Business Systems Analyst Keepstock Job in Lake Forest 60045, Illinois Us
Grainger is a global leading broad line supplier of facilities maintenance products serving businesses and institutions. Our 18,000 employees are driven to serve customers and the community in exceptional ways focusing on delivering the highest level of service. The Grainger team works closely with customers to better understand their challenges and provide cost-saving solutions. Grainger's employees serve customers more than 115,000 times every day through multiple channels. As part of a high-performing team, you'll be able to develop your talents, and make a difference. Grainger is a Fortune 500 company and a perennial member of Fortune magazine's Most Admired Companies list.
Business Systems Analyst Keepstock
As part of a high-performing team, you’ll be able to develop your talents, and make a difference. Grainger is a Fortune 500 company and a perennial member of Fortune magazine's Most Admired Companies list.
1) The Business Systems Analyst Programmer (BSAP) functions as a liaison working with stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. The BSAP understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends and implements solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
2) The BSAP role consists of the tasks, knowledge, and techniques required to identifying business needs, determine and assess proposed solutions to business problems. Solutions require analysis of impact against 3 variables:
System Development – Analysis work performed to review the current stated solutions used by an organization, to identify the issues, define the requirements, and suggest best possible solutions, in addition to configuration development and testing.
Continuous Improvement – Analysis work to review current manual or workflow activities and tasks performed by people, functional areas, and systems which are designed to achieve a specific outcome, while assuring data quality/integrity. Understands relationships, information exchanges/handoffs, procedures, policies, and observations of work performed to achieve specific outcomes. Within the context of the relationship with the business, assures alignment for continuous improvement within the systems landscape.
Note: This job is defined by 4 levels. Both the technical/non-technical abilities and the levels of performance are specified in the matrix at the end of the job description.
Participates in and/or drives design effort focusing on end to end process optimization, using standard system functionality whenever possible
Provides business systems analysis and process redesign expertise, interacting with business partners to clearly define and document business requirements
Creates and maintains, use cases, functional specifications, for the applications required at various phases of the System Development Life Cycle
Participates in and/or drives the system configuration, and development which meet security, architecture, and support requirements, all while satisfying business needs
Understands the systemic data requirements as they relate to improving/changing the business process or system
Participates and/or coordinates required testing/validation of system enhancements and fixes, creating and/or executing the test cases including problem determination and resolution
Collaborates with business partners regarding deployment needs, training, communications, change management and implementation of the application change
Applies project management standards ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner; communicates status and escalates open/unresolved issues when necessary
Participates in system emergency or crisis situations to define/implement workaround processes, corrective action, communication, and system clean up activities
Stays current with changing needs of the business and technology advancements in the marketplace that may drive improved business operations
Bachelor degree in Business Area or IS or equivalent work experience as appropriate based on job level.
Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate to various levels of management to clarify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions.
Strong system knowledge of SAP
Ability to work on cross-functional teams.
Ability to adapt to changing business processes, technologies, and environments.
Excellent organizational skills.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Strong PC experience required.
Strong interpersonal skills, e.g possesses ability to conduct stakeholder interviews.
This role focuses on the development and support of the Keepstock Secure Dispensing program. This BSA has the following key responsibilities:
Work with internal business partners on the identification and development of new innovative solutions to meet customer's needs, and leapfrog the competition.
Support different phases of the software development life cycle:
Identify and document requirements from business partners and users
Own RD of new system solutions to be deployed throughout the enterprise
Identify and document use cases which will drive the design of the solution
Work with third party software vendors though the analysis of the use cases
Work with third party software vendors through the creation of designs that meet business/systems requirements
Work with third party software vendors through the development and testing phases of the project
Project Plan and Manage the execution of project level tasks associated with each software release
Develop deployment plans, and work with business partners through the creation and execution of change plans
Document system/functional level changes, and educate key stakeholders as part of the deployment process
Grainger is an equal opportunity employer.
