Sr Analyst, Business Systems

Seneca Resources•Houston, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Business Systems Analyst leads business system initiatives across the full project lifecycle, from needs assessment and solution evaluation through implementation, deployment, adoption, stabilization, and transition to ongoing support. The role serves as a bridge among business stakeholders, technical resources, software vendors, and governance functions. It coordinates project planning, requirements, process design, testing, training, risk management, vendor delivery, and go-live readiness while ensuring required IT, Cybersecurity, Legal, Procurement, data, contractual, and internal control reviews are identified, completed, and documented. As an integral member of the Accounting team, the Senior Business Systems Analyst partners with business leaders and end users, analyzes and improves processes, manages requirements and scope, evaluates software and vendors, and leads assigned implementations. The role coordinates governance and control reviews, testing and data validation, vendor delivery, stakeholder communications, change management, training, adoption, and post-implementation improvement. It also supports department planning, project prioritization, portfolio reporting, and special initiatives, and complies with Seneca’s EHSQ policies, standards, and procedures while participating in EHSQ programs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.
Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience in business systems analysis, software implementation, technology project management, business process improvement, enterprise applications, or business transformation.
Demonstrated experience leading or holding a significant leadership role in system implementations from planning through deployment.
Experience gathering and managing requirements, developing project plans, coordinating cross-functional work, and working with business stakeholders, technical resources, and third-party vendors.
Strong analytical, critical-thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, facilitation, presentation, and written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, communicate with technical and nontechnical audiences, influence without formal authority, manage risks and issues, and work independently with appropriate leadership engagement.
Proficiency with standard productivity, documentation, presentation, spreadsheet, and project-tracking tools.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise, cloud-based, or SaaS implementations; structured vendor selection; business cases and scoring models; process analysis; user acceptance testing; data conversion; reporting; interfaces; or integrations.
Experience in a regulated, audit-sensitive, governance-focused, or controls-oriented environment and coordinating with IT, Legal, Cybersecurity, Procurement, Finance, or audit functions.
Experience managing vendor statements of work, deliverables, milestones, and commitments; developing training or change plans; and using Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, or hybrid delivery methods.
Familiarity with access and role design, approval workflows, audit trails, change controls, data retention, and segregation of duties.
Energy-industry or Quorum experience is beneficial but not required.
Relevant certifications such as PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, CAPM, Agile/Scrum, Lean/Six Sigma, or change management are beneficial but do not substitute for relevant experience, judgment, and stakeholder leadership.

Responsibilities

Partner with leaders, subject matter experts, and end users to understand objectives, pain points, risks, dependencies, and desired outcomes.
Analyze current-state processes, facilitate future-state design, and recommend standardization, simplification, automation, and stronger controls.
Plan and facilitate discovery sessions and workshops; gather, analyze, prioritize, validate, and document business, functional, reporting, data, integration, security, compliance, and control requirements.
Maintain traceability from business objectives through solution design, testing, and delivery, and manage requirement and scope changes.
Lead structured evaluations of software, implementation partners, and technology solutions; develop evaluation plans, vendor questionnaires, demonstration scripts, scoring models, and selection criteria.
Assess solution fit, value, cost, complexity, user experience, reporting, data, integrations, security, controls, scalability, support, contractual considerations, and maintainability; document findings, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
Lead assigned initiatives from initiation through deployment and stabilization; establish scope, objectives, deliverables, roles, milestones, dependencies, success measures, schedules, risk and issue logs, decision records, testing plans, communications, cutover activities, and transition-to-support plans.
Monitor project progress, manage scope, resolve or escalate issues, coordinate readiness reviews, and conduct post-implementation reviews.
Identify required reviews, approvals, policies, standards, and controls, and coordinate with IT, Cybersecurity, Legal, Procurement, Finance, data governance, risk, internal controls, records management, and audit.
Document approvals, decisions, access considerations, roles, workflows, retention, integrations, segregation-of-duties risks, exceptions, and unresolved concerns.
Develop or coordinate risk-based testing across requirements, business processes, integrations, reports, data, security roles, workflows, controls, and exceptions; coordinate test scenarios, defect resolution, retesting, acceptance, and signoff.
Identify conversion, migration, interface, reconciliation, reporting, data ownership, and quality requirements and coordinate business validation.
Serve as a primary business and project contact for vendors, consultants, and implementation partners; establish expectations for responsibilities, deliverables, milestones, documentation, issue resolution, quality, and communication.
Review vendor deliverables, manage risks and delays, support statement-of-work review, escalate material concerns, and promote knowledge transfer.
Build cross-functional relationships and facilitate discussions that produce clear decisions, owners, and next steps; translate technical information into business terms and business needs into system requirements.
Provide concise updates on project health, milestones, decisions, risks, issues, scope, schedule, and resource needs, and influence outcomes without formal authority.
Assess organizational impacts and stakeholder needs; coordinate communications, training, procedures, job aids, support materials, feedback channels, adoption monitoring, and transition activities.
Promote sustainable solution ownership after implementation.
Prioritize enhancements based on value, risk, effort, dependencies, and strategic alignment; compare outcomes with approved objectives and success measures.
Develop reusable templates, standards, methods, and governance practices, and stay informed about relevant technologies and implementation practices.
Support department planning, project prioritization, portfolio reporting, and special initiatives involving systems, processes, controls, or organizational change.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Comply with Seneca’s EHSQ policies, standards, and procedures and demonstrate active and regular involvement in EHSQ programs.