Business Analyst

Bayside Solutions; Randleman (NC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bayside Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Business Analyst to work on medium to large scope projects, focusing on information management, relationships, development lifecycle, and project management activities.

You will gather requirements, document risks, create reports and dashboards, and collaborate with stakeholders to define release plans. Requires 3–5 years IT experience and strong MS Office skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or Computer Science, or an equivalent diploma.
• 3-5 years' experience in the IT field or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to understand and apply instructions or suggest alternate proven methods to move projects forward.
• Ability to follow established practices, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to build stable working relationships.
• Very strong understanding of productivity suite software (i.e., Microsoft Office).
• Strong analytical skills.
• Able to create simple to complex analytical solutions.
• Ability to take an abstract analytical problem and break it down into actionable tasks.

Responsibilities

• Understand business processes within the distribution center and how systems enable the business processes.
• When issues and/or outages occur, perform troubleshooting, provide support, and send communications to help resolve issues.
• Gather and document project risks and provide recommendations to project leadership or management on longer-term solutions.
• Gather and document project status updates from responsible parties and present to project leadership or management.
• Collect and consolidate data from responsible parties to be used for reporting and dashboard creation.
• Create and analyze process flow documents of diverse scope by networking with users.
• Document functional and other requirements based on customer or business partner feedback on moderately complex projects.
• Manage meetings, issue resolution, escalation, etc. for the project team during the design and build phases of moderately complex projects.
• Develop an understanding of the strengths/limitations of various tools and technologies available.
• Allocate documentation activities to members of the team and self of all test-related deliverables, including test approach, test scenarios, test cases/conditions, test scripts, and test results.
• Drive test execution throughout all phases of testing (i.e., unit, end-to-end, integration, performance, operational readiness, and user acceptance) for small to moderately complex projects.
• Suggest alternate methods of data gathering and/or data presentation.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define the release and deployment plans.
• Lead post-deployment validation as instructed by project leadership or management.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Microsoft Office

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

SQL

Project management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or Computer Science

Tools

SQL

Job description

The Business Analyst is responsible for working on projects, assignments, and problems of medium to large scope with some instruction from project or department leadership. Areas of focus include information management, relationship management, development lifecycle, technical operations, and project management activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Understand business processes within the distribution center and how systems enable the business processes.


• When issues and/or outages occur, perform troubleshooting, provide support, and send communications to help resolve issues.


• Gather and document project risks and provide recommendations to project leadership or management on longer-term solutions.


• Gather and document project status updates from responsible parties and present to project leadership or management.


• Collect and consolidate data from responsible parties to be used for reporting and dashboard creation.


• Create and analyze process flow documents of diverse scope by networking with users.


• Document functional and other requirements based on customer or business partner feedback on moderately complex projects.


• Manage meetings, issue resolution, escalation, etc. for the project team during the design and build phases of moderately complex projects.


• Develop an understanding of the strengths/limitations of various tools and technologies available.


• Allocate documentation activities to members of the team and self of all test-related deliverables, including test approach, test scenarios, test cases/conditions, test scripts, and test results.


• Drive test execution throughout all phases of testing (i.e., unit, end-to-end, integration, performance, operational readiness, and user acceptance) for small to moderately complex projects.


• Suggest alternate methods of data gathering and/or data presentation.


• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define the release and deployment plans.


• Lead post-deployment validation as instructed by project leadership or management.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with a concentration in Business, Economics, Finance, or Computer Science, or an equivalent diploma


• 3-5 years' experience in the IT field or equivalent work experience


• Ability to understand and apply instructions or suggest alternate proven methods to move projects forward


• Ability to follow established practices, policies, and procedures


• Ability to build stable working relationships


• Very strong understanding of productivity suite software (i.e., Microsoft Office)


• Strong analytical skills


• Able to create simple to complex analytical solutions


• Ability to take an abstract analytical problem and break it down into actionable tasks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Suitable level of working business knowledge


• Warehouse Management application knowledge is preferable


• SQL skills are a plus

Desired Skills and Experience

Business analysis, IT operations, distribution center operations, business process analysis, requirements gathering, functional requirements documentation, information management, stakeholder management, relationship management, project management, project risk management, project status reporting, data collection, data consolidation, dashboard creation, process flow documentation, troubleshooting, outage support, issue resolution, escalation management, meeting facilitation, systems analysis, analytical solution development, software development lifecycle, test planning, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, test execution, unit testing, end-to-end testing, integration testing, performance testing, operational readiness testing, user acceptance testing, release planning, deployment planning, post-deployment validation, data analysis, data presentation, Microsoft Office, SQL, warehouse management systems, communication, analytical thinking, problem-solving, policy and procedure compliance, cross-functional collaboration, bachelor's degree, 3-5 years of IT experience

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