Senior ERP Business Analyst

Chemonics sees a Senior ERP Business Analyst who will coordinate across business process owners and the Global Technology Information Division (GTID) to understand operational strengths and weaknesses, envision performance improvement opportunities, and offer ERP technical solutions for positive business outcomes. The senior ERP business analyst will assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology and manage user stories in Azure Devops. They will translate high level business requirements into functional specifications for GTI and manage changes to the specifications. They will inform GTID and the ERP product team on the direction of business. They will assist in negotiating agreements and commitments by bridging the gap between business needs, technology, and contractors. They will maintain an understanding of ERP technology trends and use this knowledge to bring solutions to enhance Chemonics' competitive edge. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.

Responsibilities include:

• Maintains an understanding of the business drivers and processes in each ERP-enabled value stream and roles of departments involved in those processes?
• Work closely with the Chemonics' value stream leaders to ideate and implement solutions that enable achievement of Chemonics' goals and enhance value stream process efficiency?
• Proactively mitigates issues and exploits opportunities to enhance functionality for continuous improvement of value stream
• ?Maintains current knowledge of technology trends, new features being released in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, and emerging technologies to enable current and evolving business outcomes across value streams
• Coordinates with the developers and supports partners on application enhancements
• Assists in business process redesign and documentation
• Supports successful evaluation of options and decision-making of application governance bodies, including creating prototypes
• Analyzes the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with Chemonics' enterprise architecture principles and future-state architecture vision
• Identifies the organizational impact and financial impact of the solutions architecture

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 8 to 10 years of experience in multiple implementations and Dynamics AX/ Dynamics 365 F&O solutions support and 2 to 3 years of relevant architecture and project management experience
• Requires advanced to expert level knowledge and understanding of infrastructure, network architecture, application design and development, systems engineering and integration.
• Experience designing solutions for various modules in Dynamics 365 for FinOps or Dynamics AX2012 required
• Experience in supporting and enhancing enterprise solutions
• Experience in technical architecture, network management, app development, middleware, database management or operations
• Experience managing in Azure Devops Experience working on issues of high complexity that require in-depth knowledge of business segments, multiple years of experience deploying finance and accounting systems
• Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture
• Experience proposing and presenting a convincing business case and product roadmap to executive management
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility and integrity

Application instructions:

Apply by July 2, 2021. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted. Candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.