Senior Business Systems Analyst - Retail Applications

Senior Business System Analyst, Cognizant Consulting Retail Industry ABOUT US: Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with . COGNIZANT CONSULTING: Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing! The Role: Our Retail and Consumer Good Practice group is looking for a Business Analyst/Product Owner to join our journey. We're looking for someone who has experience in Retail in the area of Merchandising. We're looking for Senior Consultants who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior Consultant, this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues to clarify requirements and support delivery of effective solutions; applying technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; developing and strengthening domain knowledge and maintaining an accurate understanding of Cognizant's industry propositions and consulting capabilities; supporting business development activities of senior leaders; contributing to the development of practice initiatives or new service offerings (e.g., Strategic Control Points, development of consulting assets); and being an inspiring colleague, promoting team motivation, partnership, and ownership for projects. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below. Our solutions are in demand and we're passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now! Job Description: We are in search of a seasoned Senior Business Analyst specializing in Point of Sale (POS) or payment applications and various in-store applications. The role of the Business Analyst involves comprehending the business vision of the store operations team and collaborating with stakeholders to devise and execute an innovative roadmap of initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess a robust background in store POS systems, technical expertise, and a grasp of backend retail ERP systems. Key Responsibilities: * Comprehend, analyze, and convey business requirements to align with store systems Product owners and development teams. * Collaborate with key business stakeholders to offer recommendations and suggestions for optimizing store systems, applications, and business processes. * Gather, define, analyze, and validate application requirements and business rules, scope, functional, non-functional requirements, source to target mappings and user acceptance criteria to ensure the fulfillment of business needs. * Monitor project progress by tracking key milestones, phases, and elements within a given sprint and recommend iteration deliveries. * Analyze and understand the upstream and downstream implications of proposed changes to accurately assess impacts on surrounding systems. * Work with the Product Owner to formulate and prioritize user stories for a given initiative and participate in all related ceremonies. * Actively participate in defining test strategies and scenarios to support test execution with the QA team and business stakeholders. Qualifications: * Prior experience with POS, Payment, and retail store systems. * Knowledge of payment solutions and their integrations. * Ability to work independently and take initiative without close supervision or guidance. * Demonstrated creative and innovative 'out of the box' thinking. * Proven ability to establish relationships and build strong credibility with business teams, executive stakeholders, and external partners. * Forward-thinking and resourceful to ensure all initiatives are delivered in a cost-effective and timely manner. * Exceptional communication skills, with a focus on delivering information in a clear and concise way to multiple levels of stakeholders. * Thrives in a challenging and continuously evolving IT environment. Preferred: * Experience in a retail organization. * Familiar with retail data modeling

Created: 2024-11-10