Beacon Technologies is seeking a Sr. Business Systems Analyst for our client partner. Our client is initiating a department-wide effort to modernize and centralize its grant administration information systems and related processes through the development or procurement of a comprehensive Grant Administration System. This project is a critical component of the newly created Office of Grants Management (OGM) strategic goal to enhance transparency, accountability, and efficiency in the management of federal and state-funded grants across all program areas.

The Business Systems Analyst will play a key role in guiding this high-priority initiative by gathering and analyzing information from business units, IT staff, and system vendors to ensure successful system design and selection. They will document and translate business needs into functional and technical requirements, user stories, process flows, and system specifications. They will facilitate workshops, interviews, and working sessions to define current-state and future-state business processes. This role will also conduct gap analyses, data mapping, and reporting requirements gathering to support system implementation and integration with financial systems, relying on experience and judgment to accomplish project goals.

To support this complex, cross-divisional initiative, our client requires a dedicated Project Manager contractor to coordinate and oversee the work of the contractor team responsible for the planning and analysis phases of the project. These phases include:

• Gathering of system, business, and technical requirements.
• Conducting a feasibility study.
• Designing the future-state system architecture.
• Developing cost estimates for system development/procurement and long-term maintenance.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Evaluate the internal business and technical needs of an organization and recommend solutions.
• Serve as liaison between internal departments and development team.
• Define the system and functional requirements.
• Assess available technologies to create development specifications as well as detailed test cases.
• Assist with testing to analyze results.
• May play a key role in training employees on application, database, and operating systems.
• Career-level position within field. Requires experience and proficiency in discipline.
• Conducts complex work important to the organization.
• Works with minimal supervision with wide latitude for independent judgment.
• Six to nine years of experience or equivalent education.

Project Responsibilities:

• Leading stakeholder engagement sessions to elicit and prioritize business needs.
• Analyzing and documenting current-state grant administration workflows and data systems.
• Facilitating development of future-state process maps and business requirements.
• Drafting functional and technical requirement documents and use cases.
• Supporting feasibility analysis and development of system design documentation.
• Collaborating with technical teams to validate that system solutions meet business requirements.

Our client is undertaking a critical project to modernize and enhance our agency’s Grant Administration System to be used to manage the full lifecycle of state and federally funded grant programs. The existing processes and systems are outdated, relying heavily on manual workflows, spreadsheets, and disconnected tools that limit efficiency, data accuracy, and transparency. The new Grant Administration System will serve as a centralized, enterprise solution designed to:

• Streamline grant application, review, award, and monitoring processes.
• Improve data management, reporting, and decision-making through integrated dashboards and performance metrics.
• Enhance compliance with state and federal regulations related to financial management, auditing, and transparency.
• Support improved communication and collaboration between grant program staff, applicants, award recipients, and agency leadership.
• Integrate with existing financial systems to ensure seamless fund management, payment processing, and reconciliation.
• This system will ultimately improve services to external grantees while providing internal staff with the tools and data they need to efficiently manage multiple funding sources, grant programs, and performance reporting requirements.

About Beacon Technologies

Are you looking to advance your career in information technology? Beacon Technologies offers career advancement opportunities, extensive training, and excellent benefits including paying for health and dental premiums for salaried employees. In addition to providing interesting opportunities, Beacon Technologies provides that old fashioned, personal touch, so you feel like a part of the Beacon team.

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