Business Systems Analyst- ERP (Hybrid)

AMI Metals; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical PPO/Health Plan

Dental

Vision

Paid Time Off

Life Insurance

Short & Long-Term Disability

Flexible Spending Accounts

9 Company Holidays

Employee Assistance & Wellness

Educational Assistance

Job summary

AMI Metals, Inc. is seeking an experienced Business Systems Analyst – ERP to join our IT team in Fort Worth, TX.

You will work with business owners, subject-matter experts, vendors, and technical teams to understand processes, define requirements, and support ERP deployments across finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, and logistics. The role focuses on analyzing current-state processes, designing practical future-state ERP solutions, and ensuring configurations and integrations meet business

Qualifications

• Identify business needs, outcomes, and requirements for ERP solutions.
• Document current and future-state processes across finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, and related functions.
• Translate approved requirements into functional designs for ERP configurations, workflows, and reports.
• Coordinate requirements and validation with business owners and IT teams.

Responsibilities

• Create functional design specifications for ERP configurations, workflows, reports, and security.
• Map requirements to design, ensuring traceability through development and deployment.
• Coordinate with vendors and technical teams to define feasible options and trade-offs.
• Lead requirements testing, validation, and user acceptance activities for ERP solutions.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Business process analysis

Functional design

ERP systems

Tools

SQL

Job description

Job Summary

AMI Metals, Inc. (www.amimetals.com) is globally recognized as the industry leader in supplying aircraft quality raw material products to the aerospace industry. We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance, Inc. (www.reliance.com) who is the largest metals service center company in North America and recognized as a Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies!

WHY WORK FOR AMI?

We value our employees and consider them to be our most important asset! We hire people who seek a professional, team-oriented environment which values collaboration and knowledge sharing. AMI is committed to employee safety, quality/continuous improvements, productivity and growth opportunities! Check out our reviews on and Glassdoor.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS:

We offer our employees and their dependents with a comprehensive benefits package which include:

• Medical (PPO High/Low or Health Savings Plan)
• Dental
• Vision
• Paid Time Off
• Life Insurance
• Short & Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• 9 Paid Company Holidays
• Employee Assistance & Wellness Programs
• Educational Assistance

Physical Requirements

Stand or Sit(Stationary position), Walk(Move, Traverse), Use hand/fingers to handle or feel (Operate, Activate, Use, Prepare, Inspect, Place, Detect, Position), Climb (stairs/ladders) or balance (Ascend/Descend, Work atop, Traverse), Talk/hear(Communicate, Detect, Converse with, Discern, Convey, Express oneself, Exchange information), See (Detect, Determine, Perceive, Identify, Recognize, Judge, Observe, Inspect, Estimate, Assess), Repetitive Motion

Function in the Job

Sedentary Work- Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Job Function

The Business Systems Analyst – ERP will be an integral member of the Information Technology team and will be responsible for the functional support, improvement, and continuity of current and future enterprise resource planning platforms. The individual will work with business owners, subject-matter experts, vendors, and technical teams to understand business processes, define requirements, evaluate solutions, and support testing, deployment, adoption, and ongoing operations. The role will provide functional coverage across the ERP portfolio, strengthen documentation and knowledge transfer, and support process alignment across finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, receiving, shipping, warehouse, and related operational functions. The Business Systems Analyst – ERP must ensure that functional designs, configurations, integrations, controls, test results, and supporting documentation meet approved business and technical requirements.

Requirements Elicitation

Able to identify business needs, desired outcomes, and process requirements for ERP solutions and related integrations.

• Work with business owners and subject-matter experts to understand current processes, business problems, objectives, data needs, controls, and expected outcomes.
• Use interviews, workshops, process observation, document review, and data analysis to elicit and validate business requirements.
• Capture functional, data, reporting, security, integration, compliance, and nonfunctional requirements in clear business language.
• Identify requirements, exceptions, dependencies, assumptions, and value drivers that may not be initially articulated by business users.
• Prioritize requirements with stakeholders based on operational need, business value, risk, effort, and delivery constraints.
• Confirm stakeholder understanding and agreement before requirements move into design and delivery.

Business Process Analysis

Able to analyze current-state processes and define practical future-state processes supported by ERP capabilities.

• Document current-state and future-state processes across finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, receiving, shipping, warehouse, and related functions.
• Identify process gaps, manual work, duplicate effort, control weaknesses, inconsistent practices, and opportunities for standardization or automation.
• Assess how process changes affect users, roles, data, controls, integrations, reporting, and upstream or downstream activities.
• Compare business needs with standard ERP capabilities before recommending customization or separate applications.
• Facilitate process-alignment discussions across sites and business functions and document approved decisions.
• Develop process maps, business rules, decision points, exceptions, roles, and handoffs sufficient to support design, testing, training, and support.

