Sr. System Analyst

Indianapolis, IN

Relocation: No

Performance Profile:

A Senior BusinesAnalyst is a junior-level professional serving as a member of a project team. This professional takes direction in testing and documenting systems or business processes/change management, and provides support on a variety of business and industry specialties. A Senior Business Analyst applies basic consulting principles and begins to develop the ability to work independently on project tasks. This position has contact with lower level members of the client staff.

Responsibilities may include:
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills, with team members, clients and counterparts.
• Builds personal expertise in a business area.
• Contributes to and/or delivers products that drive client satisfaction by performing tasks such as organizing and preparing business documentation in support of implementation of new business processes/procedures; and gathering and organizing data.
• Supports own Performance Management Process, including but not limited to, managing own time and expenses involved in work.
• May serve as a Peer Advisor for newly hired Senior Business Analyst(s).
• Applies BearingPoint Delivery Framework methodologies to work.
• Supports business development and proposal efforts by assisting with the development of written material and/or developing cost proposals.
• Supports, and may contribute directly to, engagement financial management activities.
• Participates in recruiting activities.

Key Skill Area:
• Working knowledge of at least one business field or industry
• Excellent MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision with excellent attention to detail
• Working experience in a team environment and the ability to multi-task while producing quality deliverables

Performance Profile:
• The qualified candidate will serve as client representative in briefings, meetings, and conferences.
• Conduct functional business analyst activities across the systems development life cycle.
• Produce interface specifications, user documentation, and systems/customer acceptance testing.
• Conduct client interviews and produce high quality requirements documents. These requirements will include functional capability for DoD disbursing systems and the interface requirements between these systems and SAP and Oracle Financials ERP systems.
• The qualified candidate will need to possess an understanding of the functional needs of the client. This entails the ability to review and analyze an end-to-end process, understand abstract business concepts and processes, and revise to meet the client's goals.
• The candidate will need to facilitate the clarification of functional specification and relay those specifications to internal and external stakeholders for review and acceptance.
• Throughout both the functional and implementation activities, continuously develop and maintain all required and pertinent documents, to include memorandums, agreements, and management plans.

Position-specific Requirements:
• Must have at least 8+ years of analytical experience in a business or technical environment, and have demonstrated experience in: preparing and reviewing engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other technical documentation; developing white papers, needs assessments, feasibility studies, cost benefit analyses, and flow charts; building and analyzing test plans and strategies.
• At least 8+ years’ working knowledge using enterprise architecture, different IT frameworks and related principles, as well as software improvement processes.
• The candidate will not only need problem-solving skills but should be able to see the larger picture and decipher the steps to get the client from problem to solution.
• Direct experience with business planning and execution for business continuity including implementation, post implementation support, role emphasizing configuration, testing, and project management to develop an integrated system that delivers a strategic business advantage to a client or company.
• At least 8+ years experience establishing and updating systems’ requirements.

Desired Skills:
• Knowledge of Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), and military services’ finance, accounting, and disbursing systems.
• Direct DoD, DFAS, and disbursing operational experience.
• Developed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), Interface Control Agreements (ICAs), system test strategies and scripts and other system documentation.
• Experience providing technical implementation support following system “go-live”.
• Experience supporting a project management office (PMO) for a major system implementation.

Logistics:

• Travel Requirement 10-20%

BearingPoint is a leading management and technology consulting company serving the Forbes Global 2000 and many of the world’s largest public services organizations. Our more than 17,000 passionate, experienced consultants help organizations around the world solve their most pressing challenges, day in and day out. Through our collaborative and flexible approach, we deliver practical, sustainable, measurable results that help our clients make the right strategic decisions and implement the right solutions.

The BearingPoint OSD Team is currently searching for a Systems Business Analyst