JOB SUMMARY
The Business Systems Analyst II is an integral member of the Reliance Technology Solutions (RTS) Product Management ERP team and is tasked with working with Business Stakeholders to understand the business processes and business requirements for ERP implementations. Additionally, the Business Systems Analyst II plays a leadership role in the planning/analysis, testing and implementation phases of ERP/Application projects, working closely with business stakeholders and the entire team to ensure project success.
**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Requirements Elicitation - Ability to identify a desired future state that addresses a business problem.
Effectively use interviewing skills to elicit, identify, and document business requirements
Precisely and consistently captures business problem
Prioritize requirements to identify the most critical needs
Uncover needs and value drivers that business partners and end users would not be able to articulate on their own
Articulate and incorporates extensive business knowledge into requirements
Obtain agreement and confirms understanding by clearly interpreting business requirements to business stakeholder
Requirements Management and Analysis - Ability to define, document and manage business requirements to the smallest set that will provide the biggest impact in advancing business objectives.
Accurately translates business requirements into functionality
Manage and Prioritizes business requirements based on business needs
Understand business process complexity
Assess the risks of various solutions looking across multiple applications
Document and contribute to the "to be" business process state considering multiple factors
Creating Compelling Business Case - Ability to measure and communicate proposed project benefits.
Clearly articulate the impact of business problems and benefits using business language.
Understand the organizations economic and revenue drivers
Understand industry-specific trends that impact the organization
Quickly adapt to changes in business strategy
Help business partners communicate solution value to key stakeholders
Providing Accurate Project Effort Estimates - Ability to quantify and meet individual and project phase level efforts.
Adhere to RTS project methodology throughout project lifecycle
Effectively engage stakeholders in the project estimation process
Manage ambiguity and creates accurate project effort estimates for their assigned tasks
Understand, consider and communicate interdependencies for project estimates
Design for Usability - Ability to translate business requirements into business solutions for end-user adoption and productivity improvement.
Incorporate usability and User Interface (UI) efficiencies into business solutions
Understand the business data needs as it relates to a potential solution
Effectively convey the business preferences and functional design to the technical teams
Ensure end-to-end service performance from the end users perspective
Incorporate knowledge of UI best practices in functional design
Functional Design - Ability to translate business requirements to functional designs using analysis and design techniques.
Understand functional design specifications
Provide the link between the business and technical views of the system
Can listen to and understand technological constraints
Clarify the business rationale of a solution concept
Create functional design specifications for low to high complexity solutions
Map business requirements to functional specifications ensuring traceability
Anticipate weaknesses in the design solution to ensure risk is mitigated
Understand technical design specifications and ensures that the technical solution(s) developed will satisfy the needs of the business
Capitalize on reusability while minimizing rework by incorporating prior resolved solutions
Consider solution interdependencies in functional design
Consider third party application fe tures and upgrades prior to designing in-house solution
Develop solutions for system needs that business partners would not be able to articulate on their own
Adherence to Standards - Ability to create solutions that adhere to and incorporate RTS standards.
Apply and use information and technology standards in design of solution
Obtain key inputs from Enterprise Architecture groups to ensure compliance and exception management
Adhere to project management methodology
Can identify commonalities and suggest a consistent approach across projects
Ensure that business and non-business requirements have been met through testing and validation
Develop effective use cases to test solution to business requirements
Document validation results are as expected
Develop reusable test case suite
Execute functional testing, validation, system and integration testing, and validation of proposed solution
Work with stakeholders on evaluating coverage of test cases
User Acceptance Testing - Collaborates with stakeholder in testing for acceptance of end user business solution.
Build user acceptance test cases
Coordinate testing with end user
Provide clarification on basic questions of solution testing
Train end-users o
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