Oracle Business Systems Analyst Senior

Overview: Actively understands and shares technology and business process knowledge across the organization. Optimizes the business applications portfolio utilized in the business processes. Leads resource teams to complete enhancements and small projects. Acts as the primary contact and communications bridge between the business operations and IT.

Skills and Abilities:

Ability to:

-Review and create application roadmaps for business applications portfolio

- Champion and sell improvement ideas using effective cost-benefit analysis

- Help define how to measure and validate the value capture once idea is implemented

- Lead teams and work efforts associated with business application and process changes

- Develop functional specifications to facilitate transition of work to technical delivery teams

- Document test plans and facilitate integration testing, acceptance testing and defect resolution

- Assist in the development of training material to support the implementation of new business processes and IT capability

- Develop and oversee work plans for deploying business application changes

- Interview users of business applications and independently elicit, document, analyze and prioritize business applications requirements

- Design system solutions by translating business requirements into system setup and/or configuration to positively impact the business

Knowledge:

- Complete knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ITIL and an implementation management methodology such as AIM

- Thorough knowledge of assigned business function processes, terminology and interrelationships strongly desired

- Knowledge of commercially available applications that address the business process needs and own product evaluation and selection vs. build decision

- Understands the principles of business and IT strategy within the organization

- Demonstrates thorough commercial awareness in relation to the environment in which they work

- Understands the principles of project management, system configuration and user acceptance testing and the link to requirements documentation

- Understands business systems implementation issues

Minimum Education and Certification:

- Bachelor's degree in technology related field

Minimum Experience:

- Typically 6+ years experience in technology related applications, supporting business applications, analyzing, recommending and implementing improvements, and developing and delivering training

- Consulting Experience - Preferred

- Oracle applications experience

- Business process development experience

- Successful outcomes serving as the communication bridge between IT and the business stakeholders

Leadership:

- Expected to serve as a resource to others for knowledge transfer, training and checking work

- May occasionally lead a team

Non-Essential Duties:

- Performs other duties as assigned

Physical Demands: (Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions)

- Regularly required to stand, walk, and bend with good balance, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms

- Regularly required to sit, perform repetitive duties, use a PC and to talk and hear

- Vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus

- Regularly required to lift, move and carry up to 10 pounds