Sightline Business Systems Analyst II-Supply Chain Data and Reporting

Johns Hopkins Sightline: Unleash Your Impact

The Johns Hopkins Sightline Business Modernization Project is more than just a job - it's a mission. We're tearing down walls to unleash the full potential of our people. Baltimore, ranked a top 2024 destination by the New York Times, is your backdrop as you join a dynamic and entrepreneurial team to reimagine the way Johns Hopkins works. We're not just simplifying processes and transforming technology - we're empowering people to focus on what matters most: research, teaching, patient care and community impact.

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• Thrive in fast-paced environments with daily new challenges and opportunities.
• Are passionate about simplifying complex systems to change people’s lives.
• Believe in transformation that empowers, not hinders, the front-line people.
• Have experience in process improvement, technology implementation, or project management.
• Enjoy analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Communicate clearly with a team.
• Possess a desire to grow and learn.

Joining Sightline means you’ll:

• Work with cutting-edge technology.
• Join a collaborative team of experts in higher education and healthcare.
• Build new skills with a team that encourages creativity, innovation, and personal growth.
• Gain valuable experience and expertise in process improvement, technology implementation, and change management.
• Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package that includes health insurance, retirement savings plans, telework options, and generous paid time off.

Become an architect of change and help shape the future of Johns Hopkins University and Medicine alongside a passionate team in Baltimore's vibrant hub.

Sightline is seeking a Business Systems Analyst II-Supply Chain Data and Reporting who will serve as a business function and system expert for Data and Reporting within the Supply Chain-related modules of the new ERP system. The successful candidate will be responsible for collaborating with internal stakeholders to identify and document requirements for business processes, including moderately complex processes. The Business Systems Analyst II will utilize those requirements to identify appropriate technical solutions and any associated business process enhancements for the future state system. The position will be responsible for contributing to associated testing and training activities, including documentation and execution. The Business Systems Analyst II will also be responsible for project management for smaller sub-projects within the functional area.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Gather, organize and document business, user, and functional requirements for business processes, including moderately complex processes that include multiple steps or subprocesses. Conduct stakeholder interviews gather and synthesize business process documentation and other artifacts to understand requirements and inform solutioning.
• Prioritize requirements based on key metrics as defined by the Lead Business Systems Analyst.
• Serve as a functional expert, apply system knowledge to translate business requirements into human-centered functional design specifications for moderately complex business processes. Redefine future state business processes as needed to ensure alignment and enhance efficiency within the context of the technical solution.
• Create and document test scenarios for moderately complex functions using the appropriate testing tools to validate and verify functionality. Conduct testing to ensure all delivered solutions work as expected and errors are handled in a meaningful way. Review test scenarios and documented results.
• Create detailed business process and technical specification documentation to accurately reflect and effectively communicate requirements, analysis, and solutioning to diverse stakeholder groups. Including end-users, developers, and business unit and project leaders.
• Work closely with the Change Management training team to author and maintain end-user training documentation by writing audience-appropriate materials to serve as technical and/or business process references. Assist in end-user training as needed, including leading training for moderately complex processes.
• Collaborate with the PMO to develop detailed project plans by analyzing scope and milestones for basic projects. Adhere to the defined task/project timeline and scope to ensure each phase of the project is executed in a timely fashion and delivered in accordance with software lifecycle standards.
• Lead cleanup of ERP datasets in cooperation with the Supply Chain team. Identify, develop, test and implement reports from the ERP system data for use by the Supply Chain team.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to listen and effectively synthesize information from subject matter experts; the ability to write and present clearly and concisely; and the ability to facilitate effective meetings and engage participants; and the ability to facilitate effective meetings and engage participants.
• Ability to create highly effective business analysis and project management artifacts.
• Ability to understand, analyze and document dependencies and impacts in a highly integrated system or within overlapping business processes.
• Ability to effectively work with loosely defined or high-level requirements and schedules.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft applications, especially Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.
• Ability to function effectively within a structured project management environment.
• Ability to effectively plan and execute smaller projects within the context of a larger more complex project plan.

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, HR, finance, supply chain, information systems, computer science, or related field.
• Requires six years of progressively responsible experience working in afunctional area (finance, HR, payroll, supply chain, sponsored projects) or working in systems analysis.
• Requires three years of experience as an ERP system user, with the desired skills in scoping, requirements gathering/definition, documentation, testing, training, and support.
• Requires ability to clean large data sets and create governance processes for ongoing data processes.
• Requires strong report development skills within an ERP or similar system.
• Requires experience with varied interpersonal and technical skills, along with demonstrated skills in interacting with members from all organizational levels to diagnose problems, develop, and implement that could be process or technically oriented.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• Experience working in a higher education, academic medical center, and/or health care setting.
• Experience with Workday, SAP or similar ERP system.

Classified Title: Sightline Business Systems Analyst II 
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Sightline Business Systems Analyst II-Supply Chain Data and Reporting   
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PE  
Starting Salary Range:  
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:00pm 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: Hybrid: On-site 2-3 days a week 
Department name: 60013301-Sightline 
Personnel area: University Administration