IT Senior Business Systems Analyst - Master Data Management

The Senior IT Business Systems Analyst leads the strategy and implementation of enterprise-wide business systems.
Supports IT leadership with planning IT projects, ensuring goals and objectives are met within an arranged time frame. 
Ensures solutions meet or exceed customer expectations.

• Interfaces with system support and logs technical assistance requests as needed.
• Utilizes industry best practices to drive the implementation of business systems and acts as the SME (subject matter expert) on specific projects.
• Works with system support to resolve questions, problems, and enhancement requests.
• Gathers system requirements from business users and creates functional requirement documents.
• Consults with business and technical teams to define necessary requirements.
• Works through and contributes to all phases of development through the lifecycle of a project.
• Leads meetings to translate high level business requirements into functional specification and manages the specification changes.
• Supports other departments, divisions, and organizations as a liaison to IT.
• Contributes to all phases of system development through the analysis of business requirements, business design, business development, client training, data conversion, testing and maintenance.
• Prepares reports, process flow diagrams, and recommendations for business solutions while ensuring conformity with other business areas.

• Design solutions and processes for the Master Data Management Applications.
• Understanding broader business drivers to map business needs to process & functional solution design.
• Build proof-of-concept (POC) for potential new solutions and technologies.
• Work closely with Data stewards, sales, marketing, customer support & other operations teams that work on Master data domains and then partner closely with IT development team for creation of Business and Functional requirements document.
• Act as liaison between the Project Manager and project team to define business requirements, build test scenarios and establish a business requirements traceability matrix. 
• Facilitate requirements gathering and process mapping workshop.
• Perform gap analysis between business requirements and MDM tool capabilities and participate in end-to-end implementation planning including issue management and change management.
• Work on Data Profiling, Data Analysis and Data Validation activities.
• Writing and executing QA and SIT test cases.
• Manage UAT with end users including coordination and user acceptance sign off.
• Preparation of user documentation and training documentation as necessary.
• Leverage business knowledge and expertise to drive business process improvements.

• University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Experience managing and assisting as a lead on teams for IT projects &  programs.
• 7+ years of experience in a successful and professional business/systems analysis or data analyst roles. 
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in Master data management, Data Quality, CRM domains. 
• Strong business acumen and prior experience working with at least one MDM domain (Customer, Product, Location, Supplier etc.) 
• Highly organized. Ability to coordinate effectively across cross-functional teams. 
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail. 
• Ability to work cross functionally with other departments to achieve goals. 
• Experience working with Third party data providers like D&B, AddressDoctor a plus 
• Strong SQL skills with the ability to perform effective querying involving multiple tables and subqueries. 
• Should be Detailed Oriented in terms of reviewing & analyzing the data.

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