Senior Business Systems Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst in Scottsdale, AZ.

Understand the business:
* Build trusted relationships with stakeholders across construction, engineering, procurement, operations, commercial, and finance
* Seek to understand business goals, pain points, process gaps, and technology opportunities before recommending solutions
* Map current state and future-state processes, conduct gap analysis, and assess business impact

Shape the work:
* Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and/or functional specifications
* Help prioritize the business systems backlog based on value, feasibility, risk, and stakeholder alignment
* Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives when needed to keep work clear and actionable

Deliver practical improvements:
* Coordinate implementation with IT capability teams, software vendors, developers, and business users
* Support testing, user acceptance, documentation, change control, and adoption activities for system updates, retirements, and implementations
* Communicate clearly with stakeholders throughout project phases to maintain alignment, risks, and tradeoffs

Improve the system landscape:
* Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce manual effort, automate repetitive tasks, and retire low-value legacy processes or technologies
* Monitor system and application adoption and gather feedback to inform them about iterative improvements

REQUIREMENTS:
* Experience in or comparable to business analysis, business systems analysis, product ownership or technology delivery
* Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specifications, or practical delivery plan
* Experience mapping business processes and identifying implementable improvement opportunities
* Experience working with IT teams, software vendors, or software delivery teams to solve business needs
* Ability to manage competing priorities, facilitate tradeoff discussions, and align stakeholders around clear decisions
* Ability to support implementation activities, including testing, user acceptance, documentation, user readiness and adoption feedback
* Experience building stakeholder relationships, communicating business and technology needs, analyzing complex problems, and defining clear problem statements in business environments

What Will Put You Ahead:
* Experience supporting platforms or solutions in the EPC environment
* Experience with data and analytics governance and tools (IE; Snowflake, SQL, Power BI)
* Experience with AGILE teams and innovation frameworks
* Experience evaluating and applying intelligent technologies to improve business processes, decision making, and user adoption

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

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