Senior IT Business Analyst - QAD
Valmont Industries
- Omaha, NE
- Permanent
- Full-time
- This position reports to the Director Information Systems – Enterprise Applications Integration.
- This role requires up to 25% travel (internationally/domestically), including overnight stays.
- Flexible schedule, with the expectation to have the ability to report into the office as needed; a working schedule that provides some overlap with core US-based team hours between 7 am and 5 pm CST is needed.
- Provide leadership in utilization of Information Technology within Valmont as a trusted advisor to the organization.
- Continuously monitor industry trends, standards, and technologies with the goal of recommending and applying new technologies as they emerge.
- Follow company policies, procedures, and best practices to protect company data and ensure compliance.
- Demonstrate Valmont’s core values: Passion, Integrity, Continuous Improvement, and Deliver Results.
- Lead the development of high-level estimations of effort/cost associated with application projects and enhancements.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify, analyze, and document functional business requirements for application projects and enhancements.
- Collaborate with technical team to develop overall solutions and technical design to address functional requirements.
- Review and validate testing plans and conduct functional user testing to ensure delivered solutions meet functional business requirements.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing with business stakeholders.
- Review documentation and conduct training of end users/stakeholders.
- Lead small to moderate, cross functional projects with complex and challenging business problems that can have a broad organizational impact and provide opportunities for significant competitive advantage.
- Perform support activities based on escalation from the support team.
- Write and review supporting documentation for the software, such as release notes, help documentation, articles, and features.
- Actively engage in all aspects of the SDLC process.
- Make recommendations for process improvements within both the business and IT organizations.
- Mentor other functional analyst team members.
- Preferred Bachelors with 6+ years relevant experience or Associates Degree with 8+ years relevant experience or 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Understanding of overall enterprise business systems architecture, functionality, and usage.
- Understanding of project management principles.
- Ability to conduct and direct research into enterprise business systems application functionality and products to deploy as required.
- Understanding of manufacturing principles, practices, and procedures.
- Proficiency using Microsoft Office suite products.
- Ability to communicate (written and verbal) in English.
- Experience working in team-oriented and collaborative environment.
- Proven analytical and evaluative abilities.
- High level of initiative and self-motivation
- Demonstrated effectiveness in problem solving situations, good planning, and organizational skills.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
- Experience with ERP software such as IFS, QAD, Sage, SAP.
- Experience with QAD EE modules (Financials, Sales, Manufacturing, Procurement, Automation Solutions).
- Experience with ERP implementation.
- Experience working with tools such as Azure Dev Ops or JIRA.
- Business analysis certifications from IIBA or PMI or business-related certifications such as APICS.
- Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
- Ability to perform general mathematical calculations for the purpose of creating business cases.
- Keen attention to detail.
- Exceptional customer service orientation.