Business System Analyst

Job Summary

Conduct business process analyses, needs assessments, and preliminary cost/benefit analyses in an effort to align information technology solutions with business initiatives. Analyze business procedures and needs to develop detailed specifications from which programs will be written.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

- Formulate and define scope of system and objectives.

- Confer with organizational units involved to determine requirements.

- Oversee large, complex, more important projects or more than one project, including planning, assigning, monitoring and reviewing progress and accuracy of work, evaluating results.

- Devise sample input data to test accuracy of program

- Observe or runs test of program using sample or actual data.

- Conduct inquiries pertaining to the development of new information systems to meet current and projected business needs.

- Write functional specifications of user needs for application development, enhancements, and testing.

- Analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to improve existing systems.

- Prepare functional, systems and program specifications.

- Prepare project plans and implementation schedules.

- Maintain and develop documentation for responsible area.

- Provide status updates of assigned projects.

- Recommend/conduct training.

- Maintain positive relations with all employees encouraging them to suggest ways of improving IT systems.

- Serve as escalation point for troubleshooting issues.

- Maintain a good working relationship with customers and vendors.

- Ensure 100% adherence to all IT and department policy, processes and procedures.

- Participate in the exchange of ideas and information within the department.

- Drive continuous improvement through trend reporting analysis and metrics management.

- Assure that procedures and work instructions are efficient and not redundant.

- Establish new measurement systems if/where possible.

Education & Experience Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree required.

- Degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems preferred.

- Plus a minimum of 3 to 7 years work experience in a technical BA/IT Analyst. 

- Good knowledge of programming/developing web applications (using C#, Java, etc.).