17 Apr
Senior Business Systems Analyst, Manufacturing
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Albertsons-Safeway Company is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons-Safeway family of brands includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity, spirit and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.The Information Technology Department has an opening for a Business Systems Analyst IV, Manufacturing. This position is located in Pleasanton, California.Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Shape solutions to fit business objectives in the Manufacturing domain in the capacity of business systems analyst.
- Knowledge and ability to use and administer the organization's technology practices, standards and procedures
- Knowledge of organization's total Information Technology (IT) environment.
- Knowledge and understanding of marketplace experience, developments and trends related to the Information Technology (IT) function.
- Consult with the business clients to understand and assess business process under review.
- Analyze business processes, fit-gap analysis, inefficiencies and risks to determine appropriate process and system design.
- Optimize and streamline business process and technical solutions.
- Identify gaps between current and future state of business processes and prioritize opportunities to improving processes.
- Lead and facilitate business user meetings to gather process information. Assist others in understanding the flow of information/processes and data through systems.
- Collaborate and provide inputs to the development team during development phase to meet the business needs.
- Knowledge of major tasks, deliverables, formal methodologies and disciplines for delivering new or enhanced applications.
- Knowledge of formal methodologies for planning and executing application development, enhancement or support.
- Applies RUP or Agile project methodologies to the task of requirements gathering and communicating with the project team. Manage and prioritize requirements through the development lifecycle.
- Guides the project team towards the incremental delivery of project releases.
- Facilitates and encourage communication and information flow between end users and the project teams to refine requirements, define the project vision, and develop project goals and roadmaps.
- Identify, analyze and document system requirements (functional and non-functional).
- Oversee the planning and execution of User Acceptance Testing.
- Identify requirements and contribute to end user training materials and procedures when required.
- Perform Data Analysis and Mapping for system conversion and integration efforts.
- 4 year degree (Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.
- 8+ years of business analysis and /or functional experience with some experience as a Product Owner on agile software projects. MBA a plus. Domain or Functional knowledge required.
- Significant experience in the Manufacturing Domain including Production Planning, Inventory and Cost Accounting (for Consumer Packaged goods) is desired.
- Significant experience with Infor M3 Manufacturing ERP software is desirable
- Significant experience with Data Analysis is preferred. Demonstrated hands-on knowledge of SQL against any RDMS is a requirement. Oracle, Sqlserver, DB2 and Azure data Lake are preferred.
- Demonstrated use of Requirements gathering Tools like Requisite PRO, HP suite and wireframes is highly desired.
- Application Support experience working with ticketing systems (such as Service Now) is desirable
- Experience in training Business End Users is desirable
- Prior experience with DevOps methodology, tools and technologies will be a plus
- Strong working knowledge of EXCEL and VISIO is a requirement.
- Ability to successfully partner with vendors/agencies and internal stakeholders; ability to work within a cross-functional team environment where teams are sometimes located remotely.
- Strong ability to prioritize and resolve technical issues within the broader project team.
- Strong technical skills in analyzing functional business processes, process modeling, business modeling tools, developing system solutions and documentation standards
- Strong collaboration skills while working with SME's, senior leaders, IT PMO and business users/ stakeholders to drive business analysis/user requirements.
- Strong negotiation skills when working with business users to develop requirements and defend systems capabilities.
- Ability to multitask and work effectively in a matrix management environment.
- Strong customer service skills and ability to follow through to resolve customer issues.
- Ability to understand client expectations and recognize and resolve issues that may affect delivery.
- Ability to share knowledge and coach and train other business systems analysts.
- Strong experience in leading discovery and initiation phase for large scale technical projects.
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