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IT Business Analyst

Job Description: 

NPC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and one of the country’s top fresh produce supply chain management firms servicing national restaurant chains over 25 years, located in Plano, TX. 

We are currently looking for an IT Business Analyst to join our team. 

The IT Business Analyst will play an important role in short and long term business strategies while working with sales, marketing, operations, IT and client support teams. The analyst will collaborate closely with Operations to build an understanding of customer needs and behaviors through a technology enabled and data driven process. The Analyst will be responsible to ensure great customer experience while using OES (Order Entry System) applications by clients/customers and work closely with Distributors in integration of IT applications and services.

Compensation/Salary: 
DOE
Requirements: 
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline.
  • 4+ years of experience as a business analyst.
  • 5+ years of overall IT experience with significant experience in software development.
  • Extensive experience planning, facilitating, eliciting, documenting and managing business, functional and technical requirements.
  • Expertise in modeling / mapping as-is and to-be business processes.
  • Experienced in test planning, test case development and execution.
  • Working knowledge of a variety of technologies and platforms, including legacy midrange, client / server and web services.
  • Strong understanding of EDI, FTP, Webservice for data exchange.
  • Experience with Microsoft SQL Server is a plus
  • Ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects, activities and tasks under time constraints.
  • Ability to effectively interface with staff at all levels.
  • Exceptional communication, teamwork and influencing skills that foster a collaborative and continuous-improvement environment.
  • Excellent facilitation and organizational skills.
  • Strong critical / analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • High energy level, adaptive and a strong team player with a good work ethic.
Responsibilities & Duties: 
  • Serve as key liaison to other departments that have specific business functions.
  • Collaborate with departments to identify, document and communicate business needs and provide IT solutions.
  • Plan, elicit, capture, analyze and validate business, functional and technical requirements.
  • Facilitate requirements elicitation sessions and walkthroughs with business and IT resources.
  • Produce timely and high quality requirements-related work products, including requirement specifications, process flows, mock-ups and wireframes.
  • Plan, facilitate and execute system / functional testing and UAT for projects and enhancements.
  • Become deeply immersed and knowledgeable about core business functions, processes and workflows associated with assigned business areas and projects.
  • Understand the relationships, dependencies and impact of neighboring business functions.
  • Understand core systems, applications and technical platforms.
  • Evolve into a subject-matter expert who can easily liaise between IT and other departments.
  • Perform other duties as required or assigned.
  • Coordinate with Clients and Distributors IT Departments during integration of applications and systems.
  • Provide Support to ensure smooth functioning of IT Applications and systems

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