Principal Business Analyst

Nordson; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordson seeks a Principal Business Analyst to serve as a senior contributor supporting JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and related business processes. You will partner with business and technology stakeholders to analyze complex needs, define scalable solutions, improve processes and controls, and guide initiatives from discovery through adoption and support.

You will provide functional leadership across projects, mentor other analysts, and help shape the JD Edwards product roadmap, working across

Qualifications

• Senior-level business-analysis expertise focused on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
• Ability to translate business objectives into clear functional requirements.
• Experience leading end-to-end initiatives from discovery through adoption.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and analysis for complex JD Edwards initiatives across finance, distribution, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain, and asset management.
• Collaborate with process owners, architects, developers, security, and vendors to define requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Develop business cases, process maps, user stories, traceability, and documentation for initiatives.
• Recommend configurations and functionality with emphasis on security, control, and total cost of ownership.
• Provide senior functional guidance on JD Edwards applications, data, integrations, and reporting.

Skills

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder management

Process mapping

Test strategy & QA

Job description

Collaboration drives Nordson's success as a market leader in Industrial Precision Solutions and Advanced Technology. Our employees thrive in an environment where we help each other reach our personal best and enable our company to continuously improve and grow, and our customers to succeed. You will find Nordson employees sharing our success by giving back in the communities around the world where we live and work.

Nordson is seeking a Principal Business Analyst to serve as a senior individual contributor supporting JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and related business processes. This role partners with business and technology stakeholders to analyze complex needs, define scalable solutions, improve processes and controls, and guide initiatives from discovery through adoption and support. The Principal Business Analyst provides functional leadership across projects and operational improvements, mentors other analysts, and helps shape the JD Edwards product roadmap.

Business Analysis and Solution Leadership

• Lead discovery and analysis for complex JD Edwards EnterpriseOne initiatives, enhancements, integrations, and process improvements across finance, distribution, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain, and asset management.
• Partner with process owners, subject-matter experts, architects, developers, security teams, and vendors to translate business objectives into clear functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Evaluate current-state processes, data, controls, pain points, and system capabilities; define practical future-state processes and scalable solution options.
• Develop business cases, process maps, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, decision records, traceability, and other analysis deliverables appropriate to the initiative.
• Recommend configuration and delivered functionality before customization, balancing business value, user experience, security, compliance, supportability, and total cost of ownership.
• Provide senior functional guidance for JD Edwards applications, data, integrations, reporting, security roles, batch processing, and adjacent enterprise platforms.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of technical integrations and their configuration, including interfaces, data flows, endpoints, authentication, error handling, dependencies, and troubleshooting across JD Edwards and connected enterprise systems.
• Identify cross-functional dependencies, risks, assumptions, and impacts, and facilitate timely decisions with business and technology stakeholders.

Project and Product Delivery

• Lead the business-analysis workstream for implementations, upgrades, acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, global rollouts, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with product owners, project managers, and sponsors to define outcomes, scope, priorities, estimates, milestones, dependencies, and delivery approaches.
• Plan and coordinate functional design reviews, prototyping, testing, defect triage, data validation, cutover readiness, training, communications, and post-implementation support.
• Create and execute test strategies and scenarios that validate end-to-end business processes, integrations, reports, controls, and data quality.
• Maintain a well-defined backlog of enhancements and defects, clarify acceptance criteria, and support prioritization based on value, risk, effort, and strategic alignment.
• Monitor delivered outcomes and service trends, identify root causes and improvement opportunities, and recommend actions that reduce manual work and recurring issues.
• Ensure solutions and supporting documentation are complete, supportable, auditable, and transitioned effectively to operational teams.

Stakeholder Partnership and Facilitation

• Build trusted relationships with business process owners, site leaders, end users, and technology teams across a global organization.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, process reviews, design sessions, and decision forums that drive shared understanding and actionable outcomes.
• Communicate complex business and technical topics clearly to varied audiences through concise documentation, presentations, demonstrations, and status updates.
• Assess whether issues originate in process, data, configuration, security, integrations, infrastructure, or usability, and coordinate resolution with the appropriate teams.
• Support organizational change by assessing stakeholder impacts and contributing to communications, training, adoption, and readiness plans.
• Represent business needs while promoting standardized processes, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, internal controls, and sustainable platform practices.

Practice Leadership and Continuous Improvement

• Serve as a subject-matter expert and mentor to business analysts and project team members without direct people-management responsibility.
• Establish and improve reusable business-analysis methods, templates, quality standards, and knowledge assets.
• Contribute to product roadmaps and portfolio planning by identifying busi