Business Systems Analyst II

O'Reilly Auto Parts; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

O'Reilly Auto Parts is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to document current and future state processes, translate business needs into clear technical specifications, and support change with rigorous traceability. You will lead requirements elicitation sessions, decompose complex needs, and collaborate with engineers, testers, and project managers to ensure alignment across the organization.

Responsibilities include creating user guides, maintaining documentation, and supporting feasibility

Qualifications

• Analyzes business needs and documents current and future state processes.
• Translates requirements into technical specs for data models and interfaces.
• Leads requirement elicitation sessions and validates with users.
• Develops testing scripts and acceptance criteria.
• Maintains traceability and documentation throughout projects.
• Communicates complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support and contribute to documentation of "as is" and "to be" processes and migrations.
• Facilitate requirements sessions with stakeholders using interviews, workshops and surveys.
• Analyze and decompose complex business needs into functional and non-functional requirements.
• Conduct primary data research and identify key themes and trends.
• Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications for data models, processes, interfaces, and integrations.
• Create clear documentation for development and testing teams.
• Explore external developments and evaluate their impact on the organization.
• Carry out feasibility assessments and contribute to business cases.
• Deliver small- or medium-scale projects within an established program plan.
• Communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders; collaborate cross-functionally.
• Support a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Participate in assessment and development planning to grow capabilities and obtain relevant accreditation.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder collaboration

Requirements analysis

Process documentation

Business rules

Testing/verification

Communication of technical concepts

Change management

Data interpretation

Tools

Database reporting tools

Modeling tools

Job description

Responsibilities and Duties

• Support and contribute to the documentation of \"as is\" and \"to be\" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the \"to be\" capability to accurately record the changes required.


• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders, employing various techniques such as interviews, workshops and surveys. Critically analyze and decompose complex business needs into functional and non-functional requirements.


• Conduct research using primary data sources, and select information needed for the analysis of key themes and trends.


• Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level.


• Identify, elicit, and document project/process requirements, using appropriate techniques. Analyze requirements and validate with original users, eliminating confusion. Define the testing scripts and verification criteria to ensure requirements are met. Maintain documentation and traceability throughout project.


• Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications, including data models, process flows, system interfaces, and integration requirements. Create clear and concise documentation for development and testing teams.


• Explore and develop a basic understanding of external developments or emerging issues and contribute to the evaluation of their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.


• Carry out feasibility and assessment work for proposed and current projects to contribute to the development and continuous review of business cases.


• Deliver small- or medium-scale projects while working within an established program management plan.


• Effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business users, engineers, testers, and project managers.


• Support a culture of innovation by contributing to solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration.


• Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, and industry best practices through ongoing education and reading specialist media.

Skills

Required

• Analyzes trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making.


• Conducts gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy.


• Understands business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business.


• Envisions and documents the future state of processes and products by identifying the solution scope, potential value of the future state, and the changes to the process, technology, organization infrastructure, and capabilities necessary to achieve the desired future state.


• Leads facilitated sessions for requirements elicitation, focus groups, and user acceptance testing.


• Utilizes the appropriate modeling tool(s) to diagram the requirements from data and state changes, process and process improvements, as well as use cases and user stories.


• Creates clear, comprehensive, effective, and user-friendly guides, manuals, narratives, and reports that convey complex technical concepts, using documentation tools to craft structured and visually appealing content that meets the intended purposes.


• Expresses user needs in terms of business requirements, identifies current capability of the business to deliver, conducts build or buy analyses, and recommends preferred approach.


• Creates the rules for requirements and design quality, performs verification activities, and maintains quality control.


• Identifies, selects, and manages the oversight of business analysis work, including decision making, change control, prioritization, and approval processes.


• Manages the documentation, archiving, traceability, changes, and approvals of requirements throughout the project life cycle.


• Identifies potential stakeholders, analyzes their expectations, and develops strategies for managing stakeholders and their expectations.

Preferred

• Interprets, contributes to, or leads business case creation with client departments to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment.


• Uses database reporting tools and techniques.


• Plans, identifies, monitors, analyzes, and prioritizes risks (threats and opportunities), creates response plans, and manages the risk if i