Business Analyst

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Only USC,GC (Local to MN)

Title: Business Analyst

Location: Hybrid in St. Paul, MN

Duration: 6-12+ month Contract

Job Description:

Description of Project

• The Business Analyst serves as a key liaison between business units, operations, and centralized information services to support, enhance, and optimize enterprise systems and processes. This role combines the analytical, technical, and strategic responsibilities of a Business Analyst with the systems expertise and functional leadership of a Business Systems Analyst.
• The BA/BSA is responsible for planning, designing, maintaining, and launching efficient business, financial, and operational systems that support core organizational functions. This includes analyzing business processes, identifying opportunities for improvement, implementing system enhancements, leading change initiatives, and ensuring smooth integration with other enterprise applications.
• The role also includes Agile responsibilities, such as supporting, and if necessary filling Product Owner functions, collaborating with development teams, defining features, writing user stories, and ensuring business value delivery.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, MIS, or Economics
• Five (5) years’ experience as Business Analyst or Systems Analyst
• Two (2) years’ experience performing configurations, modifications, or enhancements within enterprise business applications
• Master’s degree in business administration, Finance, MIS, or Economics may substitute for two years’ experience

Desired Skills

• Experience with large, complex SaaS vendor implementations
• Experience with large transit initiatives
• Experience with large transformation initiatives
• Exceptional soft skills and emotional intelligence to navigate at multiple levels across the organization
• IIBA Certification
• Experience creating and maintaining dashboards in Power BI to support reporting and analytics.
• Experience with Miro, Mural, Microsoft Whiteboard, and other collaboration tools.
• Experience working in waterfall, agile, and hybrid delivery environments.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise systems (e.g., HRIS, PeopleSoft Financials, or equivalent).
• Understanding of interdepartmental processes such as budgeting, procurement, HR, and finance.
• Proficiency in business process improvement, workflow optimization, and change management.
• Experience working in Agile environments and supporting Product Owner responsibilities.
• Advanced analytical skills, including process mapping, data analysis, and metrics reporting.
• Strong technical skills, including proficiency in MS Excel (pivot tables, charts), Word, PowerPoint, Access, and database management.
• Experience with SQL queries or similar reporting tools preferred.
• Ability to develop and deliver clear documentation, training, and presentations.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across all organizational levels.
• Strong problem-solving, negotiation, and decision-making abilities in complex, ambiguous situations.
• Ability to foster teamwork and promote an inclusive, respectful workplace culture.