Job Responsibilities
The Technical Business Analyst partners with Finance and Operations to define business requirements, design solutions, and support the full lifecycle of enterprise business applications, including implementation and post-implementation enhancement and stabilization. This role serves as a liaison between business stakeholders, IT, and external partners, ensuring solutions are practical, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.
- Lead requirements gathering sessions and translate business needs into clear functional specifications and system solutions
- Partner with Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and Sales teams to design, improve, and standardize business processes
- Translate business needs into functional specifications, system configurations, and enhancements within business applications
- Support business application modules through configuration changes, enhancements, and defect resolution in coordination with IT and managed services
- Support testing activities (SIT/UAT), including test case definition, execution, and defect tracking
- Develop and maintain process documentation, job aids, and best practices
- Communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders
- Support change management efforts including training development, communications, and user adoption activities
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, information technology, or related field
- 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or similar role, preferably in manufacturing or chemical industries ideally with MRP exposure
- Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes across Finance, Procure to Pay, Supply Chain, and/or Manufacturing
- Experience with financial processes preferred:
- Month-end close
- Financial reconciliation
- SOX controls
- Audit support
- Public Company environment
- Experience with costing concepts (e.g., inventory, average/standard costing) and account reconciliation processes, with the ability to trace transactions from subledger through to General Ledger for analysis and troubleshooting
- Strong SQL understanding with the ability to query, analyze, and validate data across enterprise systems; experience writing complex queries, troubleshooting data issues, performing data reconciliation, and supporting business process analysis and reporting.
- Proven experience writing functional requirements and supporting testing cycles
- Ability to translate business needs into clear, actionable solutions
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
Koppers Inc. and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other category or characteristic protected by federal law, state or local law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, information technology, or related field
- 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or similar role
- Experience in manufacturing or chemical industries (ideally with MRP exposure)
- Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes across Finance, Procure to Pay, Supply Chain, and/or Manufacturing
- Experience with financial processes: month-end close, financial reconciliation, SOX controls, audit support, public company environment
- Experience with costing concepts (inventory, average/standard costing) and account reconciliation tracing transactions to General Ledger
- Strong SQL skills: querying, analyzing, validating data, writing complex queries, troubleshooting data issues, and data reconciliation
- Proven experience writing functional requirements and supporting testing cycles (SIT/UAT)
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
What We Do
Koppers, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a global wood preservation technology company that creates safe and environmentally responsible solutions to solve our customer’s most important challenges. Our products and services are used in a variety of niche applications in a diverse range of end-markets including railroad, specialty chemical, utility, residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber and construction industries. With more than 2,100 employees, we maintain a global manufacturing and distribution network, with facilities in North America, South America, Australasia, China and Europe. Koppers is committed to living a culture of Zero Harm that places the care of our people, our environment and our communities first at all times. The company is also a member of the American Chemistry Council and dedicated to adopting its Responsible Care® initiative at all of our locations worldwide.
