Sr. Business Systems Analyst

About Us: Perfict Global is a leading IT consulting services provider focused on providing innovative and successful business workforce solutions to Fortune 500 companies. Our trained and experienced professionals constantly strive to bring together the best technologies available to manage client's complex business and technology, participate in implementation activities and collaborate in new ways to meet client needs. We provide excellent benefits such as Medical, Dental, Vision a fun company to work Job description: We are looking for a Sr. Business Systems Analyst with at least 7 years of IT experience. Top Desired Skills: 1) Experience gathering requirements, writing user stories, and creating acceptance criteria 2) Create Uses cases based on the project meetings - strong understanding of process mapping 3) Ability to communicate between the technical teams and business to provide status updates and drive projects forward. Provide program support synthesizing concepts and reports across projects to deliver clear and effective reporting and presentations. 4) Program support focused on communicating through SharePoint and PowerBI to provide visibility to project status, issues and roadmaps across strategic projects and programs Will only consider candidates already local to the Northern Chicago area. No relocation candidates. There is currently no RTO policy set in place, however we would like to identity a local candidate that can come onsite as needed for meetings. Summary: The Senior IT Business Analyst role leads business and functional requirements gathering activities, business solution design and systems analysis. This role is guided by the CDW IT project management methodology in development of requirement specifications for IT projects. This position reports to the PMO Office. Desired Experience: - Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field. - Masters degree in Business or Advanced Information Technologies preferred. - Industry Certifications (PMP, CBAP, Six Sigma) - preferred. - 5 years experience in identifying and documenting business needs and specifications utilizing business analysis and system design techniques. - 7 years experience operating in a business analyst capacity, identifying and documenting business needs and specifications utilizing business analysis and system design techniques. Skills and Competencies: - Excellent written and verbal and communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate across company and department boundaries at all levels. - Demonstrated ability to effectively facilitate and lead meetings, tailoring messages to the given audience. - Proficient in requirements gathering software support, data mining tools, Microsoft Office applications, as well as CA Clarity and BI tools - ProClarity, Cognos. - Demonstrated ability to critically evaluate information, identify risks and opportunities, while possessing creative problem solving skills with an understanding of business concepts and models. - Proven elicitation and facilitation skills of project and system requirements. - Proficient negotiation and persuasion skills, with the ability to enable win-win resolutions. - Proven track record of successfully supporting the needs of project team members and internal stakeholders (locally and virtually). - Working knowledge of data processing fundamentals including entity relationship diagrams, database models, structured application design and IT infrastructure (networking and hardware). - Demonstrate influence without authority. - Ability to effectively resolve conflict with appropriate escalation. - History in teaching or mentoring professionals. Background/Experience in a retail or supply chain environment. Ability to manage and complete multiple tasks within tight deadlines. Working Experience with cloud-native technologies. Working Experience with SAFe/Agile project methodologies with business stake holders, development and DevOps team. Job Duties and Responsibilities: - Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify project requirements and business objectives and acquire commitments on complex projects. - Decompose business problems quickly and work with the project team to determine the root cause and provide solution alternatives. - Derive a detailed understanding of the stated business problem and objectives and work with the stakeholder and technical team toward resolution to achieve the objectives. - Plan and facilitate requirements gathering utilizing focus sessions, one-on-one interviews, and job shadowing. - Utilize advanced modeling techniques to develop high-level system narratives, presentations, storyboards, use cases and user interface prototypes. - Work with QA team to develop system test plans, ensure software quality assurance (SQA) standards are achieved, and validate that business goals are accomplished. - Serve as the thought leader in advanced modeling techniques to help define business processes, system usage, behavior and information capture. - Gather and prepare supporting analysis and design documentation from a business perspective. - Act as an active contributor to SDLC process improvement by remaining current in software engineering best practices. - Assist with alignment of project objectives and IT solutions to CDW business strategies and objectives. - Develop strong internal relationships with key stakeholders and subject-matter experts across the organization. - Serve as an active contributor to company-shared knowledge repositories (wikis, blogs, sharepoint, intranet, etc.). - Mentor and educate IT and business colleagues about business analysis discipline and requirements phase within development lifecycle. - Maintain an understanding of innovative IT product capabilities, marketplace and business opportunities Need to be able to work with business stack holders and non-technical users. Skills/Abilities - A multi-task-oriented individual able to assess situations quickly; problem-solver. Strong ability to be self-directed and motivate, coordinate, and direct team effort. Must possess practical oral and written communication skills - as well as small/large group presentation, cultural competence, organizational, and time management skills. Demonstrated ability to use tact, patience and courtesy in group and one-on-one settings. Must be able to read, interpret, apply and explain rules, regulations, policies, and procedures. Strong PC skills required (i.e., Microsoft Office, SharePoint, PowerBI user)