Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Senior Business Systems Analyst

As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter.  Whether solving for today’s challenges or tomorrow’s aspirations, you will work with the industry’s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results.   As the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business—and your career.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Business Systems Analyst with 8+ years of experience in enterprise and/or hosted products. As a Business Systems Analyst, you will be a self-starter and change agent working in an agile project team to drive your assigned products forward. You’ll engage directly with Product Owners and other subject matter experts, to elicit business requirements, use standard templates to document key requirements and key business knowledge, business processes, and engage with team members to identify the highest value change. Additionally, work closely with development team members to document existing applications.

About the Role

As a Sr. Business Systems Analyst, you will: 

• Be a Team Player – provide input into a capability roadmap outlining the themes, epics and user stories while working with product owner to prioritizing the backlog to focus on the highest impact work for your team and stakeholders.

• Be an Agile Person – work in an Agile scrum team, facilitate refinement ceremonies, while participating in the open exchange of information and viewpoints.
• Be an Effective Communicator – Ensure stories clearly communicate the stakeholder’s needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the capability.

• Take Ownership – maintain and refine a backlog: create user stories, acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with capability strategy.
• Document existing applications.
• Conduct change impact analysis for enhancements and root cause analysis for bug fixes.
• Assist with test strategies, plans and scenarios/cases.
• Use standard templates, tools and internal processes consistently.
• Remain familiar with company news, policies, products and culture. Keep mandatory training up to date.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Sr. Business System Analyst if you have:

Basic qualifications:

• Established background in an Agile environment with a proven understanding of the software development life cycle.
• 8+ years experience in business analysis techniques, such as eliciting requirements through interviews, workshops, process modeling and system or document analysis.
• Experience documenting user requirements, detailed process/program workflow diagrams, enhancement requests and repeatable bugs, and/or decomposing Features into prioritized, sprint-ready user stories for a specific product or module.
• 7+ years of experience combining analysis, design, configuration, and implementation of large-scale eCommerce and/or ERP Integrations or other integrations with a strong tax background and with experience of configuring tax software.
• Attention to detail and proven organization and analytical skills
• Ability to work independently and autonomously. Be comfortable with ambiguity and exploratory research.
• Experience in Indirect Tax technologies and subject
• Strong stakeholder engagement and management skills.
• Experience working with cross-functional and remote teams
• Good communication, presentation and time management skills.
• Knowledge of IIBA BABOK, although a IIBA CBAP/AAC certification is preferred.
• Ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams

Preferred qualifications:

• Degree in Business and/or Computer Science, or related technical field or equivalent experience
• Experience with integrating third-party enterprise tax products (e.g. Indirect Tax Determination, Taxware and/or Vertex) is highly desired.
• Good knowledge of SQL and ability to write queries against Relational Databases e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Familiarity of front-end technology such as React or Angular
• A basic understanding of data systems, system architecture and data warehouses and reporting applications.
• Ability to use SQL and Microsoft Excel to create pivot tables, graphs and charts

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