IT Business Analyst II
Kansas State University
- Manhattan, KS
- $75,000-90,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Establish relationships with functional partners and act as a liaison between information technology teams and assigned business groups
- Actively engage with assigned business offices and stakeholders to understand their operation, objectives, and challenges
- Translate user needs to business requirements and collaborate with development resources to ensure system requirements will meet the business requirements
- Works with subject matter experts, developers, and others to examine as-is business processes and systems to gain information in creating and documenting desired new processes and/or supporting applications
- Documents existing and new business processes, associated resources and dependencies
- Conduct gap analysis and assist in identifying feasible solutions to meet stakeholder objectives
- Designs and utilizes metrics to measure business process efficiencies and effectiveness
- Collaborate with end users, Project Managers, and technical resources to formulate solutions that balance user and systems requirements
- Identifies and document business and system requirements and use cases for support in the coordination of projects
- Manage projects requiring coordination of resources and technical or process analysis
- Develop project documentation and plans to successfully coordinate projects as assigned
- Work with users, other IT staff members, and vendors to coordinate and schedule application changes, enhancements, and implementations
- Perform business cases analysis and serve as consultant to departments submitting projects requests to the Division of Information Technology
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with staff and vendors and respond to problems in a tactful and expedient manner
- Partner with functional users in identifying solutions and assessing the costs and benefits to implement new or enhanced processes or systems
- Participates and at time leads team sessions
- Explores new technologies, tools, and techniques and works with the team and with leadership to continue to evolve our technology stack
- Support large projects as assigned, providing analytical support
- Produces specification documents for large initiatives that support discovery, development, and user acceptance activities
- Requires a bachelor's degree and four years of relevant experience
- Three years of experience in a higher education environment
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Analytical and creative problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written forms
- Excellent facilitation, collaboration, and presentation skills
- Ability to simultaneously coordinate multiple projects, resources, and activities
- Experience with developing requirements, establishing business cases, and developing process flow diagrams
- Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- Self-motivated and directed, with the ability to effectively organize, prioritize, and execute tasks while under pressure
- Ability to communicate with non-technical and technical staff, includes the ability to explain technical concepts in non-technical terms
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States at the time of employment
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- Three professional references
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