AX Business Analyst

looking for a real BA here, as opposed to a PM with some BA skills.

• Strong analysis skills and experience
• Especially around ERP (D365 Finance and Operations ERP or AX 2012 strongly preferred).
• Hopefully we can find someone with some SQL skills and some basic IT knowledge / skills (like working around servers) also.

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Senior IT Business Analyst

Description

The Senior IT Business Analyst is responsible for analyzing, specifying, proposing, and partnering with subject matter experts to define the best solutions to meet business needs using knowledge and expertise around the ERP and supporting systems focusing primarily on Finance, Order Management, Production, and Supply Chain business process areas. 

This person will apply proven communication, analytic, and problem-solving skills ensuring alignment with IT and overall business transformation strategies. Ultimately the Sr IT BA formulates and recommends solutions that can be applied globally and aligns ERP and systems functionality with Finance, Ordering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and fulfillment business processes.

The Senior IT Business Analyst can expect to work closely with many functional areas at Technical Glass Products, especially our D365 Finance & Operations Implementation Team and Finance. 

Responsibilities

• Defining ideal and practical business system solutions while driving for standardization
• Providing ERP support with small to complex business requirements and challenges
• Responsible for gathering requirements, analyzing and creating functional specifications, understanding ERP setups and configuration options, documenting and testing solutions, and ensuring business partner understanding and acceptance
• Leverage databases to help the business, especially finance, with insights and reporting.
• Working with users to create and execute test cases that cover multiple business scenarios
• Collaborating with application Developers to ensure functional spec designs are understood and technically executed correctly
• Participating in active partnerships with key business users to look for ways to further optimize system usage and best practices
• Active involvement in supporting future strategic ERP deployments and implementations globally
• Working across multiple locations and business partners to develop global/regional system and process improvements
• Analyzing and challenging existing processes and assumptions to help define the best solutions to meet the current and future business needs
• Reinforcing the business drivers to promote the usage of standard ERP functionality
• Actively supporting rapid and continuous improvement events by providing a combined view of business and system processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology or related field
• 5+ years of proven experience within large manufacturing (multi-national) and distribution operations
• 3+ years of experience working with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 or D365 ERP – with heavy emphasis in Manufacturing and Supply Chain-related business activities
• Expertise and experience with at least 3 of the 5 core module areas including: Finance, Order Management and Product Configurators, Master Planning, Production Control, Transportation Management, Warehouse / Inventory Management, Accounts Receivable / Accounts Payable
• Demonstrated experience with supporting major ERP upgrades and/or implementations
• Prefer experience working on a global (multi-region) ERP projects
• Experience developing comprehensive business requirements, functional design documents, completing impact assessments, and contributing to business cases that identify value of the change
• Ability to work independently as well as to collaborate effectively with others in person and remotely
• Solid knowledge around Microsoft SureStep methodology
• Excellent customer service skills
• Excellent communication skills with all levels. Proven ability to lead and communicate orally, in written documents, and in formal presentations is required.
• Team player, change agent, and customer-driven mentality
• Analytical approach to problem-solving, solid conceptual skills and willingness to learn, sense of urgency and commitment for a job well done.
• Strong work ethic, results oriented
• Demonstrated ability to successfully participate in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Solid understanding of data integrity and audit / compliance procedures
• Applicable Techno-functional knowledge with Dynamics AX is a big plus
• Basic familiarity with relational databases (MS-SQL) and client-servers concepts
• Comfortable using SQL and other tools to work with data for ad hoc analysis
• Basic understanding of servers and applications