Business analyst

Skills

• Interface with executive and operational management to determine integration solution requirements • Define and document reporting metrics and how they are calculated from source system data. Analyze source data systems for content write technical definition specifications report layout/mockups and test scripts • Develop requirements for scorecards and reports which communicate metrics goals and performance-to-date • Collaborate with and guide development resources to rapidly develop integration assets. Insures consistency and adherence to enterprise standards • Works with business customers on an ongoing basis to continually improve and refine middleware solutions • Identify and analyze performance trends including drivers of performance and forecast impact on future results. Where applicable makes recommendations on use of information to improve results including recommendations on changes to business processes • Provides research audit and analysis of complex data needs. • Strong understanding of business processes and integrated transactional systems • Sustain a credible rapport with key stakeholders • Other projects pertaining to management reporting performance tracking and business process improvement as assigned • Document production issues resolutions and root cause

Description

The candidates we have been getting are more business analysts from a data warehouse or infrastructure setting. We need someone who understands the business setting

· We need someone who is good/comfortable with data (running queries) and SCRUM teams, but we need people with the functional knowledge and someone who understands business concepts. Here are some examples of what we mean by functional knowledge. Experience in the following systems or business functions:

The business side of an organization - Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, **Order Management, Utilities
Someone who understands how to setup a Customer in a system
· What is a customer? and what are the attributes of a customer?

How do they make transactions, get billed for their transactions, and receive their products, etc. (order to cash cycle)
Experience with ERP systems (when we say Oracle, we don’t mean the Oracle database, we mean the Oracle ERP)
· Business applications like Salesforce.com, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, etc.

The candidate will need to be a bridge between the Business and the people doing the development (coding)

Responsibilities

• • Degree in business, statistics, or information systems or equivalent work experience
• • 5+ years’ experience in a business or technical analysis role
• • Strong SQL (Structured Query Language) and data extraction skills – ability to extract and manipulate data from common data base systems (Oracle, SQL Server, etc)
• • Superior analytical and problem solving skills
• • Experience with Agile style project management techniques
• • Ability to work independently or in a group setting
• • Strong business writing/presentation development skills
• • Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to provide constructive feedback to management
• • Ability to clearly present written and verbal information to executive management
• • Excellent attention to detail and ability to probe underlying business need
• Preferred:
• • Bachelor’s degree.
• • Experience with business intelligence, mobile and web development environments.
• • Experience in workflow modeling, data modeling, process engineering
• • Understanding of integration process, tools, technologies (ESB, SOA, ETL)