RePower Program: IT Business Analyst

At Cummins, we recognize the decision to come back into your desired career after an extended career break can be intimidating.  We value your diverse background, education, and experience and believe that we can help Power Your Potential as you make the return. 

RePower, our return-to-work program, is designed specifically for candidates like you:  people who have 5 years of professional work experience and an employment gap of 2 years for a variety of reasons and are now ready to return to the workforce.  The program supports re-engagement of skills – through fulfilling work assignments; training, coaching, and development; and a sense of community and networking that cohorts provide.

Our six-month, paid, Hybrid in Columbus, IN and benefitted returnship is an opportunity to use your specialist expertise, interests, and abilities on meaningful projects.  Successful participants may be eligible for full-time employment opportunities upon completion of the program

Job summary

This role will partner with business functions to define, determine, analyze, document and communicate the objectives, business requirements and priorities for information systems and solutions; works with application and technical experts on the solution design, implementation, support, maintenance and enhancement of the information systems.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Leads the effort, working with the business, to define and document what constitutes business success for medium to large size initiatives within a single organization.
• Elicits, analyzes, and documents functional requirements across the five aspects (process, information, event, sociopolitical, and location), as appropriate for the large initiative. May either lead or work as part of a team to gather requirements.
• Elicits, analyzes, and documents non-functional business requirements
• Leads or conducts requirements management activities, as necessary, ensuring that the impact of changes are well understood and approved by the appropriate stakeholders within the organization.
• Leads or conducts solution assessment and validation to ensure that functional and technical specifications meet the identified business needs within the organization
• Reviews test plans and testing methodology to mitigate risks and participates in testing the solution to ensure the solution meets functional and non-functional requirements within the organization
• Conducts problem analysis as needed. Escalates complex issues for additional analysis and resolution as appropriate. Acts as a point of escalation for moderate to difficult problems.
• Develops positive relationships with both the business and other functions involved in downstream technical processes
• May coach and mentor less experienced business analysts

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Intermediate level of relevant work experience required. 3 years of experience.
• Will eventually develop into SME (Subject Matter Expert) primarily own key Supply Chain (SC) & Operations & engineering IT Applications with a focus on New Power Business Unit (NPBU) End to End needs and will lead important transform implementations of applications such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning/Inventory Management Systems) - PLEX/Oracle, Maximo, CAD/PLM software - Solidworks, Windchill etc.
• Experience with software Topology, Architecture, Software/Hardware consolidation, Run cost reduction efforts, Mange Change projects for all NPBU sites
• Will ensure (at site level) effective coordination, Planning, Reporting, Compliance, Information Security, IT Communications to NPBU’s SC projects & Business Stakeholders
• Experience with IT Strategy, Systems Roadmap to align with Functional IT solutions & help NPBU to standardize systems capabilities
• Experience with IT adherence to necessary Information Security, Controls, and Compliance requirements from SC Applications standpoint
• Experience providing 2nd level IT application support to NPBU supply chain applications as needed
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Strategic mindset - Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Business Need Definition - Defines the business outcome that the proposed work will provide using the Business Analysis Toolkit (modeling the five aspects and creating use cases) to justify investment of resources (people, time, finances).
• Business Analysis Planning - Identifies the activities needed to conduct business analysis considering the five business aspects, level of detail, and approach for eliciting requirements to plan for resources and techniques to document the business needs and solution characteristics.
• Requirements Elicitation - Discovers and documents functional and non-functional requirements using the Business Analysis Toolkit (modeling the five aspects and creating use cases) to effectively communicate the business needs and solution characteristics for solution design.
• College, university, or equivalent degree in Information Technology, Business or a related subject required.

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Compensation and Benefits

Compensation for this role is $7,500/month (subject to applicable withholdings), plus benefits such as health and wellness while in the returnship program.

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At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates right to work using E-Verify. Cummins will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.