Senior Business Analyst, ERP

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Job description

About the Position

This position is the functional subject matter expert for the JD Edwards (JDE) financial, manufacturing, distribution applications. Consequently, this position requires a detailed understanding of the features and functionality of the JD Edwards applications and their integrations to other modules or applications. You will be responsible for supporting the JDE applications as well as leading business process improvements for various functional processes supported by JD Edwards. You will be required to work within IT as well as across the functional business groups in the definition of requirements, solution design, configuration, and implementation. This position is responsible for providing business analysis, support for existing applications, and assistance to business users in identifying and evaluating new systems, procedures, and computer-based tools. Duties may include various aspects of project management as well as business analysis, systems analysis, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of systems used to support business processes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

Document work procedures and business prerequisites
Assist peers and others in various activities, including consults with internal business users to identify information and process needs, and implementing solutions.
Evaluate Business Partner requirement issues and procedures to develop a solution or improve on a system
Consult with Business Partners on how to efficiently utilize technology
Participate in planning of business, evaluation and analysis of business risks and needs.
Write out thorough design requirements and conduct specifications evaluation.
Act as a connection between internal and external technology personnel.
Lead user acceptance testing such as organizing user testing sessions, creating detailed test plans and test cases, assess and document reports; settle issues and ascertain all correlated procedures, and ensure documentation is updated.
Actively participate and assist in fundamental requests to capture business partner needs.
Formulates requirement definition, documentation, and complicated functional requirements to acquire business necessities.
Interacts with vendors that may provide consulting, training, and support of enterprise applications.
Maintains general understanding of Continental Mills computer systems.
Responsible for evaluating and assessing proposals generated to solve complex operational issues
Lead the full span of the SDLC from detailed business analysis, designing user interface design, writing business and technical documents
Evaluate process workflows for opportunities, reflecting interactions between all software within IT identifying how information is processed and what forms of communications are used.
Identifies metrics and gathers results to measure outcomes (operations and projects)

Position Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals qualified with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Strong written, oral, and facilitation skills.
Excellent listener.
Conveys information in understandable terms at all levels of the organization.
Strong analytically.
Strong technical skills in information systems.
Ability and willingness to share information with team.
Utilizing problem solving skills, work to balance service and costs for the entire business while collaborating with business users to develop the best solutions.
Experience with systems and processes preferred.
High integrity and honesty, promoting trust in all actions.
Creative and change oriented.
High energy, assertive, energetic, and a self-starter.
Ability to travel up to 10% of the time and work a flexible work schedule.
Adaptable, as well as skills in dealing with uncertainties
Works well in a team environment

Education and/or Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Business or Information Systems - related area or equivalent combined experience.
5-8 years' work experience in business/systems analysis and support of enterprise-wide application systems preferred.
6+ years' experience with JDEdwards Enterprise One, with solid understanding on the Manufacturing/Procurement modules preferred

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone along with reaching. Specific vision abilities include close vision requirements due to computer work. Moderate noise, ability to work in a confined area, and ability to sit at a computer for an extended period of time are also included.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. This position description is designed to outline primary duties, qualifications and job scope, but not limit our employees nor the organization to just the work identified. It is our expectation that each employee will offer his/her services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of the company.

The policy of Continental Mills, Inc. is to hire, train, and promote all persons in all job groups in accordance with law, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital or military status, national origin, gender identity, the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability, genetic information, or any other status or characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law.