Business Systems Analyst, IT Corporate Functions

Marathon Petroleum Corporation • Findlay, OH

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About The Position

At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment. Position Summary: This position offers an excellent opportunity to collaborate with business partners, product/platform owners, and subject matter experts to solve complex business problems and deliver value to MPC. This role is vital to the support, development and enhancement of Finance systems and processes. It will also ensure solutions are reliable, secure, and aligned with enterprise technologies. Responsibilities include driving critical projects, delivering value-added enhancements, gathering, and documenting business requirements, and coordinating user testing. The role may involve process documentation, system configuration & integrations, and report design. A major opportunity with this role is learning and supporting the functionality of applications across the corporate functions organization to allow for effective planning and delivery of future value-add projects. This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent experience required.
• Two (2) or more years of relevant experience required
• Agile Methodologies – Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project
• Analytical Thinking - Strong problem-solving skills to identify architectural challenges, analyze requirements, evaluate options, and propose effective solutions.
• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Business Analysis - Analyzing current business state within the context of future business state expectations and determining whether new business strategies are needed to address existing issues or meet new needs. Estimating the level of effort to enhance or expand current business strategies.
• Business Partner Relations - The process of acting as a trusted advisor and building strong relationships with colleagues and the business to drive business performance.
• Business Process Modeling & Redesign - Execution of key business process with the objective of achieving a quantum jump in performance measures such as return on investment (ROI), cost reduction, and quality of service.
• Change Management – The process of controlled identification, planning and implementation of required initiatives to prepare, support and help individuals, teams and organizations to navigate through change.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• Incident Management – Ensuring that any incidents affecting processes and performances of relevant technology services or systems are managed appropriately to mitigate risk and minimize disruption.
• Quality Assurance (QA) – The process to ensure organizational activities are designed to ensure that an organization is providing the best possible product or service to customers.
• Requirements Management - The process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change while also communicating to relevant stakeholders.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - A process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high quality softwares.
• Specifications Development - Understanding the context, stakeholders and requirements or features of a product or application and detailing the specifications around them.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in procure to pay or order to cash processes preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manages the definition of business processes in order to measure, analyze, improve and control the process being reviewed.
• Communicates effectively with stakeholders, aligning the understanding of requirements, and identifying cross functional changes/impacts of the specifications for solution delivery.
• Develops recommendations for appropriate systems, alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.
• Investigates business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning; apply continuous iterative processes.
• Performs cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
• Supports implementation of ways to improve working processes in the team.
• Supports monitoring the execution of IT service management practices around incident, Change, Problem and Solution Development Lifecycle (SDLC) delivery methodologies for improvement and collaboration, including more advanced configuration tasks.
• Coordinates test case development, execution and support of strategy creation for technology delivery.
• Plans, executes, and documents user stories, user feedback to support the development of prototypes and wireframes.
• Stays up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies, recommending innovative solutions to business partners and ensuring alignment on future roadmap opportunities.

Benefits

• Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement.
• Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com .
• The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees