Senior Business Systems Analyst

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst in Scottsdale, AZ. Understand the business:

• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders across construction, engineering, procurement, operations, commercial, and finance
• Seek to understand business goals, pain points, process gaps, and technology opportunities before recommending solutions
• Map current state and future-state processes, conduct gap analysis, and assess business impact

• Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and/or functional specifications
• Help prioritize the business systems backlog based on value, feasibility, risk, and stakeholder alignment
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives when needed to keep work clear and actionable

• Coordinate implementation with IT capability teams, software vendors, developers, and business users
• Support testing, user acceptance, documentation, change control, and adoption activities for system updates, retirements, and implementations
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders throughout project phases to maintain alignment, risks, and tradeoffs

• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce manual effort, automate repetitive tasks, and retire low-value legacy processes or technologies
• Monitor system and application adoption and gather feedback to inform them about iterative improvements
• Experience in or comparable to business analysis, business systems analysis, product ownership or technology delivery
• Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specifications, or practical delivery plan
• Experience mapping business processes and identifying implementable improvement opportunities
• Experience working with IT teams, software vendors, or software delivery teams to solve business needs
• Ability to manage competing priorities, facilitate tradeoff discussions, and align stakeholders around clear decisions
• Ability to support implementation activities, including testing, user acceptance, documentation, user readiness and adoption feedback
• Experience building stakeholder relationships, communicating business and technology needs, analyzing complex problems, and defining clear problem statements in business environments

• Experience supporting platforms or solutions in the EPC environment
• Experience with data and analytics governance and tools (IE; Snowflake, SQL, Power BI)
• Experience with AGILE teams and innovation frameworks
• Experience evaluating and applying intelligent technologies to improve business processes, decision making, and user adoption