Senior Business Systems Analyst, RPT Application Management

Summary

CHS has an exciting opportunity in our Information Technology group. We are looking for a Senior Business Systems Analyst to join our growing team and provide support for our Energy Refineries, Pipelines and Terminals (RPT) business. You must have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, be detail oriented, able to work in a team environment and independently, and have the ability to solve complex problems.

To be considered for this position, qualified candidates must live in the greater McPherson/Wichita, KS area in order to work a flexible hybrid schedule in the CHS refinery office (3-days per week).

Responsibilities

• Understand industry issues and trends, and present technical solutions that provide value to our business partners.
• Analyze business strategy and user needs, document specifications, and translate business objectives into proper system requirement specifications.
• Guide business customers through business case development for new applications/functionality, including cost / benefit analysis and risk / impact analysis.
• Deliver value through realization of benefits, avoidance of cost, identify new opportunities and modernizing the organization.
• Proactively maintain an understanding of the business processes.
• Focus on continuous improvement for both the business process and the underlying technologies and system support.
• Gather requirements into user stories to engage with teams for development, QA and implementation.
• Coordinate system development, QA and user acceptance testing of projects.
• Support, test, and enhance moderately complex information systems and develop adequate error management functionality within assigned applications.
• Provide new user training on supported applications as requested. 
• Provide overall application support and ownership for the applications in the business portfolio.
• Provide end-to-end IT coordination for all IT related activities.
• Support activities for assigned applications and assure secondary resources are defined and are well trained to support the application.
• Minimize application support load by refining error management and moving initial triage to the 1st level support staff.
• Work closely with all IT organizations and drive projects to successful completion.
• Work closely with other Business Units to identify and deliver Enterprise value. 
• Perform other responsibilities as needed or assigned.

Minimum Qualifications (required)

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field (or equivalent years of training, work experience and education)
• 4+ years of Information Technology and IT Business Systems Analysis experience to include the following:
  • Requirements definition
  • Business process definition 
  • Strong documentation
  • Development and support of integrated business applications 
  • Implementation and support of applications
  • End-to-end IT coordination and project support experience 

Additional Qualifications

• Experience working with Grain, Energy or Agronomy business applications
• General knowledge of system development methodologies
• Knowledge of importing data for use in report software, spreadsheets, graphs, and flow charts
• Experience with Microsoft development platforms including DevOps 
• Understanding of the organization's goals and objectives and how technology solutions impact the organization
• Business Intelligence and Power Platform experience
• Experience working with GIS, COTS and EH&S applications 
• Business Analysis and/or Project Management certification 

Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse.