Business Analyst – Dynamics 365

The Greenbrier Companies•Lake Oswego, OR

2d•Onsite

About The Position

At Greenbrier, we do the hard work that matters. The Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) is powering the movement of products around the world as a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of freight rail transportation equipment and services. Greenbrier’s heritage of hard work and industrial innovation is celebrated at every level of our organization. We structure our business to support teams that deliver innovative solutions for our customers while positively impacting the world around us. Greenbrier’s success begins with people. We believe in supporting our global workforce through our unwavering attention to Safety, Quality, Respect for People and Customer Satisfaction. Our Inclusion, Diversity, Engagement, Access and Leadership (IDEAL) commitment is rooted in these values, which lead to a culture where employees are engaged and feel good about coming to work every day. Summary The Business Analyst for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders. This role interviews stakeholders and gathers and compiles user requirements to understand the technology solutions needed to support business objectives. The Business Analyst applies strong communication, analytical, and critical thinking skills to support effective technology decision-making. This role collaborates with a wide range of stakeholders and resources, including architects, product owners, subject matter experts, and business leaders. The Business Analyst identifies opportunities to leverage modern technologies to optimize and improve business processes.

Requirements

College diploma or university degree in an associated field or equivalent work experience.
3+ Years’ experience with Dynamics 365 or AX (Finance & Operations)
Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
Experience overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products
Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language
Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required
Clear understanding of project management practices (Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid methods)
Proof of delivering Dynamics 365 projects
Understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts
Able to exercise independent judgment and act on it
Excellent analytical, and critical thinking skills
Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
Strong customer service orientation
Experience working in a collaborative environment

Nice To Haves

Experience in finance, manufacturing, logistics or transportation is highly preferred

Responsibilities

Collaborate with other departments to identify, document, and communicate business needs and provide technical solution recommendations with the Dynamics 365 platform.
Work with project sponsors and stakeholders to determine scope for initiatives with a focus on improvements in accounting, finance, manufacturing, and automation.
Gather and analyze business processes to support specifications and requirements for solutioning.
Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
Assist in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed-upon requirements alongside the Technical Architecture Committee.
Participate in supporting purchasing efforts.
Create business cases, feasibility studies, financial analysis and other artifacts for proposed initiatives.
Document test requirements and test cases.
Contribute to training materials and training development to support adoption of new solutions.
Elicit feedback from development team on quality and thoroughness of user stories or requirements.
Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers, vendors and/or the project team and other solution providers.
Conduct peer reviews of business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.