Business Analyst III

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At Varsity Brands, we believe every student deserves the opportunity to succeed and every educator wants to make a difference. It takes a team to make a real impact, and through our two divisions – BSN SPORTS and Varsity Spirit – and our network of 6,000+ employees and independent representatives, we are proud to partner with a wide range of educational institutions and club and professional sports to transform the student journey in SPORT and SPIRIT.

Varsity Brands is looking for a Business Analyst to join our team.

Location will be at our Farmers Branch HQ office. This is a hybrid position with the potential for full time office in the future as business needs require.

We are looking for an energetic and team-oriented individual with demonstrated success implementing technology solutions, process improvement ideas, and/or administering change management initiatives. An outstanding performer with a demonstrated ability to get things done quickly and effectively. Must be comfortable working within a technical team and with business executives to raise the bar on our project initiatives.

A truly exceptional Business Analyst will serve as an information hub. They constantly seek out, process, vet, analyze, share, and present information about how the company works or could work. They are good listeners, teachers, prefer a collaborative approach to problem solving, and have developed the technical, leadership, change management, and project management skills necessary to achieve results under tight deadlines without damaging relationships. They have the ability to discover, analyze, and present data related to business operations in a clear and concise manner.

This position will act as a conduit between the Innovation department, IT department, business units, product owners, and vendors to develop technical solutions to solve business needs. You will not do this alone. You will partner with a team consisting of business analysts, project managers, software architects, developers, and business partners to define and build great software solutions. You may mentor junior team members providing learning and growth opportunities through real day to day work.

What you will do:

• Develop applications systems requirements, testing and controls and provide support of application enhancements.
• Leads pre-project business problem elicitation, feasibility, and business case definition.
• Leads determination of key information and analysis requirements and build supporting information and decision support systems.
• Performs process modeling and process redesign.
• Lead the requirements gathering through interviews, document analysis, systems analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and decompose high-level information into details.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Translates customers high-level requirements into functional specifications for Innovation and IT developers.
• Analyzes operational data and assists with the creation of visualizations and KPIs.
• Ensures requirements traceability through testing.
• Assist in quality assurance and defining testing strategy and risks. Provide significant contributions in the testing and debugging of new software or enhancements to existing software.
• Support, maintain and/or administer implemented business system solutions, as deemed necessary
• Leads organizational change management.
• Provides project management support by removing any impediments that are preventing forward movement on projects.
• Maintain visibility and accuracy of relevant metrics that provide visibility into project status that are required by all stakeholders.
• Works well in a team environment communicating business and technical requirements to Innovation and IT resources, business groups, and vendors.
• Competent to work on all phases of systems analysis while considering business implications of the potential technologies to current and future business processes.

What you bring:

• Maintains a customer focus
• Deals effectively with ambiguity, objections, and quickly adapts to a new solution or path
• Excellent oral and written communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to analyze and reengineer business processes
• Action-oriented and works with a sense of urgency
• Utilizes data and analytics to gain understanding of the operations
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Must be a team player with strong attention to detail and able to work independently
• Proven track record of delivering timely and accurate information in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent critical thinking, problem solving, mathematical skills, and sound judgment
• Strong business acumen and ability to interface with executive management

What you need:

• Four-year degree required with field of study in Information Technology, Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Business, or related degree or equivalent experience
• Strong skills in MS Excel, Visio, MSWord, and PowerPoint, as well as project management tools (preferably Atlassian and/or Smartsheet)
• Experience (8+ years) as a Business Analyst across large, complex projects including custom software development
• Experience with ERP projects (SAP preferred)
• Strong understanding of all stages in a project lifecycle and delivery approaches, e.g. waterfall, agile, etc. (preferred)
• Experience in a manufacturing and sales organization for Apparel products, or in an Athletic Training or Sports Event management company (preferred)
• Extra credit for experience utilizing business intelligence tools such as PowerBI, or Tableau

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OUR VALUES

Service - We lead with heart. We champion community.

Passion - We love what we do. It fuels our purpose.

Integrity - We do what we promise. We own our actions and decisions.

Respect - We earn it by giving it. Because everyone deserves it.

Innovation - We never stop striving to be better. For ourselves and our community.

Transparency - We are committed to openness and honesty in everything we do.

OUR BENEFITS

We are committed to putting you and your families first. For benefits eligible roles, we offer a variety of choices and costs as well as program enhancements that align with our responsibility to elevate the employee experience. Some of our offerings include:

• Comprehensive Health Care Benefits
• HSA Employer Contribution/ FSA Opportunities
• Wellbeing Program
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Company paid Life, AD&D, and Short-Term Disability
• Generous My Time Off & Paid Holidays
• Employee Resource Groups
• St. Jude Partnership & Volunteer Opportunities
• Employee Perks including discounts on personal apparel and equipment!

Varsity Brands companies are equal opportunity employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.