Senior Business Analyst

This position works within a larger Project Team focusing on replacing and enhancing business-critical systems and primary business processes. This position collaborates heavily with business stakeholders, IT teams, and technology partners to understand and document, validate, test, and train on business process transformation mapping as well as functional requirements in support of custom software development for a global merchandiser and processor of agricultural goods.

Primary Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

• Partners with business unit personnel at multiple locations to understand business needs and translate those needs into detailed business process documentation, serving as a baseline for the creation of functional requirements for software development
• Collaborates closely with remote IT teams and technology partners to refine and validate functional requirements, and transition into technical requirements for software development
• Develops, in partnership with business stakeholders, acceptance criteria and test cases and facilitates user acceptance testing
• Researches, identifies, and documents current business process functions (AS IS) and partners with business stakeholders to facilitate improvement and transformation of business processes (TO BE) with an end goal of implementing a modern software platform supporting key business processes
• Gains a robust understanding of company business concepts and processes in order to support efficient development of functional and system requirements
• Works effectively in a multicultural project team with stakeholders around the globe, and manages multiple concurrent requirements and development streams
• Builds, organizes, and maintains logical linking of functional requirements as mapped to business processes
• Collaborates with business process teams to translate developed functionality into real-world application through training and documentation
• Knowledge and expertise of software tools to assist with documentation, reequipments, tasks to ensure project delivery
• Project coordination of various project delivery tasks, as needed

Additional Responsibilities:

• As with all other roles within the IT team, the emphasis is strongly on tackling any tasks needed to drive progress and successful outcomes, rather than artificial task silos by role or title. As a result, other various duties and responsibilities may be assigned on an ad hoc basis across projects and other team activities.

Company Conformance Statements

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following:

• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
• Interact professionally with co-workers, Company business associates and the general public.
• Work together in a cooperative spirit to serve the best interests of the Company.
• Operate in a fully responsible manner and comply with the law and Company policy.

Education/Professional Certifications/Licenses

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited 4-year college or university

Preferred qualification:

• Master’s degree in business or computer science

Experience

Basic qualifications:

• 7+ (plus) years of strong technical or operational experience in financial or trading systems and a successful history of project plan completion
• Experience analyzing, implementing and supporting enterprise reporting architectures and related technologies
• Experience in participating in cross-functional project teams environment; ability to perform in various roles from individual contributor to a leadership role; ability to contribute to planning, organization and managing of project teams using a structured delivery methodology
• Experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other business organizations; successful experience in working with diverse groups of people in a problem-solving environment

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with functional and technical aspects of major enterprise business systems and related technologies.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities (including any physical demands)

Basic qualifications:

• Understanding of capabilities, features and limitations of system development tools
• Thorough understanding of planning, analysis and testing techniques required to support such systems
• Extensive knowledge/ experience in functional business areas, such as finance, accounting, information technology and trading operations
• Ability to act in a consultative role to understand functional business processes, related information technology needs and to develop solutions and delivery proposals
• Ability to effectively manage multiple assignments and priorities
• History of applying varied approaches to solve complex business support challenges of significance to the organization
• Advanced knowledge of standard business tools such as MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Equipment Used

• Typical office equipment: PC, telephone

Working Conditions

• Typical climate-controlled office environment. Extensions of regular working hours are occasionally necessary to complete time sensitive projects, attend training or to respond to emergencies. Spends long periods of time working on a computer screen. Occasional travel may be required.

Employee Supervision

• Not applicable.

Decision Making/Accountability

• May assist with the following: Analysis of back-office business systems and integration processes; documents operational specifications requirements; translates business process into computer system requirements; reviews systems and makes recommendations for customization based on knowledge of relevant business processes; applies thorough understanding of the software development life cycle; efficient implementations of system enhancements that meet user requirements and project deadlines; recommends procedural changes to operational personnel and management as deemed necessary.

Requirements

Primary Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

• Partners with business unit personnel at multiple locations to understand business needs and translate those needs into detailed business process documentation, serving as a baseline for the creation of functional requirements for software development
• Collaborates closely with remote IT teams and technology partners to refine and validate functional requirements, and transition into technical requirements for software development
• Develops, in partnership with business stakeholders, acceptance criteria and test cases and facilitates user acceptance testing
• Researches, identifies, and documents current business process functions (AS IS) and partners with business stakeholders to facilitate improvement and transformation of business processes (TO BE) with an end goal of implementing a modern software platform supporting key business processes
• Gains a robust understanding of company business concepts and processes in order to support efficient development of functional and system requirements
• Works effectively in a multicultural project team with stakeholders around the globe, and manages multiple concurrent requirements and development streams
• Builds, organizes, and maintains logical linking of functional requirements as mapped to business processes
• Collaborates with business process teams to translate developed functionality into real-world application through training and documentation
• Knowledge and expertise of software tools to assist with documentation, reequipments, tasks to ensure project delivery
• Project coordination of various project delivery tasks, as needed

Additional Responsibilities:

• As with all other roles within the IT team, the emphasis is strongly on tackling any tasks needed to drive progress and successful outcomes, rather than artificial task silos by role or title. As a result, other various duties and responsibilities may be assigned on an ad hoc basis across projects and other team activities.

Company Conformance Statements

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following:

• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
• Interact professionally with co-workers, Company business associates and the general public.
• Work together in a cooperative spirit to serve the best interests of the Company.
• Operate in a fully responsible manner and comply with the law and Company policy.

Education/Professional Certifications/Licenses

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited 4-year college or university

Preferred qualification:

• Master’s degree in business or computer science

Experience

Basic qualifications:

• 7+ (plus) years of strong technical or operational experience in financial or trading systems and a successful history of project plan completion
• Experience analyzing, implementing and supporting enterprise reporting architectures and related technologies
• Experience in participating in cross-functional project teams environment; ability to perform in various roles from individual contributor to a leadership role; ability to contribute to planning, organization and managing of project teams using a structured delivery methodology
• Experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other business organizations; successful experience in working with diverse groups of people in a problem-solving environment

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with functional and technical aspects of major enterprise business systems and related technologies.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities (including any physical demands)

Basic qualifications:

• Understanding of capabilities, features and limitations of system development tools
• Thorough understanding of planning, analysis and testing techniques required to support such systems
• Extensive knowledge/ experience in functional business areas, such as finance, accounting, information technology and trading operations
• Ability to act in a consultative role to understand functional business processes, related information technology needs and to develop solutions and delivery proposals
• Ability to effectively manage multiple assignments and priorities
• History of applying varied approaches to solve complex business support challenges of significance to the organization
• Advanced knowledge of standard business tools such as MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills