Senior Business Analyst, NAM Program Delivery

Louis Dreyfus Company • Kansas City, MO

3h

About The Position

This position works within a larger Project Team focusing on replacing and enhancing business-critical systems and primary business processes. This position collaborates heavily with business stakeholders, IT teams, and technology partners to understand, document, validate, test, and train on business process transformation as well as build functional requirements in support of custom software development for a global merchandiser and processor of agricultural goods.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited 4-year college or university, and preferably a master’s degree in business or computer science.
• 5+ (plus) years of strong operational experience in financial or trading systems and a successful history of project plan completion
• Experience analyzing, implementing and supporting enterprise reporting architectures and related technologies
• Experience in participating in cross-functional project teams environment; ability to perform in various roles from individual contributor to a leadership role; ability to contribute to planning, organization and managing of project teams using a structured delivery methodology
• Experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other business organizations; successful experience in working with diverse groups of people in a problem-solving environment
• Works effectively in a multicultural project team with stakeholders around the globe, and manages multiple concurrent requirements and development streams
• Understanding of capabilities, features and limitations of system development tools
• Thorough understanding of planning, analysis and testing techniques required to support such systems
• Extensive knowledge/ experience in functional business areas, such as finance, accounting, information technology and trading operations
• Ability to act in a consultative role to understand functional business processes, related information technology needs and to develop solutions and delivery proposals
• Ability to effectively manage multiple assignments and priorities
• History of applying varied approaches to solve complex business support challenges of significance to the organization
• Advanced knowledge of standard business tools such as MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with Agile project methodologies

Nice To Haves

• Experience with functional and technical aspects of major enterprise business systems and related technologies

Responsibilities

• Researches, identifies, and documents current business process functions (AS IS) and partners with business stakeholders to facilitate improvement and transformation of business processes (TO BE) with an end goal of implementing a modern software platform supporting key business processes
• Partners with business unit personnel at multiple locations to understand business needs and translate those needs into detailed business process documentation, serving as a baseline for the creation of functional requirements for software development
• Collaborates closely with IT teams and technology partners to refine and validate functional requirements, and transition them into technical requirements for software development
• Documents, in partnership with business stakeholders, acceptance criteria and test cases for each requirement
• Tests the delivered developments to ensure each requirement aligns with the requested capabilities and successfully passes the acceptance criteria or provides feedback on why the tests failed
• Creates regression testing documentation and shares system processes with QA teams to enable development of automated regression tests
• Gains a robust understanding of company business concepts and processes to support efficient development of functional and system requirements
• Builds, organizes, and maintains logical linking of functional requirements as mapped to business processes
• Sets up systems with proper master data and configurations to enable system capabilities as needed to run the business
• Collaborates with business process teams to translate developed functionality into real-world application through training and documentation
• Demonstrates how new functionality works to a global audience, soliciting feedback and incorporating feedback into future demos and closing any open points raised
• Facilitates user acceptance testing, documenting the findings and creating new requirements and/or bugs based on the findings
• Assist technical teams with data migration activities from legacy systems to target systems
• Supports change management activities to ensure a proper transition from building solutions to running solutions ensuring a smooth transition for our end users and over to our Live Markets DT&A team
• Analyzes and troubleshoots system issues to determine the root cause and provide input into the solution to address the issue
• Supports and coaches junior Business Analysts

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental and vision care coverage, flexible spending account plans, employee assistance program, life insurance and disability coverage
• 401k with Company Match
• Family Friendly Benefits including childbirth and parental leave, fertility and family building benefits
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays
• Flexible work available (not applicable to all roles)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level