Information Technology Business Analyst

(5+ years experience in one or more of the following): • Manufacturing / shop floor systems • Supply Chain, Product Mgt (part mgt, specs, BOMs) in the areas of material mgt, logistics, planning • Sales Operations or E-Commerce Key Responsibilities • Partners with business requesters to identify and scope high level needs in support of project initiation and business case development • Partners with Solution Architects to develop cost / risk analyses for IT solution design concepts • Provides guidance to business SMEs on project governance processes • Partners with Project Managers and Product Owners to define the requirements elicitation and documentation plan for approved projects • Leads the development of detailed Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and system Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) for approved projects including: • Facilitating requirements elicitation sessions with the user community • Developing and documenting use cases, etc. to demonstrate requirements • determining overall priorities for all requirements • Communicates functional and non-functional requirements to the solution architect • Partners with solution architect to ensure initial alignment between business requirements and IT solution design concepts, including supporting feasibility studies as appropriate • Partners with Testing Analysts to ensure test plans are developed and executed in alignment with internal standards and external compliance requirements • Ensures User Acceptance and Functional Testing is complete and confirms test results meet documented business needs • Partners with the User Experience and Transition Communities of Practice to ensure training plans and materials support overall business requirements Other Desirable Skills: • Lean facilitation experience (e.g. Kaizen), and VSM mapping experience • Root cause or problem analysis through discussions with users and coordination with internal support organization and/or vendors to resolve problems. • Analyzing business requirements and documenting the relationships between the components of the application system (i.e., end users, business processes, data, applications, and devices) • Managing small-medium project and shepherd changes through IT change management process. • Working in a GxP environment with knowledge of validation processes