Senior Business Systems Analyst: Drive Process Improvements

Kforce Inc; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce Inc. in Scottsdale, AZ is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst to translate business needs into actionable requirements and drive improvements across the system landscape.

You will build trusted relationships with stakeholders in construction, engineering, procurement, operations, commercial, and finance, and help prioritize and refine the backlog while coordinating with IT and vendors to implement solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in or comparable to business analysis, business systems analysis, product ownership or technology delivery.
• Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specifications, or practical delivery plan.
• Experience mapping business processes and identifying implementable improvement opportunities.
• Experience working with IT teams, software vendors, or software delivery teams to solve business needs.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, facilitate tradeoff discussions, and align stakeholders around clear decisions.
• Ability to support implementation activities, including testing, user acceptance, documentation, user readiness and adoption feedback.
• Experience building stakeholder relationships, communicating business and technology needs, analyzing complex problems, and defining clear problem statements in business environments.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders across construction, engineering, procurement, operations, commercial, and finance.
• Seek to understand business goals, pain points, process gaps, and technology opportunities before recommending solutions.
• Map current state and future-state processes, conduct gap analysis, and assess business impact.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and/or functional specifications.
• Help prioritize the business systems backlog based on value, feasibility, risk, and stakeholder alignment.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives when needed to keep work clear and actionable.
• Coordinate implementation with IT capability teams, software vendors, developers, and business users.
• Support testing, user acceptance, documentation, change control, and adoption activities for system updates, retirements, and implementations.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders throughout project phases to maintain alignment, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce manual effort, automate repetitive tasks, and retire low-value legacy processes or technologies.
• Monitor system and application adoption and gather feedback to inform iterative improvements.

Skills

Business analysis

User stories

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder management

Agile / backlog

Tools

Snowflake

SQL

Power BI

Job description

Kforce Inc. in Scottsdale, AZ is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst to translate business needs into actionable requirements and drive improvements across the system landscape.

You will build trusted relationships with stakeholders in construction, engineering, procurement, operations, commercial, and finance, and help prioritize and refine the backlog while coordinating with IT and vendors to implement solutions.