Business System Analyst

Title: Business Analyst IT L3

Location: Torrance, CA

Duration: 4 Months

Travel: - 10% - Quarterly

Note : Looking for Local to Torrance, CA consultants on w2 only.

Job Description:

• We are looking for a BA with solid experience in the Supply Chain Management area, preferably in the automotive/motorcycle service replacement parts, or other commodity products. The person should be experienced in serving as a business analyst for implementing SCM systems, with some mainframe-interface knowledge. One of the projects that this candidate will work on is using the Blue Yonder system, but any other common SCM system experience will be fine (i.e. Oracle, SAP, etc..). The BA should have a good understanding of the overall supply chain management processes:Forecasting/ordering to the suppliers and order fulfillment,
• Inventory receiving, storage, and shipping (i.e. WMS),
• Dealer/distributor ordering and fulfillment processes.

Daily Tasks Performed:

• Partners with business staff across the organization to thoroughly understand the business needs to be supported by the information systems and technology.
• Demonstrated communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate ideas.
• Ability to lead meetings, gain consensus, and take and distribute meeting minutes.
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to the business, developers, and project team.
• Advanced ability to create complex business cases, process models, specifications, diagrams, mockups, prototypes, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Develops and conducts peer reviews of the business requirements and functional specifications to ensure that requirements are correctly interpreted.
• Determines how changes to the project will affect the business and systems.
• Provides recommendations regarding the evolution of the system.
• Develops and communicates detailed specifications for implementation.
• Maintains and ensures proper documentation. This includes meeting minutes, action items, issues lists, as well as updating system documentation.
• Coordinates or performs testing of system modifications. This includes the creation of a test plan, user scenarios and test cases.
• Works with system SME to create/update project documentation.
• Collaborates with the Project Manager to ensure the needs of the client have been met.
• Works with Project Manager to keep the project on schedule, within budget, while meeting the needs of the business.
• Ability to work on one or more cross ‐ functional projects of high complexity.

What will this person be working on:

One or more projects within Parts Applications. These include supporting upcoming vehicle launches and various service replacement part supply chain projects.

Position Success Criteria (Desired) - 'WANTS':

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
• Advanced ability to create well written business requirements.
• Advanced ability to create well written functional design/technical documentation.
• Advanced ability to create well written and effective test plans and test scripts.
• Advanced ability to create well written project documentation in PowerPoint slides for management review.
• Effective communication with business users and project stakeholders.
• Effective communication and guidance for the technical team.
• Ability to work with and negotiate with sometimes demanding business customers.
• Ability to become the IT Subject Matter Expert (SME) after implementation.
• Skills: System Development Life Cycle Concepts, Waterfall and Agile Project Methodologies
• Experience in Logistics/Supply chain desired.
• Experience in automotive is a plus
• Previous experience working on main frame is a plus.
• Previous experience with CICS, COBOL, DB2 and/or IMS a plus.