Position: ERP Business Analyst

Location: Hybrid in Brooklyn Center, MN- primarily remote but monthly twice onsite

Duration: 6+ months Contract-to-hire

Essential Functions:

Essential functions as defined are ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and not a comprehensive listing of all functions and duties performed by incumbents within this classification. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Ability to communicate with and document 3rd party application requirements.
• Drive and facilitate the 3rd party application partner, product development team, with the proven ability to provide high level requirement documentation, functional requirements, workflow diagrams, user stories, and data mappings.
• Responsible for meeting with internal stakeholders to gain thorough understanding of current business process and define problem statements to effectively provide business context to the development team.
• Define, develop, and ensure functional requirements and acceptance criteria are ready for development to start work.
• Responsible for validating requirement functionality meets the acceptance criteria and definition of done.
• Ability to drive a variety of project types including but not limited to 3rd party software implementation, integrations, and hardware/software solutions.
• Ability to query and track transactional data through integrated systems.
• Assist in gaining buy-in from stakeholders on decisions regarding product functionality and process.
• Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritizing the list of backlog items, based on the overall strategy and business objectives.
• Work with business stakeholders and 3rd party application partner to ensure the product backlog has visibility, transparency, and clear understanding of functionality and timing.
• Ensures close collaboration with the development team, when applicable.
• Facilitate in daily standups, sprint meetings and retrospectives.
• Being a member of the team, you'll help drive the projects' success by completing it on time, within budget, meeting team members' expectations and meeting the projects' goals.

Skills/Experience Required:

• Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university is required, practical experience in lieu of education is acceptable.
• 3+ years of business systems analysis experience.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.
• ERP and CRM application systems experience.
• Previous Scrum Experience preferred.
• Prior experience with Agile methodologies preferred.
• Ability to understand and build basic SQL statements.
• Project Management skills nice to have.
• Prior experience with software integration initiatives nice to have.
• Working knowledge of MS operating systems and applications.
• Ability to work in dynamic environment.
• Travel may be required up to 10% for training or conferences