Senior Business Systems Analyst, RPT Application Management

CHS, Inc.•McPherson, KS

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture. CHS has an exciting opportunity in our Information Technology group. We are looking for a Senior Business Systems Analyst to provide support for our Energy Refineries, Pipelines and Terminals (RPT) business. You must have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, be detail oriented, able to work in a team environment and independently, and have the ability to solve complex problems. To be considered for this position, qualified candidates must currently reside in the McPherson/Wichita, KS metro area in order to work a hybrid structure (3-days per week) at the CHS McPherson Refinery offices.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field (or equivalent years of training, work experience and education)
4+ years of Information Technology and IT Business Systems Analysis experience to include the following:
Requirements definition
Business process definition
Strong documentation
Development and support of integrated business applications
Implementation and support of applications
End-to-end IT coordination and project support experience

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Grain, Energy or Agronomy business applications
General knowledge of system development methodologies
Knowledge of importing data for use in report software, spreadsheets, graphs, and flow charts
Experience with Microsoft development platforms including DevOps
Understanding of the organization's goals and objectives and how technology solutions impact the organization
Business Intelligence and Power Platform experience
Experience working with GIS, COTS and EH&S applications
Business Analysis and/or Project Management certification

Responsibilities

Understand industry issues and trends, and present technical solutions that provide value to our business partners.
Analyze business strategy and user needs, document specifications, and translate business objectives into proper system requirement specifications.
Guide business customers through business case development for new applications/functionality, including cost / benefit analysis and risk / impact analysis.
Deliver value through realization of benefits, avoidance of cost, identify new opportunities and modernizing the organization.
Proactively maintain an understanding of the business processes.
Focus on continuous improvement for both the business process and the underlying technologies and system support.
Gather requirements into user stories to engage with teams for development, QA and implementation.
Coordinate system development, QA and user acceptance testing of projects.
Support, test, and enhance moderately complex information systems and develop adequate error management functionality within assigned applications.
Provide new user training on supported applications as requested.
Provide overall application support and ownership for the applications in the business portfolio.
Provide end-to-end IT coordination for all IT related activities.
Support activities for assigned applications and assure secondary resources are defined and are well trained to support the application.
Minimize application support load by refining error management and moving initial triage to the first level support staff.
Work closely with all IT organizations and drive projects to successful completion.
Work closely with other Business Units to identify and deliver Enterprise value.
Perform other responsibilities as needed or assigned.