Job Summary

The Business Systems Analyst II is an integral member of the Information Technology Business Intelligence (BI) team and is tasked with working with Business Stakeholders to gather and document business requirements for BI and reporting solutions.  Business Systems Analyst II is required to translate medium to highly complex business requirements through analysis and design into functional solutions.  The Business Systems Analyst II plays a lead role in the planning/analysis, design, development and testing phases of BI projects.  In this role, the Business Systems Analyst II will focus on satisfying reporting requirements, project activities, working closely with business stakeholders and the entire project team to ensure project success.

Physical Requirements

Stand or Sit(Stationary position), Walk(Move, Traverse), Use hand/fingers to handle or feel (Operate, Activate, Use, Prepare, Inspect, Place, Detect, Position), Talk/hear(Communicate, Detect, Converse with, Discern, Convey, Express oneself, Exchange information), See (Detect, Determine, Perceive, Identify, Recognize, Judge, Observe, Inspect, Estimate, Assess), Repetitive Motion, Reaching
Function in the Job

Sedentary Work- Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Job Function

Requirements Elicitation - Ability to identify a desired future state that addresses a business problem.

• Effectively use interviewing skills to elicit, identify, and document business requirements
• Precisely and consistently captures business problem
• Prioritize requirements to identify the most critical needs
• Uncover needs and value drivers that business partners and end users would not be able to articulate on their own
• Articulate and incorporates extensive business knowledge into requirements
• Obtain agreement and confirms understanding by clearly interpreting business requirements to business stakeholder
• Drive consensus for a desired future state to meet the business problem and enterprise objectives
• Influence stakeholders by clearly interpreting the future “to be” state

 

Requirements Management and Analysis - Ability to define, document and manage business requirements to the smallest set that will provide the biggest impact in advancing business objectives.

• Accurately translates business requirements into functionality
• Manage and Prioritizes business requirements based on business needs
• Understand business process complexity
• Assesses the risks of various solutions looking across multiple applications
• Document and contribute to the "to be" business process state considering multiple factors
• Recommend changes to multiple business processes and communicates the changes and the "to be" state in business terms to business partners
• Influence business partner requirements in support of enterprise objectives
• Recognize the implications of business strategy changes

 

Creating Compelling Business Case - Ability to measure and communicate proposed project benefits.

• Clearly articulate the impact of business problems and benefits using business language.
• Understand the organization’s economic and revenue drivers
• Understand industry-specific trends that impact the organization
• Quickly adapt to changes in business strategy
• Help business partners communicate solution value to key stakeholders

 

Providing Accurate Project Effort Estimates - Ability to quantify and meet individual and project phase level efforts.

• Adhere to RTS project methodology throughout project lifecycle
• Effectively engage stakeholders in the project estimation process
• Manage ambiguity and creates accurate project effort estimates for their assigned tasks
• Understand, consider and communicate interdependencies for project estimates
• Accurately identifies project-specific risks through the software development lifecycle

 

Design for Usability - Ability to translate business requirements into business solutions for end-user adoption and productivity improvement.

• Incorporate usability and User Interface (UI) efficiencies into business solutions
• Understand the business data needs as it relates to a potential solution
• Effectively convey the business preferences and functional design to the technical teams
• Ensure end-to-end service performance from the end user’s perspective
• Incorporate knowledge of UI best practices in functional design
• Ensure compliance to RTS UI standards

 

Functional Design - Ability to translate business requirements to functional designs using analysis and design techniques.

• Understand functional design specifications
• Provide the link between the business and technical views of the system
• Can listen to and understand technological constraints
• Clarify the business rationale of a solution concept
• Create functional design specifications for low to high complexity solutions
• Map business requirements to functional specifications ensuring traceability
• Anticipate weaknesses in the design solution to ensure risk is mitigated
• Understand technical design specifications and ensures that the technical solution(s) developed will satisfy the needs of the business
• Capitalize on reusability while minimizing rework by incorporating prior resolved solutions
• Consider solution interdependencies in functional design
• Consider third party application features and upgrades prior to designing in-house solution
• Develop solutions for system needs that business partners would not be able to articulate on their own
• Ensure reusability while minimizing rework by incorporating prior resolved solutions

 

Adherence to Standards - Ability to create solutions that adhere to and incorporate RTS standards.

• Apply and use information and technology standards in design of solution
• Obtain key inputs from Enterprise Architecture groups to ensure compliance and exception management
• Adhere to project management methodology
• Can identify commonalities and suggest a consistent approach across projects
• Identify opportunities for creating reusable enterprise services

 

Business Requirements Testing and Validation - Managing traceability of business requirements through testing and validation process.

• Ensure that business and non-business requirements have been met through testing and validation
• Develop effective use cases to test solution to business requirements
• Document validation results are as expected
• Develop reusable test case suite
• Execute functional testing, validation, system and integration testing, and validation of proposed solution
• Work with stakeholders on evaluating coverage of test cases
• Ensure the coverage is appropriate for the business solution
• Facilitate and coordinate end-to-end system integration of proposed solution

 

User Acceptance Testing - Collaborates with stakeholder in testing for acceptance of end user business solution.

• Build user acceptance test cases
• Coordinate testing with end user
• Provide clarification on basic questions of solution testing
• Train end-users on business solution
• Incorporate customer feedback into delivery of service to provide the best experience possible for the customer
• Monitor testing of business solution
• Quickly and effectively solves customer problems
• Facilitate end-user adoption of business solutions
• Validate testing results are as expected and obtains sign-off

 

Business Relationship Management - Ability to engage business sponsors and contribute to their targeted business outcomes.

• Proactively resolve customers’ satisfaction issues.
• Clearly articulate the role of technology in terms easily understood by business constituencies
• Help align customer expectations for project delivery (e.g. scope, schedule, budget, and outcome)
• Effectively navigate conflict between multiple business partners
• Adjust engagement to match customer preferences

 

 

Supplemental Duties

• Pursues training and development opportunities; Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills.
• Assist personnel in other departments to resolve technical and/or application issues.
• Other duties as requested

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information science, Business management or equivalent work experience in a related field required
• 5+ years of Business Systems Analysis experience required
• 5+ years of working Knowledge of BI tools, Platforms and trends required
• 3+ years of practical experience utilizing relational databases, query language sql, in one or more of the following is required:
  • Data analysis
  • Data structures
  • Programming/Report development
  • Requirements analysis
• 1+ years of experience with Power BI required
• 1+ years of Metals industry experience preferred
• Extensive experience with Oracle, SQL based database systems required
• Experience with end-to-end ERP system preferably Microsoft Dynamics AX a plus
• Ability to derive insights from data as well as experience working with many disparate data sets required.
• Ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing, at all levels including customers, vendors, peers, business stakeholders and management required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office products required
• Proficiency with some collaboration tools like SharePoint and Box
• Capable of learning new systems and creating/implementing new system functionality
• Possesses advanced knowledge of HTML and XML
• Understands advanced Internet and client/server architectures
• Must be self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision and as part of a team
• Detail oriented with excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Excellent customer service skills

Compensation Range

The anticipated compensation for this position is USD $107,897.00/Yr. - USD $130,205.00/Yr. depending on experience, qualifications, and location.