Supply Chain Systems Analyst Position Summary
The Systems Analyst is a long-term contract opportunity with the potential to conversion perm at a company recognized as a top place to work. The Systems Analyst role serves as a technical liaison between multiple business units and technology teams to define systems relationships, data flows, technical functions, and features of products, and implement new functionality for the Oracle SCM Portfolio. This position will document stakeholder requirements, refine requirements for delivery teams to implement, and at times make data and technical changes to system in support of product development or other technology projects. The Systems Analyst will coordinate and interact with internal Tech development and shared services teams, vendors, portfolio teams, and architecture teams to ensure requirements are understood and capable of being implemented. This is mostly a technology-facing role, requiring excellent technical and analytical skills. The Oracle ERP & SCM technology team works alongside our business partners to implement or enhance Oracle financial modules. As a systems analyst, you will be responsible for working with our stakeholders to define current state system or business processes, documenting data and system flows, refining integration patterns, or making recommendations to system or process improvements. This is a great opportunity to work with an innovative project team to build and support the rollout of Oracle products and offerings. Some travel may be required during implementation periods.
Supply Chain Systems Analyst Primary Qualifications
- Must live within 2 hours of Knoxville, TN.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse group of team members, including executives, managers, end users across a variety of business unites, Technology professionals, and subject matter experts.
- Proven ability to document system integration patterns or other general system architecture.
- Proven ability to translate stakeholder requirements into technical specifications that can be used by various technical teams to produce a solution.
- Intermediate knowledge of application development and design principles.
- Intermediate to advanced data analysis skills.
- Proven ability to produce data flows, identify data relationships, perform data transformation activities, and ensure data integrity across systems.
- Proven ability to collaborate with Quality Assurance professionals and development teams to review test cases, perform system integration testing, and facilitate user acceptance testing.
- Expert ability to elicit report requirements, understand the data elements to design them and how to perform the validation to ensure it represents the operational need
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong ability to work independently and effectively within time constraints and changing priorities.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite: Including Intermediate in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical and business experience.
Supply Chain Systems Analyst Desired Skills
- Experience with processing mapping, data mapping, technical documentation and design
- Experience with introducing new technology features and functionality to user groups.
- Experience improving business or systems processes for efficiency and/or cost savings.
- Experience with developing, maintaining, and executing a change management strategy and plan which includes stakeholder management, communications, training, and monitors overall organizational readiness.
- May be responsible for project initiation, planning, and implementation.
- Advocate for process changes to business stakeholders and technical professionals to support future-state design process improvements, and new products / platforms.
- Provide input to leadership for the implementation of process improvement opportunities by identifying potential improvements, mapping out process changes, obtaining buy-in and approval, refining requirements and scope, and proactively communicating project capabilities to business leaders, stakeholders, technical professionals, and users.
- Accounting background or financial expertise is an advantage.
- Share knowledge through formal discussions and/or presentations to large groups
- Experience is Supply Chain Management and manufacturing processes