Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner between the business community and IT development teams to resolve functional and technical issues related to business applications, to troubleshoot data or transaction issues, and to review opportunities to leverage new functionality
• Drive efficiency and operational improvement through business process definition, system alignment, and optimization of standard business application functionality.
• Identify gaps between the current deployment of applications and future requirements that have evolved due to organizational growth, changes, or strategy. Translate business requirements into system definitions and solutions.
• Lead cross-functional efforts to address business process or systems issues
• Analyze requests or requirements for application patches or upgrades to determine impact to business and integrated systems
• Comprehensive project management of new business application initiatives, performing requirements gathering, development effort estimates, resource management, gap analysis, implementation configuration, scope control, testing, training and end-user support, according to project methodology
• Work with business community to document functional test scenarios, test plans, and end-user acceptance testing criteria



• Participate in technical design sessions, working with technical resources, to provide insight during solution development
• Identify and communicate project risks and recommend solutions
• Designing, interpreting, or using complex logical data and object models to guide technical design decisions and overall business applications strategy
• Provide support during period close and other major financial milestones of the company
• Provide ad hoc data queries or reports to the business for analysis (using TOAD, Hyperion, or other query tools)
• Promote use and acceptance of project methodology and documentation standards

Qualifications Requirements

• Deep business applications experience (including Oracle Financials, Purchasing, Inventory, BOM, and Order Management)
• Strong financial accounting knowledge and industry experience
• Full analytical capability based on understanding of technical architecture and query tools
• Exceptional leadership, written and oral communication, and meeting facilitation skills
• Experience in software implementations, requirements gathering, systems analysis, and functional design
• Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical staff to convey complex ideas both verbally and in written form
• Ability to quickly grasp concepts relating to customizations that have been designed and developed.
• Ability to translate business requirements into high-level and detailed functional specifications.
• Exposure to various project management methodologies and their application to cross-functional project work.
• Demonstrated success in leading a team, with both functional and technical resources, to address cross-functional issues
• CPA or related background a plus