Functional Solution Design

Able to translate approved business requirements into functional designs, configurations, and supportable ERP solutions.

• Create functional design specifications for ERP configuration, workflows, interfaces, reports, forms, security, and related business solutions.
• Map business requirements to functional specifications and maintain traceability through design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Partner with technical teams and vendors to explain business requirements and understand technical constraints and solution options.
• Evaluate configuration, extension, integration, reporting, and customization options and document recommended approaches and trade-offs.
• Consider scalability, usability, security, controls, supportability, upgrade impact, and cross-system dependencies in functional designs.
• Reuse established processes, integrations, data definitions, and approved solution patterns where appropriate.

ERP Portfolio Support

Able to provide functional ownership and operational support across current and future ERP platforms.

• Provide functional coverage, knowledge transfer, and continuity across the ERP portfolio.
• Support ERP configuration, issue triage, root‑cause analysis, vendor escalation, release planning, and production operations.
• Develop knowledge of the organization’s ERP platforms, modules, integrations, reports, data structures, security models, and business use.
• Investigate functional issues, reproduce problems, document findings, and coordinate resolution with business, technical, and vendor resources.
• Assess vendor releases, patches, new features, deprecations, and configuration changes for business impact and adoption opportunities.
• Maintain application inventories, ownership information, support procedures, issue histories, and open decisions.

Integration and Data Analysis

Able to analyze ERP data flows and coordinate functional requirements for interfaces with related applications and data platforms.

• Document inbound and outbound ERP integrations, source and target systems, data ownership, business rules, timing, exceptions, and reconciliation needs.
• Work with technical teams and vendors to define functional requirements for APIs, EDI, file exchanges, data conversions, and system interfaces.
• Use SQL, reporting, data extracts, or other analytical tools to research issues, validate transactions, reconcile results, and support requirements.
• Identify data‑quality, master‑data, mapping, timing, and control issues that affect ERP processes or reporting.
• Validate that integrations and conversions preserve required business meaning, completeness, accuracy, and controls.
• Coordinate integration testing and issue resolution across business, ERP, application, data, and vendor teams.

Business Requirements Testing and Validation

Able to maintain requirements traceability and ensure that ERP solutions meet approved business and functional requirements.

• Develop test strategies, scenarios, scripts, expected results, and traceability for functional, integration, regression, security, conversion, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Coordinate test data, environments, access, participants, dependencies, and defect‑management activities.
• Execute or support functional and integration testing and document results, defects, retesting, and final disposition.
• Validate configurations, workflows, integrations, reports, calculations, controls, master data, and exception handling.
• Work with stakeholders to evaluate test coverage and ensure that material business processes and exceptions are included.
• Confirm that approved requirements are satisfied before recommending deployment or release acceptance.

User Acceptance, Training, and Adoption

Able to coordinate user acceptance testing and support successful adoption of ERP processes and solutions.

• Build user‑acceptance test cases and coordinate testing with business process owners and end users.
• Provide clarification on requirements, expected behavior, business rules, process changes, and known limitations during testing.
• Develop or coordinate process documentation, work instructions, training materials, quick‑reference guides, and release communications.
• Train or support training for end users, process owners, and support teams.
• Incorporate stakeholder feedback into approved solution changes and adoption plans.
• Monitor adoption, recurring questions, workarounds, and support patterns after deployment and recommend improvements.

Vendor and Stakeholder Management

Able to serve as a functional liaison among business owners, IT teams, ERP providers, and implementation partners.

• Coordinate with ERP vendors, consultants, technical teams, and business stakeholders on requirements, questions, issues, deliverables, and decisions.
• Prepare clear problem statements, examples, process documentation, and acceptance criteria for vendor or technical review.
• Track vendor commitments, open issues, dependencies, change requests, and required business decisions.
• Help align stakeholder expectations regarding scope, schedule, responsibilities, risks, and outcomes.
• Communicate technical and functional topics in terms appropriate for business and technical audiences.
• Escalate material delivery, support, security, control, or business‑continuity risks through appropriate channels.

Documentation, Governance, and Controls

Able to maintain reliable ERP documentation and ensure solutions follow approved technology, security, and business‑control standards.

• Document requirements, process maps, functional designs, configurations, integrations, controls, security roles, tests, decisions, and support procedures.
• Maintain document versioning, approvals, traceability, ownership, and change history.
• Support role design, segregation‑of‑duties reviews, access validation, audit requests, and evidence gathering as assigned.
• Follow approved project, change‑management, security, data, architecture, and documentation standards.
• Identify duplicate or conflicting processes, requirements, configurations, reports, or definitions and recommend a consistent approach.
• Support knowledge transfer and cross‑training so critical ERP capabilities are not dependent on a single individual.

Project Planning and Delivery

Able to