Business Systems Analyst - ERP/MES

Nidec•Saint Louis, MO

About The Position

The Business Systems Analyst is an intermediate-level IT role responsible for independently supporting business applications, performing functional analysis, and contributing to system enhancements. The role requires applied systems knowledge, analytical judgment, and effective collaboration across business and technical teams. Success is measured by system reliability, quality of analysis, issue-resolution effectiveness, and contribution to continuous improvement. The analyst supports Oracle EBS and manufacturing systems, including MES, SCADA, HMI, machine connectivity, data collection, labeling, quality, and other plant-floor applications. The position partners with Operations, Engineering, Operational Technology, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and vendors to support integrations, troubleshoot disruptions, coordinate testing and deployments, and standardize systems across sites while minimizing production impact. The role also supports reporting, solution delivery, release management, data quality, operational support, documentation, and collaboration across locations and functions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Three or more years supporting Oracle EBS, ERP, MES, or plant-floor applications in a manufacturing environment.
Functional knowledge of Oracle EBS manufacturing and supply-chain modules, including Inventory, Bills of Material, Work in Process, Cost Management, Quality, Order Management, or Procurement.
Experience with manufacturing processes, shop-floor systems, and production data such as orders, routings, material, labor, inventory, cost, and quality.
Experience supporting Oracle EBS integrations through APIs, middleware, EDI, database, or file-based interfaces.
Ability to gather requirements, map processes, prepare specifications, coordinate testing, and support deployments with minimal production disruption.
Working knowledge of SQL or reporting tools for troubleshooting, validation, reconciliation, and root-cause analysis.
Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of traceability, serialization, nonconformance, product genealogy, OEE, and plant performance metrics.
Experience with Oracle BI Publisher, Power BI, OTBI, data warehouses, or similar analytics tools.
Familiarity with OT/IT controls, cybersecurity, data governance, change control, disaster recovery, and SOX requirements.
Experience with manufacturing-system implementations, upgrades, site rollouts, or process standardization.

Responsibilities

Engage stakeholders to understand objectives, document current- and future-state processes, elicit and prioritize requirements, identify gaps, and define acceptance criteria.
Provide functional support for applicable Oracle EBS modules, including issue triage, root-cause analysis, configuration assessment, testing, documentation, and user guidance.
Support integrated manufacturing processes, including order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-produce, inventory management, cost accounting, record-to-report, and quality management.
Support the functional operation and lifecycle of MES, SCADA, HMI, machine connectivity, data collection, labeling, quality, and other plant-floor applications.
Partner with Operations, Engineering, Operational Technology, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and vendors to integrate plant-floor systems with Oracle EBS and related platforms; define data flows; monitor interfaces; reconcile production, material, labor, quality, and equipment data; troubleshoot disruptions; and coordinate testing, upgrades, deployments, and site standardization.
Analyze and support interfaces between Oracle EBS and manufacturing, warehouse, logistics, banking, customer, supplier, and other enterprise platforms; coordinate monitoring, error resolution, data reconciliation, and enhancement requirements.
Develop and support operational and management reporting using approved tools, including Oracle BI Publisher, Oracle Reports, SQL-based extracts, data warehouses, and business intelligence platforms.
Create functional specifications, process flows, data mappings, test scripts, training materials, and deployment plans; partner with technical teams and vendors through design, build, validation, release, and stabilization.
Lead or coordinate unit, system integration, regression, and user acceptance testing; document results, manage defects, and confirm business readiness.
Help maintain accurate master and transactional data, role-based access, segregation-of-duties considerations, audit evidence, and compliance with divisional and corporate policies.
Manage incidents, service requests, problems, and minor enhancements in line with service levels; communicate impact, workarounds, progress, and resolution to stakeholders.
Identify opportunities to simplify processes, standardize practices across sites, reduce manual work, strengthen controls, and improve system adoption and business performance.
Maintain process, configuration, support, and training documentation; contribute to knowledge articles; and provide knowledge transfer to users and support teams.
Work across locations, functions, cultures, and time zones while aligning divisional priorities with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and governance standards.