Jr. Business Analyst Jobs

As an Entry Level Business Systems Analyst you will help to ensure alignment to the enterprise goals, objectives, and center of excellence vision in terms of business process improvement. The most qualified individual will demonstrate integrity, commitment to stakeholders, and a passion for excellence. The Business Analyst role is defined as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. The business analyst understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. This position will demonstrate creative thinking and decision-making characteristics throughout their daily interaction with others. This individual will help with continuous improvement as well as ensuring successful execution of business process improvement projects.

This position reports to the Lead Business Systems Analyst.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Effectively monitor and react to requirements challenges and slippage; ensure tools, resources, and requirements contributors are available when requirements activities are scheduled; capture changes correctly and consistently.
• Gather/analyze requirements and translate them into functional specifications and system design specifications.
• Create requirements communication plan, manage requirements conflicts, determine appropriate requirements format, create a requirements package, conduct requirements presentations, conduct formal requirements reviews and obtain requirements signoffs.
• Provide subject matter expert support to assigned business functions and applications.
• Determine validity of business requests and assist in cost/benefit (Economic Value Added) analysis.
• Understand and execute Quality Assurance tasks. Design and review test plans and test cases to assure that the business risks will be mitigated by thorough testing. Help business stakeholders with user acceptance testing, defect reporting and resolution.
• Responsible for the entire life cycle for low to medium complexity projects including but not limited to creation of project plans, research and analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, training, and documentation - following IS standards and procedures.
• Identifies and recommends alternative methods and technologies to meet business needs.

JOB REQUIREMENTS/WORKING CONDITIONS

• A minimum of 1-year experience working in a consolidated ERP (Baan, e-Emphasys) environment highly desired.
• Must have the ability to lead projects in accordance with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
• Bachelor's Degree or Associates degree working toward a Bachelor's degree required.
• Must be able to travel domestically and internationally as required (minimal travel) and have current passport or the ability to acquire a passport.
• Excellent communication skills with co-workers, managers, and writing skills.