Supply Chain Business Analyst

Daily Tasks Performed:Partners with business staff across the organization to thoroughly understand the business needs to be supported by the information systems and technology.- Demonstrated communication skills including the ability to clearly communicate ideas.- Ability to lead meetings gain consensus and take and distribute meeting minutes.- Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to the business developers and project team.- Advanced ability to create complex business cases process models specifications diagrams mockups prototypes and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.- Develops and conducts peer reviews of the business requirements and functional specifications to ensure that requirements are correctly interpreted.- Determines how changes to the project will affect the business and systems.- Provides recommendations regarding the evolution of the system.- Develops and communicates detailed specifications for implementation.- Maintains and ensures proper documentation. This includes meeting minutes action items issues lists as well as updating system documentation.- Coordinates or performs testing of system modifications. This includes the creation of a test plan user scenarios and test cases.- Works with system SME to create/update project documentation.- Collaborates with the Project Manager to ensure the needs of the client have been met.- Works with Project Manager to keep the project on schedule within budget while meeting the needs of the business.- Ability to work on one or more crossfunctional projects of high complexity.Position Success Criteria Desired - 'WANTS':- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Systems Business Administration or other related field or equivalent work experience.- Advanced ability to create well written business requirements.- Advanced ability to create well written functional design/technical documentation.- Advanced ability to create well written and effective test plans and test scripts.- Advanced ability to create well written project documentation in PowerPoint slides for management review.- Effective communication with business users and project stakeholders.- Effective communication and guidance for the technical team.- Ability to work with and negotiate with sometimes demanding business customers.- Ability to become the IT Subject Matter Expert SME after implementation.- Skills: System Development Life Cycle Concepts Waterfall and Agile Project Methodologies- Experience in Logistics/Supply chain desired.- Experience in automotive is a plus- Previous experience working on main frame is a plus.- Previous experience with CICS COBOL DB2 and/or IMS a plus