Supply Chain Business Analyst Location:Columbus, OH
, OH
100,000 - 200,000
Job Description:
Role:Supply Chain Business Analyst Location:Columbus, OH
Supply Chain Business Analyst acts as a liaison between supply chain and technical teams responsible for developing business requirements, leading applications requirements sessions, developing requirements documentation, use cases, end-user documentation, developing test plans, test execution, and coordinating production roll-out activities.
- Builds relationships with end users, technical staff and management
- Demonstrates an aptitude for understanding the supply chain environment and translating supply chain business requirements to technical solutions by developing solutions to meet customer requirements and deliver value
- Collaborates with the various supply chain departments & locations , demonstrating the ability to articulate the functions of software and how each supports the end users
- Facilitates regular meetings with the business stakeholders in functional areas to gather and review requirements
- Defines, design, and document business flows, processes and technology road maps
- Continuously works to improve and simplify the processes and functionality related to applications
- Defines and articulates business rules required for data accuracy and consistency
- Identifies and resolves data quality issues
- Defines requirements traceability to test case execution
- Must demonstrate ability to handle multiple tasks with high attention to detail, as well as perform duties under minimal supervision
- Ensures the satisfactory completion of critical work and/or projects
- Regularly provides updates and reports on issues, projects and plans
- Ensures that system proposals are fully analyzed and evaluated
- Creates processes to support application deployment
- Exercises a high degree of judgment in matters related to corporate compliance and risk mitigation
Qualifications:
- Bachelorâ??s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ yearsâ?? experience in business process and requirements documentation, analysis, design, system construction, testing, training, communication planning and deployment
- 3+ years, experience in systems analysis and design, programming, testing and software implementation
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, the ability to develop and maintain business/technical documentation, and have strong organizational and interpersonal skills
- Must have experience facilitating Requirements Discovery and JAD sessions with end users
- Must have strong experience with requirement elicitation techniques, writing use cases and business process modeling
- Must be proficient in writing and executing test cases
- Proficiency with MSOffice Suite of products, SharePoint, Visio and Microsoft Project is highly desirable
- Experience in developing reports, dashboards and scorecards using SAP Business Objects is required
- Strong analytical, Risk analysis and Problem-solving skills
- Generate SDLC business validation documentation (i.e. User Requirements Specifications, Functional specifications) including technical documentation such as Design specification, Configuration specifications, etc.
- Working knowledge of organizational change management concepts preferred
- Experience with configuration management tool and requirement gathering tools is a plus.
- CPG industry experience desirable
- SAP S4/HANA experience preferred