FUNCTIONAL BUSINESS ANALYST - SENIOR

DESCRIPTION

The Functional Business Analyst – Senior partners with business functions to define, analyze, document, and communicate objectives, business requirements, and priorities for information systems and solutions. The role closely collaborates with application and technical experts to support solution design, implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of information systems, ensuring alignment with business goals and enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities Business Analysis & Requirements Management

• Lead engagement with business teams to define and document success criteria for medium to large initiatives within a single organization.

• Elicit, analyze, and document functional requirements across all five business aspects—process, information, event, socio-political, and location.

• Gather and document non-functional requirements, ensuring alignment with business needs.

• Conduct requirements management activities, ensuring change impacts are assessed, communicated, and approved by relevant stakeholders.

Solution Assessment, Design & Validation

• Lead or participate in solution assessment and validation to ensure designs meet functional and technical specifications.

• Review test plans, testing approaches, and participate in testing to ensure solutions meet both functional and non-functional requirements.

• Conduct impact analysis for major requirements, enhancements, and development activities impacting the Oracle PIM application.

• Perform problem analysis and escalate complex issues for additional resolution.

• Support solution design reviews and documentation aligned with Cummins Software Development Lifecycle, compliance, governance, and security requirements.

Oracle PIM Systems & Data Management

• Provide expertise and guidance for Oracle PIM applications and related interfaces.

• Address data analysis needs for business process re-engineering, integrations, and future enhancements.

• Prepare functional specification documents and assist with the creation of technical requirement documents for ongoing and future projects.

• Perform testing, quality assurance, and validation for Oracle PIM-related business process changes.

• Coordinate design changes and major enhancements related to Oracle PIM and its connected systems.

• Offer recommendations for new investments, Oracle PIM product capabilities, and system strategy enhancements.

• Business process and business impact analysis, As-Is and To-Be process analysis

• Fit Gap analysis and documenting As-Is Process Mapping, To-Be Process Mapping

• Build high level solution design for various interfaces for PIM integration with third party upstream and downstream applications

• Creation of architecture diagram for As-is and To-be landscape

• Perform functional configuration setups in dev, test and production environments of Oracle PIM.

• Building test scripts, execution of functional test plan, system integration testing, conducting user sessions to demonstrate the solution, providing support during UAT, addressing infant care issues

• Issue logging and prioritization for issues encountered during testing cycle SIT, UAT and infant care support

• Effort estimations analysis

• Ensuring quality and timeliness of activities related to design, build, test and implementation

• Coordinate with multiple vendors from geographically distributed teams for successful development, testing and deployment of project

Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration

• Build strong relationships with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

• Act as an escalation point for moderately complex issues.

• Coach and mentor less experienced business analysts.

• Foster effective collaboration and communication using Business Relationship Management practices.

External Qualifications and Competencies

Core Competencies

• Balances Stakeholders – Anticipates and responds to the needs of multiple stakeholders.

• Communicates Effectively – Delivers clear, audience-tailored communication across various modes.

• Strategic Mindset – Sees future possibilities and shapes strategies accordingly.

• Business Need Definition – Defines business outcomes to justify resource investments.

• Project Issue & Risk Management – Identifies, assesses, and manages risks and issues.

• Values Differences – Appreciates and leverages diverse perspectives and cultures.

Experience

• At least 5 – 7 years of relevant work experience in Oracle Pim business analysis, functional consulting, data management, or related areas.

• Experience with Oracle PIM, supply chain processes, and cross-functional requirement gathering is required.

Additional Responsibilities Unique to this Position

Skills & Competencies

Technical & Functional Skills

• Oracle PIM Expertise: Deep knowledge of Oracle PIM functionalities, master data attributes, and related business processes. Experience with Oracle EBS R12.2.13 is preferred.

Good Hands on Knowledge of Oracle Modules

• Product Management

• Purchasing and Procurement

• Supply Chain Management

Thorough Knowledge of PIM Module

• Functional expertise in Oracle MDM PIM features such as

• Item Catalog Categories (ICC)

• User Define Attributes (UDAs)

• Import Workbench

• Setup Workbench

• Item Templates

• Import Formats

• Role Based Security

• Business Rules

• Audit Trail workflow

• Change management and Change Orders

• Value Sets & Lookups

• Inventory and BOM (Bill of Materials)

• Inventory Org and Operating Unit Setup

• Data Management: Strong understanding of data management systems, tools (Oracle PIM and related), and master/transactional data utilities.

• Data Analysis : Strong knowledge of data analysis tools such as SQL.

• Business Process Knowledge: Significant experience with supply chain business processes.

• Microsoft 365 Proficiency: Advanced skills in Excel, Access, and collaborative tools.

• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis: Skilled in using business analysis toolkits and modeling across the five business aspects.

• Solution Design & Fit Analysis: Ability to break down systems into components, ensuring holistic fit with business and technical requirements.

• Solution Validation Testing: Experience with Software Development Lifecycle standards and validation practices.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).

QUALIFICATIONS

• Solution Validation Testing: Experience with SDLC standards and validation practices.work timing - 12-9 PM IST.

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