Short Description:
Work to hire position for financial systems implementation, to document requirements and workflows, and to help maintain and develop effective solutions. Some experience with ERP, business productivity tools, and business intelligence software desired.
Complete Description:
The Business Analyst is responsible for the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
BA Years of Relevant Experience:
Up to 4 years
Preferred Education:
4 year college degree or equivalent.
Role Description:
•Conduct Facilitated Workshops and meetings for requirements analysis. Work directly with the business users to identify, define, interpret and clarify scope of problems/issues in terms of system requirements and processes.
•Strong organization and writing skills. Experienced developing graphic representations of complex business processes.
•Organize business information during the requirement gathering process
•Partner closely with other teams, identifying and articulating business needs.
•Help develop more effective solutions for the business
•Create project plans for information technology development and testing.
•Be involved in design specifications, test analysis, initial & ongoing user training, as well as implementation and support of financial orientated systems (Accounting, Payroll, Fixed Assets, Treasury, etc).
•Experience developing Report Specifications - define the purpose of a report, its justification, attributes and columns, owners and runtime parameters.
•Prepare comprehensive financial, statistical, technical, and narrative reports
Skills:
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Strong Excel skills, including pivots, Vlookup, conditional formatting, large record sets, including data manipulation and cleaning.
Required
4
Years
Solid written and verbal communication and organization skills
Required
5
Years
Strong documentation and training skills
Required
4
Years
Positive, self-starter able to work effectively with teams. Possess great follow-through.
Required
4
Years
Ability to organize and coordinate multiple tasks and communicate information in a timely fashion
Required
4
Years
A good understanding of business intelligence & productivity tools
Highly desired
3
Years
Understand database structures and relationships
Desired
2
Years
Some business analytics experience (Crystal, Webi, ACCESS, SSRS)
Nice to have
1
Years
Experience inspecting, cleaning, transforming, and modeling data
Nice to have
1
Years
Experience with ERP/financial system implementations especially Lawson, Dynamics AX, and/or Performance Series
Nice to have
1
Years