Business Analyst

Purpose of Position

The Business Analyst (BA) is a technology resource acting as a liaison between technology teams and the business on medium to large IT projects. The BA is responsible for the elicitation of stakeholder business requirements, their assessment, documentation and translation to technology teams. The Business analyst serves the business working closely with technology teams to ensure that business needs are met through technical solutions. As part of a highly collaborative team, the role will interact with many technical and business resources across the enterprise. The ideal candidate is a committed, creative, self-motivated technologist who is interested in practicing his or her skills and learning new ones.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Business Relationship Managers, Finance stakeholders, Controllers, and Accounting SMEs to define business problems, objectives, and scope of ERP-related projects
• Elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements for Finance processes including GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, budgeting, and month-end close
• Document business requirements in an organized, traceable manner and translate them into system requirements
• Partner with Finance to evaluate trade-offs between business needs and ERP standard functionality, guiding toward best practices
• Support ERP implementation activities including phased delivery, data migration, testing cycles, and cutover planning
• Assist in developing future-state operating models for Finance, focusing on process simplification and automation
• Work closely with change management teams to anticipate user impacts, policy changes, and training needs to ensure adoption
• Collaborate with Finance and IT to define reporting requirements, reconciliations, and downstream impacts on reporting tools and audit compliance
• Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Support development of user acceptance and quality assurance tests for Finance processes
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Minimum Education

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience
• CBAP Certification preferred.

Minimum Experience

• 3+ years of professional experience as an IT business analyst or comparable role, on medium/large-scale software development projects
• Experience supporting core Finance functions (GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, budgeting, month-end close)
• Exposure to at least one ERP implementation or major module rollout (SAP experience is a bonus; S/4 HANA is highly desirable)

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Solid experience in business analysis planning and monitoring, elicitation, requirements analysis, design definition and solution evaluation
• Strong facilitation, critical / analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Strong requirements modeling & process mapping skills
• Experience with both traditional Waterfall and Agile / Lean methodologies
• Strong understanding of Finance processes and ERP systems
• Ability to distinguish true business needs from legacy workarounds and guide toward standard ERP capabilities
• Excellent communication skills to partner with Finance leaders and technical teams
• Awareness of data and reporting requirements, reconciliations, and audit impacts
• Excellent MS-Excel, SQL and Visio skills. TFS experience preferred
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• Ability to build strong partnerships and influence decision makers as well as process and technology adoption
• Proactively understand functional business areas and how they interact/overlap with each other
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
• Strong Business Acumen
• Experience in defining and maturing business capability road maps

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and/or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and communicate. The employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to view monitors, technical documents, and reference material. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.