IT Business Analyst IV

Location: Dickinson, ND

Key Accountabilities

• Translates business strategies into IT requirements and develops business requirements for IT services.

• Accountable to the IT function for advocacy of the IT policies, strategies, and practices.

• Communicates with the business customers around IT services, costs and needs.

• Translates business needs/strategies into IT requirements and sources IT services to meet requirements (current and future).

• Understands end-to-end business processes, actively measures business contribution of enabling systems (functional business system measures), and initiates improvement to the process and/or systems.

• Works with service managers to ensure services meet customer needs.

• Provides projected demand for services to the Service Managers.

• Understands and communicates to the customers on both the cost and value of services provided.

• Manages detailed business process software portfolio (when applicable).

• Performs front-end-loading (FEL), business case development and where appropriate, leads projects.

• Works with business-unit-specific vendors and industry groups. Influences customer demand.

• Reviews range of existing solutions available and presents options and recommendations to the customer on which ones to use.

Required and Preferred Skills and Experience

• Senior level, typically 7+ years of experience.

• Understands advanced aspects of discipline and is viewed as an expert in a given field.

• Applies broad range of competencies to develop solutions to complex problems.

• Influences others to achieve objectives.

• Often provides specialized/technical/functional guidance to others within department and/or business asset.