Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst Job ID: 152078 Duration: 12+ Months(W2 Only) Location: Hybrid (Findlay, OH or San Antonio, TX)

Client: Marathon Petroleum Corporation Columbus/APEX

Required Skills:

• Candidates must be willing to relocate to Findlay, Ohio or San Antonio, Texas prior to start date
• Candidates will work 4 days in office/1 day remote per week.
• In order to be eligible for this role, consultant must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future.

MUST HAVES:

• 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst in Agile settings
• Experience with SAP S4/HANNA, SAP FI or related financial and accounting ERP systems (Netsuite, Oracle Financials Cloud, JDE/PeopleSoft, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, etc.)
• Experience with financial and accounting platforms/applications (preferred: blackline, PowerPlan, Track/myTrack, OneSource, or Concur)
• Understanding of Agile frameworks like Scrum, SAFe, Kanban *Preference for candidates to have experience with PowerBI or Power Apps

Job Description:

This position offers an excellent opportunity to collaborate with business partners, product/platform owners, and subject matter experts to solve complex business problems and deliver value to MPC. This role is vital to the support, development and enhancement of Finance systems and processes. It will also ensure solutions are reliable, secure, and aligned with enterprise technologies. Responsibilities include driving critical projects, delivering value-added enhancements, gathering and documenting business requirements, and coordinating user testing. The role may involve process documentation, system configuration & integrations, and report design. A major opportunity with this role is learning and supporting the functionality of applications across the Corporate Functions organization to allow for effective planning of future value-add work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assists in the definition of business processes to measure, analyze, improve and control the process being reviewed.
• Works closely with the business and development teams to gain an understanding of business partners functional and non-functional requirements, provide feedback, and communicate changes.
• Analyzes and documents business and user requirements, creating documentation of functional requirements specifications.
• Applies understanding of systems and technologies to draft recommendations for appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.
• Assists with the continuous iterative exploration and investigation of business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.
• Understands and assists in cost-benefit analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and document knowledge for Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Understands and executes the basic IT service management practices around incident, Change, Problem and Solution Development Lifecycle (SDLC) delivery methodologies including basic configuration tasks.
• Assists in the analysis of test case development and execution in support of technology delivery.
• Assists in the planning, conducting and documenting of user stories, user feedback, supporting development of prototypes and wireframes.

Education and Required Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in information systems preferred, related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst in Agile settings
• Experience with SAP S4/HANNA, SAP FI or related financial and accounting ERP systems (Netsuite, Oracle Financials Cloud, JDE/PeopleSoft, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, etc.)
• Experience with financial and accounting platforms/applications (preferred: blackline, PowerPlan, Track/myTrack, OneSource, or Concur)
• Understanding of Agile frameworks like Scrum, SAFe, Kanban
• Preference for candidates to have experience with PowerBI or Power Apps

Skills:

• Agile Methodologies
• Business Analysis
• Business Domain Knowledge
• Business Partnering
• Business Process Improvement
• Change Management
• Communication & Collaboration
• Continuous Improvement
• Problem-Solving & Analytical Thinking
• Quality Assurance Management
• Requirements Management
• Solution Design