Sr. IT Business Systems Analyst

C & F Industries USA - Northbrook, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Northbrook, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge, and diverse talents together to deliver important work and you'll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas. You'll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions. Our eight manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the world's transition to clean energy. The Sr. IT Business Systems Analyst knows how to drive initiatives of all sizes across the Business Function. You are a self-starting individual with an aptitude for creative and critical thinking. You use your business expertise and enjoy collaborating with partners and helping implement positive change. You envision solutions that follow good data design and create insightful data visualizations to drive impactful business decisions. You love to collaborate with techies and subject matter experts to establish the vision. You balance tradeoffs with partners between development time, usability, and performance needs. You think critically, plan and execute effectively and collaborate cross-functionally with business and IT peers. You nurture positive, professional relationships, acting as a trusted partner and a respectful challenger. CF Industries has a cloud-first IT Strategy. We've invested in the good stuff; SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Azure, ServiceNow, and Tableau and the teams are working to get all our business units integrated.

Responsibilities

• Lead solutions through the system's life cycle following through from inception to go live and beyond.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to analyze business needs and deliver creative solutions.
• Deliver functional and technical requirements to development teams.
• Advise decision makers by providing insightful data visualizations and reporting to drive impactful business decisions.
• Lead projects in consultation with IT Security, Infrastructure Team, Business Owners, and Vendors, driving projects end to end while ensuring stakeholder alignment along the way.
• Ensure that all deliverables are completed in accordance with Project Management methodology; clearly and frequently communicate the status.
• Influence the future of business Systems while engaging and participating in System / Product selection & evaluation.
• Define Scope and strategy of quality assurance to keep the business Systems current & reliable.
• Manage operational activities on projects and enhancements, including monitoring resource needs, preparing documentation, status reports, key issues and/or change controls.
• Analyze the overall health of business systems at CF through system issue tracking and cross-functional alignment.
• Develop and implement corrective actions with regard to department internal controls as necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or another related field, or equivalent related data / analytics experience.
• 7+ years of experience with strong SAP S4/HANA, HANA modeling, SQL skills.
• Exposure to cloud-based Enterprise HANA web IDE.
• Strong SAP HANA data modeling and performance optimization skills.
• Ability to design, develop data analytics solutions by sourcing data from SAP ECC, HANA and data archival systems.
• Responsible for SAP HANA modeling using various Calculation Views/dimensions and SQL Scripting, utilizing the advanced features like table functions.
• Translating Functional Specifications into Technical Specifications.
• Contribute to Enterprise Data Warehouse and Reporting Strategy.
• Ability to develop analytics and reports from an established set of data of varying complexity and calculations.
• Deep understanding of at least one analytic tool (Tableau) and familiarity with others.
• Business test planning/coordination experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with organization and time management skills.
• Ability to learn, demonstrate and apply knowledge of the business to deliver improvements in solutions and processes and better align IT Service with Business goals.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, consisting of base pay plus an incentive program available to all full-time employees.
• Comprehensive benefits package including high-quality healthcare options.
• Well-being incentive program.
• 401k, life and disability insurance.
• Generous time off (with time off to volunteer).
• Flexible Work Arrangements to support a healthy work-life balance.