Job Overview
The Senior Business Analyst is a strategic partner leading business analysis for complex IT and business initiatives in a specific business unit or operational domain. This role ensures technology solutions align with business strategy and priorities, acting as the primary liaison between stakeholders and IT to drive clarity and solution excellence. The position operates independently, influences leaders, and elevates analysis maturity.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the full business analysis lifecycle for complex or high-impact initiatives.
- Serve as the primary liaison between business units, IT, and external partners.
- Partner with business leaders to understand strategic objectives and translate them into clear, actionable requirements.
- Conduct current-state and future-state analysis, identifying process gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
- Facilitate workshops, working sessions, and stakeholder meetings to drive clarity and alignment.
- Develop high-quality business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, and supporting documentation.
- Ensure traceability from business objectives through solution design and implementation.
- Collaborate with developers, ERP teams, integrations, and data teams to ensure solutions meet business needs.
- Support testing efforts including UAT coordination, validation of requirements, and issue resolution.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and change impacts across systems and processes.
- Drive continuous improvement within their focused business domain.
- Elevate BA standards, tools, and practices across the organization.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in Business Analysis or related roles.
- Strong experience working with ERP systems and integrated application environments.
- Proven ability to lead complex requirement-gathering efforts.
- Experience facilitating workshops and stakeholder alignment sessions.
- Strong analytical, documentation, and process modeling skills.
- Ability to translate business language into technical clarity.
- Experience supporting system implementations or major enhancements.
- Experience in manufacturing or multi-ERP environments.
- Familiarity with integrations and data/reporting environments.
- Experience mentoring and/or improving BA practices.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills, with the ability to foresee potential issues.
- Certifications such as CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) or PMI-PBA (PMI Professional in Business Analysis) are highly desirable.
- Strategic thinking, systems-level understanding, executive communication, structured problem-solving, stakeholder influence, process improvement mindset, ownership and accountability.
