Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Kforce has a client that is seeking a Business Analyst in Chicago, IL.
• Partner with manufacturing business leaders, operations teams, and IT stakeholders to understand current-state processes, systems, application usage, and operational requirements
• Lead discovery sessions, interviews, and workshops with stakeholders across manufacturing operations and supporting business functions
• Document current-state and future-state business processes, workflows, requirements, system interactions, and application dependencies
• Support ERP consolidation and modernization initiatives by identifying business requirements, process differences, operational dependencies, and opportunities for standardization
• Assess the existing enterprise application landscape and support application rationalization, including identifying redundant, obsolete, overlapping, or business-critical applications
• Evaluate the business criticality of applications and workloads, including their potential impact on manufacturing operations, production, supply chain, and other dependent processes
• Work with business and technology teams to assess migration readiness for applications, sites, business units, and operational functions
• Support the development and prioritization of application and workload migration waves based on business criticality, dependencies, technical readiness, and operational constraints
• Identify operational risks and dependencies that could affect ERP consolidation, cloud migration, application retirement, or technology modernization efforts
• Translate complex manufacturing and operational requirements into clear, actionable plans for technology teams, architects, program leadership, and implementation partners
• Develop business requirements, process documentation, capability assessments, gap analyses, decision documents, and executive-level presentations

REQUIREMENTS

• 8-12+ years of experience in management consulting, business transformation, business architecture, or senior Business Analyst roles
• Significant professional experience working within manufacturing or industrial environments
• Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale ERP transformation, ERP consolidation, application rationalization, technology modernization, and/or migration initiatives
• Experience documenting and analyzing: Business processes and workflows; Business and functional requirements; Application dependencies; System integrations; Operational requirements; Business criticality; Process and technology gaps
• Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, and cross-functional workshops with both business and technology teams
• Experience working with IT teams to support application or workload migration planning and sequencing
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing business processes and the technologies that support manufacturing operations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate complex processes, systems, and organizational dependencies
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively with plant/operations teams, IT professionals, program leadership, and senior executives
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, workshop facilitation, and documentation skills
• Ability to assess business and operational impacts associated with application migrations, ERP changes, and system consolidation
• Ability to translate complex operational requirements into clear requirements and actionable recommendations for technical teams
• Ability to work effectively within a complex, matrixed enterprise environment with multiple business units, sites, stakeholders, and competing priorities