Senior IT Business Analyst

LKQ Corporation
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Posted on: 15 Mar 2021

Antioch, TN

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Job Description

Job Description

The Senior Business Analyst - IT is responsible for supporting the development and
optimization of technical solutions with a focus on continuous improvement. The Senior Business Analyst will work with the business to understand needs and capture them into requirements that are meaningful and beneficial to the IT team. These requirements will form the basis of what will become products or
enhancements to existing products for both internal staff and external customer consumption.

Essential Job Duties:

* Elicit requirements using interviews, business process descriptions, and work flow analysis todetermine best processes for external and internal operational projects.
* Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources and extrapolate underlying business needs.
* Collaborate with clients, peers, and subject matter experts to define, clarify, and validate requirements and specifications.
* Perform project estimation for BA related tasks.
* Manage project scope and quality of deliverables, identify issues and build contingency plans.
* Reconcile scope and requirements to project work to ensure business needs are met.
* Develop business requirements and work with project team to produce charters, project plans, and user stories.
* Manage day-to-day operations of multiple projects from beginning to end.
* Potential ownership of product backlog, managing scope, user story optimization, sizing, prioritizing, and updating the backlog repository.
* Could be asked to fill the role of Product Owner.
* Conduct/coordinate user acceptance assessments and testing while documenting issues and changes.
* Develop and conduct training and documentation on new procedures and systems
* Perform quantitative analysis to support the business need, selection of solution to pursue, or associated risk.
* Potential ownership of a system/application which may require on-going management by a business
representative.

Requirements

Education & Experience:

* Must have experience working on large scale projects as well as handling day-to-day operationalrequests from the business.
* Qualified applicants should possess Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, or related field or possess the equivalent professional experience in an analyst role
* Seven or more years of BA experience and/or equivalent industry level knowledge.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

* Thrives in cross-functional groups and leading collaborative engagements.
* Ability to communicate with individuals at all levels in the company while effectively managing expectations.
* Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
* Display critical thinking skills.
* Possess strong analytical abilities.
* Well established mentoring and team-building skills.
* Proactively seeks opportunities to serve in leadership roles.
* Very effective with time management.

Benefits:

* Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
* Paid Time Off
* 401k with Generous Company Match
* Company Paid Life Insurance and Long Term Disability
* Short Term Disability
* Employee Assistance Program
* Tuition Reimbursement
* Employee Discounts

Position Type

Full-time

LKQ Corporation

Chicago, IL

LKQ Corporation is an American provider of alternative and specialty parts to repair and accessorize automobiles and other vehicles. LKQ has operations in North America, Europe and Taiwan. LKQ offers its customers a broad range of replacement systems, components, equipment and parts to repair and accessorize automobiles, trucks, and recreational and performance vehicles. As of 2018, it was #300 on the Fortune 500 list. In March of 2017, Dominick P. Zarcone was selected to become the new President and Chief Executive Office.

LKQ was initially formed in 1998 through the combination of a number of wholesale recycled products businesses located in Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. We subsequently expanded through internal development and over 220 acquisitions of aftermarket, recycled, refurbished, and remanufactured product suppliers and manufacturers; self service retail businesses; and specialty vehicle aftermarket equipment and accessories suppliers. Our most significant acquisitions include:

• 2007 acquisition of Keystone Automotive Industries, Inc., which, at the time of acquisition, was the leading domestic distributor of aftermarket products, including collision replacement products, paint products, refurbished steel bumpers, bumper covers and alloy wheels.

• 2011 acquisition of Euro Car Parts Holdings Limited ("ECP"), a vehicle mechanical aftermarket parts distribution company operating in the United Kingdom. This acquisition allowed us to expand our operations into the European automotive aftermarket business.

• 2013 acquisition of Sator Beheer B.V. ("Sator"), a vehicle mechanical aftermarket parts distribution company based in the Netherlands, with operations in the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France. This acquisition allowed us to further expand our geographic presence into continental Europe.

• 2014 acquisition of Keystone Specialty, which expanded our product offering and increased our addressable market to include specialty vehicle aftermarket equipment and accessories.

• On December 22, 2015, LKQ announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the holding company of Rhiag-Inter Auto Parts Italia
• S.p.A (“Rhiag”), a leading pan-European business-to-business distributor of aftermarket spare parts for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Rhiag has operations in Italy, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland and Spain. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2016 and is subject to customary closing conditions and necessary regulatory approvals.