Tyson Foods

Lead Analyst Applications

Posted on: 26 Mar 2021

Springdale, AR

Job Description

What is Tyson Technology?

The IT Team at Tyson Foods is building the technology of the future. Were transforming an 85-year-old company into the most modern food company in the world. Were developing technologies that are used in our offices, theyre used in our plants, in our farms, theyre used everywhere. Were building technologies that are changing the way this company works. Everything from machine learning to artificial intelligence to utilizing cutting edge tech like drones, that will help drive our business forward. At Tyson Foods were driving world class technology to revolutionize a world class company.

Check out Tyson Technology!

https://www.tysonfoods.com/technology-careers

How can I be part of Tyson Technology?

Are you ready to join an innovative team where you will have direct influence on game-changing strategies and solutions for one of the worlds largest food companies? Looking for a role where you can help guide the technology functions for business transformation? Wanting to be both strategic and hands-on? Thrive on partnering with talented colleagues and delivering as a team? If so keep reading!

This role a business facing role that will engage with leaders across the Finance organization to understand the key business drivers. Partnering with each transformation leader will be critical to the success of this role. Developing a roadmap that leverages the existing assets and driving next generation technology options is important to the transformational efforts. The team includes Analysts, Solution Leads and Project Managers and will work across the IT organization (and managed service partners) to execute projects and support activities.

Essential Duties:

Project Delivery and Process Optimization.

* Support the execution of projects using the Tyson project methodology.

* Elicit, analyze and document functional and technical requirements or user stories.

* Perform configuration within a variety of software packages.

* Develop test plans for given software releases.

* Develop and execute unit, system and integration test cases.

* Cultivate strong business relationships by demonstrating an understanding of related processes, requirements, systems and terminology.

* Maintain awareness of best practices, including processes and technology, and identify opportunities for improvement of existing functionality.

* Develop, use existing, or research new tools that improve the delivery of solutions to customers.

* Provide guidance/feedback to more junior analysts within the same team/area.

* Develop work breakdown structures.

* Estimate effort and duration for work.

* Create, maintain, and ensure quality of systems that support key Customer business processes.

* Collaborate with the functional end users, vendors, and IT peers to support applications, system integrations, and capabilities as needed.

* Document and maintain support procedures and information as needed to maintain a positive support level.

REQUIREMENTS:

Education: Requires a bachelors degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or an equivalent degree with experience equating to a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems with 6+ years of progressive experience in business environment or IT and/or advanced degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or an equivalent degree with 4 +years of progressive experience.
Experience:

* 5+ years of industry experience in Information Systems

* 5+ years of experience communicating and influencing effectively at all levels of the organization

* 5+ years of experience gathering requirements and mapping those requirements to solutions

* 5+ years of experience in SAP Sales and Distribution/Billing, SAP Accounts Receivable and FSCM HighRadius

* 2 + years of experience in SAP FICO, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets and Profitability

* SAP ABAP debugger, SAP IDOC processing and SAP UI5/Fiori

* AWS, GCP and Azure Cloud tools

* Experience with SAP BPC Embedded and Classic versions

* Experience in SAP FI/CO, Product Costing and Material Ledger

* Reporting components Analysis for Office, Power BI, BEX Query Designer, EPM and Macros.

* AWS, GCP and Azure Cloud tools

Computer Skills: Advanced general computer skills required. Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Basic knowledge of JIRA, HP Quality Center and Service Now is a plus. Strong financial acumen
Communication Skills: Ability to effectively communicate both written and verbally with customers, peers, and management required. Strong interpersonal and customer service skills required. Must be able to work cooperatively and effectively in a team environment.
Special Skills: Advanced troubleshooting skills. Ability to lead and mentor junior team members through requirements gathering, business process mapping, and system analysts. Experience leading large projects preferred.
Supervisory: No
Travel: Some travel may be required. Amount of travel will be determined by individual project requirements

Work Shift:

1ST SHIFT (United States of America)

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Tyson Foods

Springdale, AR

Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and live market hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, as well as case ready beef and pork, and fully-cooked meats; and raises and processes chickens into fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products.

It also supplies poultry breeding stock; sells allied products, such as hides and meats; and manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, snacks, prepared meals, ethnic foods, side dishes, meat dishes, breadsticks, and processed meats. The company offers its products primarily under the Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, ibp, State Fair, Gallo Salame, and Golden Island brands.

It sells its products through its sales staff to grocery retailers, grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, chain restaurants or their distributors, live markets, international export companies, and domestic distributors who serve restaurants and foodservice operations, such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals, and other vendors, as well as through independent brokers and trading companies. The company has a collaboration with IdentiGEN Ltd. Tyson Foods, Inc. was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.