Senior Business Systems Analyst (Aspen Tech)

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.

The Planning & Optimization team under Commercial IT is seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Business System Analyst (BSA). This role is pivotal in maintaining our high standards of efficiency and productivity across various solutions, including scheduling and planning optimizations. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to analyze business requirements, design and implement system solutions, and ensure seamless integration and functionality.  The candidate will deliver results while on a product team utilizing Agile methodologies, ensuring iterative development, continuous improvement, and timely delivery of high-quality solutions.

• Leads improvement recommendations and presents effectively to senior and executive management and global teams.
• Presents and leads client meetings with the business and development teams. Communicates with senior leaders for understanding and execution of cross functional complex processes and applications to solve client requirements.
• Provides recommendations for appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.
• Partners with business teams to develop ways to investigate business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.
• Leads and serves as a senior resource on cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
• Serves as a resource to colleagues, mentors and helps improve the team’s abilities around all IT Service Management (ITSM) disciplines deployed.
• Leads the development, execution, and creation of the cross functional testing strategy communicating with all stakeholders for technology delivery.
• Leads the planning, conducting and documenting of user stories, user feedback. Effectively communicates feedback with senior leaders for technology improvement.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, or related field required.
• 5+ years of relevant experience required
• Downstream Oil & Gas experience
• The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing and optimizing petroleum supply chain operations using advanced software tools such as Aspen Unified Scheduling (AUS), Aspen Unified Planning (AUP), Aspen Petroleum Scheduler (APS), Aspen Refinery Multi-Blend Optimizer (MBO), Aspen PIMS, Aspen Supply Chain Manager (PSCP/DPO), and Aspen Plant Scheduler (PS-EO).
• Demonstrated experience with Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe Agile, to ensure effective project management, iterative development, and continuous improvement.

• 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 - 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 software.
• Specification Development - Understanding the context, stakeholders and requirements or features of a product or application and detailing the specifications around them.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field required
5+ years of relevant experience 

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