Leads facilitated sessions for requirement elicitation, focus groups, and user acceptance testing.
• Expresses user needs in terms of business requirements, identifies current capability of the business to deliver, conduct build or buy analyses, and recommend preferred approach.
• Creates the rules for requirements and design quality, performs verification activities, and maintains quality control.
• Utilizes the appropriate modeling tool(s) to diagram the requirements from data and state changes, process and process improvements, as well as use cases and user stories.
• Creates clear, comprehensive, effective, and user-friendly guides, manuals, narratives, and reports that convey complex technical concepts, using documentation tools to craft structured and visually appealing content that meets the intended purposes.
• Identifies, selects, and manages the oversight of business analysis work, including decision making, change control, prioritization, and approval processes.
• Identifies potential stakeholders, analyzes their expectations, and develops strategies for managing stakeholders and their expectations.

• ERP implementation experience
• Interprets, contributes to, or leads business case creation with client departments to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment.
• Uses database reporting tools and techniques.
• Plans, identifies, monitors, analyzes, and…