Senior Technical Business Analyst

Manifest Solutions is currently seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst for an onsite position in Columbus, OH.

• Able to understand stakeholder needs and participate in the formation of business case and project scope.
• Demonstrates breadth and depth of business analysis techniques and tools for use case modeling, data modeling, and process mapping.
• Learns new domain by collaborating with business and technical teams
• Demonstrates facilitation and process improvement skills.
• Creates analysis work plans and estimates of analysis activities
• Conducts workshops for requirements elicitation, creates documentation, establishes business capabilities, and ensures asset organization and refinement.
• Proves technical aptitude utilizing querying tools and understanding relational databases.
• Applies technology solutions by translating business requirements into conceptual, logical, and physical data models, and system configuration
  
• Participate in process redesign and support including using tools, responding to user questions, problem diagnosis, recognition and solutions for process improvements, research, troubleshooting, tracking and resolution.
• Monitor expenditures to meet organizational objectives and compliance.
  
• Monitor and manage assets and resources from a financial perspective.
• Responsible for business unit relationships and overseeing, managing and leveraging the entire life cycle of information technology investments in systems for a department - from defining and targeting the investment mix, to planning the portfolio structure and packaging, to communicating the portfolio plan and measuring results.
• Plays a key role in the strategic planning process for the IT organization, acting as an advisor to IT and business leaders.
• Understands how enterprise priorities link to technology investments, and the risks and benefits of specific portfolio activities.
  
• Works with the IT organization and other stakeholders to develop, prioritize, and execute the information technology and business portfolio plan.
• Analyzes portfolio performance and recommends changes in investment mix to achieve goals.
• Identifies opportunities for optimizing information technology portfolio performance to lower cost of ownership and provide a competitive advantage to the business.
• May provide training and mentoring, as well as work direction, to others on the team.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business or related field of study; Or Associate's degree in computer science or related field of study with 2 years of relevant work experience; Or High school diploma/GED with 4 years of relevant work experience.
  
• In addition to any experience required above, 5 years of relevant work experience is required.
• Procurement or Supply Chain related experience
• ERP experience (Maximo or Ariba Experience is preferred)
• Strong Communication Skills
  
• Able to work effectively with a variety of BU stakeholders