Senior Business System Analyst
Introduction
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Your role and responsibilities
About the Job:
Red Hat Enterprise Applications team is seeking a Senior-Level IT Business System Analyst (BSA) in support of its committed spend applications. He/she will work alongside IT Developers, Business Partners, and Business Controls to ensure and document IT Processes and Procedures and support applications like, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, RevStream (Revenue Recognition), and other Financial Oracle E-Business Suite Applications. The BA will assist with supporting and coordinating IT Technology controls. Configures system settings and options; plans and executes unit, integration, and acceptance testing to meet business requirements. May lead cross-functional linked teams to address business or systems issues The BA may be responsible for creating business cases and eliciting business requirements and process maps.
Business Systems Analyst: Analyzes complex business problems to be solved with automated systems. Identifies gaps and provides technical expertise in business requirements for system functional specifications and scales new and current systems, processes and procedures in a cost-effective manner. Configures system settings and options; plans and executes unit, integration and acceptance testing to meet business requirements. Designs details of automated systems. May provide consultation to users around automated systems.
May lead cross-functional linked teams to address business or systems issues. Survey Tip: May be client-focused, working in conjunction with Professional Services and Outsourcing functions. May include company-wide, web-enabled solutions. This role may encounter confidential or sensitive customer information requiring special treatment in accordance with Red Hat policies and applicable privacy laws.
What will you do:
- Developing Business Case documents, requirements and process maps, and representing the project at required forums
- Collaborate with business customers on requirements gathering and business analysis.
- Document use cases, create physical and logical data models and build deployment plans
- Working with multiple IT teams in support of audit activities.
- Work with technical developers and database administrators on production issues and project activities.
- Represent the team in meetings with stakeholders
- Perform functional designs, standard and custom configuration, functional testing, and release support
- Interact with cross-functional teams to deliver projects within committed time frames.
- Defining the scope of an actionable project, working in tandem with both Business and IT stakeholders
- Documenting issues and providing supporting documentation to the Business System organization to illustrate current state/problems, etc.
- Conduct training sessions for end-users
- Actively question and challenge customers to understand their requirements and design optimal solutions.
- Scaled Agile Methodologies Development Process (JIRA)
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Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- 5+ years of experience delivering projects as part of cross-functional, cross departmental teams, including work with ERP systems (Oracle EBS Financials)
- Experience in creating business cases, requirements documentation, and process maps
- Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships across Operations, Sales, and IT
- Experience modeling and defining data process flows between systems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear and concise documentation
- Expertise in facilitating meetings, webinars, and conference calls
- Experience in both business operations and IT solution delivery
Preferred technical and professional experience
- 5+ years of Consulting experience
- Experience with mid-scale (<$ 2 million) software development projects
- Experience with Internal Audit, Business Controls, or IT process controls
- Experience with Agile Methodology
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- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
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