IT Business Analyst – Oil and Gas
Business Functional Purpose
The D&IT Function provides Business Analysis capability, leveraging experience in a specialised business process/function. The IT Business Analyst manages the IT relationship with a specific areas of the business. Responsible for managing IT demand, gathering and documenting “system” requirements, and recommending solutions to the business. May also lead small projects.The Business Analysis discipline supports the communication, operation, configuration, integration and change management of business applications including reporting. The discipline ensures that business systems implemented follow D&IT principles, standards, and strategy.

Position Purpose
The IT Business Analyst (ITBA) has the overall responsibility of enhancing the quality of IT products and services, analyzing data to inform business decisions, and finding technological solutions to business needs. The ITBA will work with business lines to document and score functional business requirements and technical business requirements. The ITBA will utilize functional business requirement and technical business requirement scoring to assist with solution selections.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure stakeholder management throughout the business analysis process.
• Elicit and document requirements of business and technical stakeholders.
• Manage requirements lifecycle, test cases, assist with UAT where appropriate.
• Accountable for business processes modelling and re-design.
• Responsible to provide input into solution evaluation, and selection.
• Accountable for producing documentation.
• Builds strong relationships based on trust and seeks opportunities to collaborate across the matrix/organizational boundaries to achieve business goals.
• Ensure business specific roadmaps/plans are aligned with business plans and regularly updated and aligned with business stakeholders.
• Manage the process of demand intake, funding, and the expectation of business stakeholders, and alignment to IT and other service stakeholders.
• Provide input into business planning, LRP, and department budget process.
• Manage low-rigor/minor projects in-line with company standards and guidelines.
• Network with other Business Analysts, for peer review, and knowledge sharing.
• Manage projects in-line with internal project services processes.

Required Qualifications:
 

• Experience in area of business process/function specialization.

 

• Demonstrated experience leading/facilitating workshops.

 

• Ability to communicate, influence and build networks with technical/nontechnical stakeholders.

 

• Business/commercial acumen.

 

• Change management.
• Applicants must be eligible and authorized to work in the United States and must have their employment eligibility verified by a completed Form I-9.
• IIBA Level 1 (CCBA) accredited, or with experience of all BABOK knowledge areas:

 

• Business analysis planning and monitoring
• Elicitation and collaboration
• Requirements lifecycle management
• Strategy analysis (incl. BPM)
• Requirements analysis and definition
• Solution evaluation

Preferred Qualifications:
 

• IIBA Level 2 (CBAP) accredited

 

• Project management experience, and accreditation.

 

• Broad understanding and appreciation of the IT technology deployed within enterprise and field applications.

Experience:

• 5-10 years as a Business Analyst role, or role close to the business.
• Highly Regarded:
  • Previous experience working in an Oil & Gas Environment.
  • Alaska experience preferred.

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.