Associate Business Systems Analyst

at  Marathon Petroleum Company LP

An exciting career awaits you
At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.
Position Summary
This position offers an excellent opportunity to collaborate with business partners, product/platform owners, and subject matter experts to solve complex business problems and deliver value to MPC. This role is vital to the support, development and enhancement of Finance systems and processes. It will also ensure solutions are reliable, secure, and aligned with enterprise technologies. Responsibilities include driving critical projects, delivering value-added enhancements, gathering and documenting business requirements, and coordinating user testing. The role may involve process documentation, system configuration & integrations, and report design. A major opportunity with this role is learning and supporting the functionality of applications across the Corporate Functions organization to allow for effective planning of future value-add work. Possible efforts could include: Data products, Financial reporting, Planning and Forecasting, Performance analysis.
This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Key Responsibilities

• Assists in the definition of business processes to measure, analyze, improve and control the process being reviewed.
• Works closely with the business and development teams to gain an understanding of business partners functional and non-functional requirements, provide feedback, and communicate changes.
• Analyzes and documents business and user requirements, creating documentation of functional requirements specifications.
• Applies understanding of systems and technologies to draft recommendations for appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.
• Assists with the continuous iterative exploration and investigation of business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.
• Understands and assists in cost-benefit analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and document knowledge for Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Understands and executes the basic IT service management practices around incident, Change, Problem and Solution Development Lifecycle (SDLC) delivery methodologies including basic configuration tasks.
• Assists in the analysis of test case development and execution in support of technology delivery.
• Assists in the planning, conducting and documenting of user stories, user feedback, supporting development of prototypes and wireframes.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent experience.
• 0-2 years of relevant experience

Skills
Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
Analytical Thinking - Strong problem-solving skills to identify architectural challenges, analyze requirements, evaluate options, and propose effective solutions.
Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
Business Analysis - Analyzing current business state within the context of future business state expectations and determining whether new business strategies are needed to address existing issues or meet new needs. Estimating the level of effort to enhance or expand current business strategies.
Business Partner Relations - The process of acting as a trusted advisor and building strong relationships with colleagues and the business to drive business performance.
Business Process Modeling & Redesign - Execution of key business process with the objective of achieving a quantum jump in performance measures such as return on investment (ROI), cost reduction, and quality of service.
Change Management - The process of controlled identification, planning and implementation of required initiatives to prepare, support and help individuals, teams and organizations to navigate through change.
Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
Incident Management - Ensuring that any incidents affecting processes and performances of relevant technology services or systems are managed appropriately to mitigate risk and minimize disruption.
Quality Assurance (QA) - The process to ensure organizational activities are designed to ensure that an organization is providing the best possible product or service to customers.
Requirements Management - The process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change while also communicating to relevant stakeholders.
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - A process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high quality softwares.
Specification Development - Understanding the context, stakeholders and requirements or features of a product or application and detailing the specifications around them
As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.
Location:
Findlay, Ohio
Additional locations:
Job Requisition ID:
00013305
Location Address:
539 S Main St
Education:
Employee Group:
Full time
Employee Subgroup:
Regular
Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision-making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant,
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. Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation. Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at
https://mympcbenefits.com
.The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disabilit

• Assists in the definition of business processes to measure, analyze, improve and control the process being reviewed.
• Works closely with the business and development teams to gain an understanding of business partners functional and non-functional requirements, provide feedback, and communicate changes.
• Analyzes and documents business and user requirements, creating documentation of functional requirements specifications.
• Applies understanding of systems and technologies to draft recommendations for appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.
• Assists with the continuous iterative exploration and investigation of business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.
• Understands and assists in cost-benefit analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and document knowledge for Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Understands and executes the basic IT service management practices around incident, Change, Problem and Solution Development Lifecycle (SDLC) delivery methodologies including basic configuration tasks.
• Assists in the analysis of test case development and execution in support of technology delivery.
• Assists in the planning, conducting and documenting of user stories, user feedback, supporting development of prototypes and wireframes