Business Analyst – IT Support Center
About the role
The Business Analyst drives the continuous evolution of the technology, processes, and digital experiences that support our employees and customers. This role serves as a strategic partner between Support Center operations, ServiceNow platform teams, and business stakeholders, helping transform business challenges into scalable solutions that improve service delivery and operational performance.
Responsibilities
- Develops technical specifications in alignment with defined functional requirements.
- Interprets and documents business partner needs into functional requirements.
- Reviews application problems: informing IT's business partners of status and expected resolutions.
- Serves as a liaison between business partners and application development team members to analyze, document and validate functional requirements.
- Designs screens, reports, and dataflow to align with business needs.
- Documents and tracks business application request lifecycles; ensuring priorities, changes and issues are managed for IT application development.
- Tracks, maintains, and retains documentation that supports the adherence to IT standards, processes, and procedures.
- Clears and documents process, policy, and/or procedural changes for development staff and for IT business partners.
- Ensures that the appropriate approvals and documentation for change control and problem management are retained.
- Provides training, documentation, and support for IT’s business partners for system changes and/or new developments.
- Documents data flows through applications; demonstrating system functionality.
- Creates and executes test plans for small to mid-sized system changes.
- Affords assistance with business partner testing efforts and test plan creation, running programs and producing reports to enable business partners testing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Healthcare Informatics, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Two (2) or more years of Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Process Analyst, or related experience.
- Experience with ServiceNow, with strong preference for ITSM and Knowledge Management expertise.
- Broad ServiceNow platform experience is a plus.
- Experience gathering, documenting, and validating business and functional requirements.
- Experience translating business needs into technical requirements and user stories.
- Knowledge of IT Service Management (ITSM) principles and support center operations.
- Experience participating in software testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and validation activities.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing requests and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including process documentation and presentation development.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams.
- Experience documenting workflows, process maps, and business procedures.
- Ability to analyze data and identify trends, opportunities, and process improvement recommendations.
Qualifications
- Preferred qualifications include:
- Experience supporting an IT Support Center, Help Desk, Service Desk, or Customer Support organization.
- Knowledge of ITIL frameworks and service management best practices.
- Experience with workflow automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience creating reports, dashboards, and performance metrics.
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, or other project delivery methodologies.
- Experience supporting chatbot, self-service, or digital support channel enhancements.
- Familiarity with reporting and analytics tools such as Power BI or ServiceNow Performance Analytics.
- Experience leading small-to-medium process improvement or technology implementation efforts.
- ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA) or other ServiceNow certifications preferred.
Pay
This position is eligible for remote work; however, local candidates are strongly preferred, as occasional onsite attendance may be required for team meetings, workgroup sessions, and other collaborative activities.
Schedule
This role primarily supports operations between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Occasional flexibility outside of normal business hours may be required to support project implementations, system deployments, and go-live activities.