Business Consultant

Location(s): Remote to Columbia, SC

Job Summary

Serves as a consultant between IT and business partners on highly complex projects; identifies and communicates business needs and translates them into business and technical requirements from which solutions can be implemented; determines if internal or external solutions exist or whether new solutions are needed; determines if these solutions impact existing work processes and systems as well as ensures proper integration; makes recommendations for buy vs. build decisions for possible solutions

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Serves as a consultant and senior-level project team member or leader working on highly complex and or highly visible projects
• Serves as liaison between the business partners and IT to provide technical solutions to meet user needs and maintain established business relationships
• Leads and or assists with project deliverables such as project initiation requests, business and technical requirements, use cases, interface specifications, business architecture models, process models, cost/benefit analysis, risk and issue logs, test plans, training plans and elevation / validation plans.
• Spearheads or leads business process modeling efforts to model complex current and future state business processes and performs gap analysis.
• Communicates complex technical concepts simply and effectively to non-technical team members
• Identifies opportunities that impact business strategy and system performance
• Conducts systems analysis with a focus on technical process models and use cases
• Collects research on the competition in terms of best practices, business processes, and procedures; pays particular attention to market strategies and product development; makes recommendations for buy vs. build decisions
• Mentors and develops junior team members into resources with higher skill sets.
• Ability to communicate complex issues and solutions to Exec./Sr. Management
• Provides testing support and analysis for defect resolution
• Performs other related duties as required

Education & Experience Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field
• Required Five or more years of professional job-related work experience in business process modeling/mapping methodologies development, and data modeling experience
• Demonstrated experience in developing projects across all phases of the project life cycle; demonstrated experience in developing functional specifications, , user interface designs/wireframes
• Advanced database skills with experience using MS Access, knowledge of how relational databases work
• Knowledge of how systems support business operations, collection of technical requirements, and modeling concepts
• Ability to apply statistical and other research methods into systems issues as required; review complex data and derive summary conclusions
• BPMN notation
• Experience in working simultaneously with technical IT resources and non-technical business resources and users

Or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Job Knowledge & Skills

• ERP/CorpDistributed