IT Business Analyst at ITT Aerospace Controls LLC in Valencia, California

Job Description:

IT Business Analyst

US-CA-Valencia

Job ID: 2024-13704
Type: Employee
# of Openings: 1
Category: Information Technology
US-CA-Valencia -1166

Overview

Summary: The IT Business Analyst is responsible for all functional aspects of various ERPs, integrated applications, and reports supporting the Aerospace Controls business in Valencia, CA.

As a cross-functional IT and Business matter expert, this role is crucial to ensuring the effectiveness of business systems and their related business processes. This position will work with the IT team to document existing functionalities (business logic) and requirements, resolve issues, and implement solutions for business needs. The candidate will report to the IT leadership team of the value center (Connect & Control Technologies).

The IT Business Analyst collaborates with business stakeholders in Operations, Quality, Sales, Finance, Engineering, and other front-end teams to understand key business objectives and goals, analyze and prioritize process and systems opportunities, and assist businesses with reports and/or data integrity. For a person to be successful in this role, they will need to be highly driven (“high motor”), able to balance many active priorities, detail-oriented, planful, comfortable in searching out and addressing ambiguity, able to drive results to achieve intended business outcomes consistently, persists with a naturally curious and highly accountable mindset, and approaches situations in a thoughtful and process-oriented manner. Furthermore, a successful person in this role will be able to identify and exploit opportunities that enable continuous business process improvement, leveraging information technology to automate and streamline various business processes.

This position involves managing end-user relationships, responding to critical and routine application support requests (via the first-line support global IT ticketing system and emails), triaging dealing with business logic and non-development needs (coding is not a requirement), engaging in projects, and liaising with various IT teams.

Responsibilities

Essential Responsibilities:

• Translate user needs and business requirements by writing documentation or editing functional specifications for current systems and reports, system changes, and/or system enhancements; present ideas/solutions focused and concisely.
• Collaborate with business partners, BRMs (Business Relationship Managers), project managers, developers, technical resources (vendors), and application support team to write precise, complete, functional design specifications for reports, forms, workflows, interfaces, and data mapping.
• Lead the effort to reverse engineer business logic in software and document the corresponding functionality/business rules.
• Assess the existing report landscape and identify new opportunities to examine data.
• Respond to user issues in a timely manner to support a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Troubleshoot and analyze root causes in various ERP and business system application modules.
• Manage help desk ticketing system triage and routing as needed.
• Provide personal coaching and mentoring for the end-user community to ensure effective use of business and system processes.
• Develop end-user training and other relevant instructions and technical documentation to support business processes.
• Effectively navigates dynamically evolving time constraints and expediting processes when necessary.
• Ensure master data integrity in critical systems as well as maintain the processes to support the data quality.
• Collaborate with businesses to design and deploy daily analytics to facilitate successful business continuity across all departments.
• Lead or participate in ERP-related projects for new or improved functionality.
• Identifies areas for data quality improvements and helps to resolve data quality problems through the appropriate choice of error detection and correction, process control and improvement, or process design strategies.
• Configure existing ERP modules for current organizations and new implementations.
• Assess legacy system business processes and map data and processes into modern ERP systems.
• Assess available first-party and third-party products/modules and perform cost/benefit analysis based on ITT needs.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Information Systems or related field required or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Five or more years of experience working with ERP in a manufacturing business environment.
• Experience working with industry standards, regulations, and guidelines in database warehousing and other relevant systems.
• Experience with and understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements.
• Proven knowledge and experience in Business Analytic skills. Must have strong knowledge and experience with MS Excel (Data integration, Pivot, tables, charts).
• Experience working with information security practices and available security software packages.
• Experience with process mapping tools.
• Good personal computer and business solutions software skills.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) to collaborate with customers, team members, external data providers, and management.
• Good skills in data administration, design, and architecture.
• Dynamic and positive attitude to navigate through conflicting priorities, external and internal changes, and ambiguities.
• Excellent problem-solving, oral and written communication, and interpersonal relationship skills.
• Must be a team player, tenacious and determined, able to organize diffused ideas, ownership, and have a positive outlook.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP ERP, Oracle, BPCS, Epicor and/or BI softwares
• Knowledge of development techniques and software architecture
• Experience reading and writing SQL
• Experience working in an ITAR controlled business environment.
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration or related field.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel

This position requires the use of information subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee or Refugee.

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Salary:

$108,200.00

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