Business Systems Analyst

Job Description:

Business Systems Analyst

About the Role

We are seeking a Business Systems Analyst to join our Business Systems Development team. In this role, you will contribute to maintaining and enhancing the various Business Systems we develop, implement and maintain across the GVW group, supporting both legacy systems, modernization and transformational efforts. This role is responsible for analyzing and improving business processes and systems to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness. This role involves gathering and documenting requirements, designing solutions, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure successful implementation. The Business Systems Analyst acts as a bridge between business needs and technology solutions, ensuring that systems and processes align with organizational goals and objectives. The candidate would be working with the Software Development, Data, PMO, Business System Owners and Project Implementation teams (some external).

The ideal candidate is highly skilled in requirements elicitation, goes beyond the ask to understand the underlying intent and possible approaches to address it. They can produce high quality Business and Functional Requirements Documents (BRD/FRD) in traditional delivery methodologies and User Stories in agile delivery methodologies. The candidate can collaborate well with business and technology stakeholders to work towards the best possible solution and build cohesiveness and trust with high quality work, reliability and adaptability. As such, they are an excellent communicator.  

Key Responsibilities

•          Identify process inefficiencies and gaps.

•          Define and capture business, systems and project requirements.

•          Liaise between business stakeholders, development teams, and the PMO.

•          Provide business stakeholders with perspective on the overall roadmap and direction of critical systems.

•          Present pros and cons of business requests to stakeholders and advise on course of action.

•          Capture requirements and finalize process, application, and systems designs.

•          Ensure delivery of products that meet agreed-upon features and schedules.

•          Utilize process mapping techniques to document existing processes and identify areas for improvement. Conduct impact analysis of changes to processes and capability.

•          Evaluate existing and emerging technologies to improve business processes. Align with Technology Roadmap and Architecture Guidelines wrt recommendations made.

•          Devise change management strategies to facilitate smooth transitions.

•          Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, Business Analysts, and business units, to deliver high-quality solutions.

•          Work with the Development and Implementation teams to ensure test plans are developed in accordance with acceptance criteria and are executed correctly.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Information Technology or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience in gathering and documenting business and systems requirements and