Job Description

Business Analyst (Corporate Systems)

The IT and Digital team at WESCO has an exciting opening for a fast paced, entrepreneurial, Business Analyst. The BA will be responsible for working with internal management staff, on the project management and implementation of complex/customized applications, to ensure quality of enhancements/reports and providing complete test coverage of application functionality for corporate and business technology systems

Responsibilities:

Frequent interaction with Business Users, Developers, Consultants and Managers, in order to ensure delivery of a quality finance /corporate systems application to users
Participate in full SDLC methodology and related quality assurance processes
Gathering and Data Mapping of user requirement
Prioritize requirements, engage in business analysis activities and created detailed specifications to be used by development teams
Create reports and analyses on-demand for IT leaders
Review, analyze and validate development objects before coordinating with users to test and certify changes
Review requirements specifications and technical design documents to provide complete test coverage of application / enhancement functionality
Collaborate with development and QA on deployment
Identify, report and provide defect follow-through as necessary to complete the testing cycle
Create and execute intermediate level database queries
Communicate test cases, plans and statuses effectively
Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
Ability to work independently with an eye toward communication with both dev teams as well as business users for corporate systems
Ability to set priorities and multi task in a fast paced environment

Required experience for this role:

5+ years of experience of Vendor Management experience at the Director level or higher.
5+ years of experience managing vendor performance.
5+ years of experience, and demonstrated experience with, vendor and contract negotiations.
Bachelor’s degree from accredited university required.
Project management certifications considered a plus.

Skills:

4+ years of experience as a business analyst / testing financial applications and /or packaged applications
Bachelor degree in business, computer science, technology, or other technical field
Intermediate Oracle/SQL query skills + MS Office and Project preferred
Must possess knowledge of corporate systems, business acumen as well as application implementation capabilities and experience
Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills
Excellent communication skills
Experience desired with ERP applications especially in corporate systems
Experience working in an Agile development process and QA methodologies would be a plus
Database and query + Excel / MS Office skills
BI Publisher/Tableau experience desirable
Experience of working in a multi-currency, global organization is a plus
Financial industry experience with Finance and/or accounting knowledge is beneficial

Physical Requirements:

Office based role. Generally comfortable setting with low noise and moderate physical demands.
Frequent sitting at desk. Use of office equipment.
Occasional lifting, walking, bending. Max lift demand 25lbs.