Business Analyst IT

POSITION IS LOCATED IN TORRANCE, CA

Job Title: Business Analyst IT

Pay Rate: $59.00 to $66.00 per hour, (varies depending on factors described below)

Location Details: Torrance, California

Work Type: Onsite - 80% or more, Minimum 4 Days in Office

Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, Life Insurance, 401k, Continuing and on-demand education

This is a multi-year opportunity and a full-time, contract position.

!!! ONLY W2 - NO CORP to CORP - NO 3rd Parties !!!

H1B Transfer is Available

Job Description:
Partners with business staff across the organization to thoroughly understand the business needs to be supported by the information systems and technology
What will this person be working on:
One or more projects within Parts Applications. These include supporting upcoming vehicle launches and various service replacement part supply chain projects.
Required Skills:

• Demonstrated communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate ideas
• Ability to lead meetings, gain consensus, and take and distribute meeting minutes
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to the business, developers, and project team
• Advanced ability to create complex business cases, process models, specifications, diagrams, mockups, prototypes, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
• Develops and conducts peer reviews of the business requirements and functional specifications to ensure that requirements are correctly interpreted
• Determines how changes to the project will affect the business and systems
• Provides recommendations regarding the evolution of the system
• Develops and communicates detailed specifications for implementation
• Maintains and ensures proper documentation. This includes meeting minutes, action items, issues lists, as well as updating system documentation
• Coordinates or performs testing of system modifications. This includes the creation of a test plan, user scenarios and test cases
• Works with system SME to create/update project documentation
• Collaborates with the Project Manager to ensure the needs of the client have been met
• Works with Project Manager to keep the project on schedule, within budget, while meeting the needs of the business
• Ability to work on one or more crossfunctional projects of high complexity

Desired Skills:

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
• Advanced ability to create well written business requirements
• Advanced ability to create well written functional design/technical documentation
• Advanced ability to create well written and effective test plans and test scripts
• Advanced ability to create well written project documentation in PowerPoint slides for management review
• Advanced ability to utilize MS Visio for business/system process flow creation
• Effective communication with business users and project stakeholders
• Effective communication and guidance for the technical team
• Ability to work with and negotiate with sometimes demanding business customers
• Ability to become the IT Subject Matter Expert (SME) after implementation
• Skills: System Development Life Cycle Concepts, Waterfall and Agile Project Methodologies
• Experience in Logistics/Supply chain desired
• Experience in automotive is a plus
• Previous experience working on main frame is a plus
• Previous experience with CICS, COBOL, DB2 and/or IMS a plus
• Attention to granular level is a must
• 3+ years of big 4 consulting experience is preferred
• A stable work history with large enterprise organizations

The hiring range for this position is $59.00 to $66.00 per hour, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay rate actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.