Senior Business System Analyst / BF3863

Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and a leader in educational technology and children’s media. Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children's books, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys. The Company distributes its products and services through a variety of channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs and school-based book fairs, retail stores, schools, libraries, television networks and the Company’s Internet Site, www.scholastic.com

Position Description:

Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and a leader in educational technology and children’s media. Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children's books, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys. The Company distributes its products and services through a variety of channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs and school-based book fairs, retail stores, schools, libraries, television networks and the Company’s Internet Site, www.scholastic.com JOB SUMMARYCollaborate with business and technology teams to capture the application requirements, perform fit-gap analysis and author the detailed functional designs by integrating detailed process, data and application components into an end-end solution. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Provide functional and technical subject matter expertise on the capabilities and integration of the business system(s) and/or given PeopleSoft CRM module (Sales, Support, Self-Service).2. Collaborate with business and technology leads to capture and document requirements for all deliverables including for business cases, process, analysis, functional requirements, and testing.3. Facilitate joint planning, application, and functional design sessions to support cross-team alignment.4. Assure that the interface and conversion functional design meets overall business process requirements and technology standards by conducting solution design reviews.5. Analyze findings to develop an end-to-end solution, applying business process re-engineering with use of new systems or enhancements to existing applications that meet the needs for assigned business area.6. Proactively identify data issues and collaborate with technology lead to mitigate the risks by proposing data rationalization and clean up strategies.7. Build use cases and models that clearly depict process flows relating to specific requirements using a combination of graphical information and text in natural language to convey business, system and functional requirements to both business and technical staff. 8. Clarifies high-level business goals, turning them into specifications used by developers and QA testers to build and test applications.9. Provide leadership, guidance, and training/mentoring to the project team for functional implementation of new system enhancements.10. Communicate with development teams to direct the development of system specifications through detailed analysis of business11. Work with technical team members through the detailed design phase to ensure proper interpretation of business requirements and ensure that future systems will meet requirements.12. Work with technical team for change management roll-out. Keep track of all change management requests, assignments, testing and communications to users.13. Supports development and QA teams during development and test phases; answers questions and provides more detail on specifications on an as-needed basis.14. Help the project team understand how the work being done relates to all area and projects.

Qualifications:

REQUIRED SKILLS• 5+ years experience with an SDLC, system development methodologies, requirements gathering, documentation of procedures and technical specification writing.• 3+ years knowledge of delivered PeopleSoft CRM 8.99.0 functionalities, its business processes and underlining setup and configurations. (PeopleSoft CRM 8.99.0 for Security, Sales, Support Helpdesk, Self-Service and Order Capture & Management)• Has significant PeopleSoft CRM implementation and upgrade support experience as well as patch/fixes analysis, analyze production architecture and process methodologies.• Have demonstrable experience in accurately and efficiently specifying functional requirements for complex online applications.• Possess broad knowledge of Internet technologies, including content management tools, e-commerce engines, profiling and personalization systems, and community and customer service applications.• Possess at least five years of experience in an interactive development environment.• Possess excellent consulting, interpersonal, communications/presentation skills, project management knowledge and can relate to clients and development personnel equally well.• Strong analytical, problem solving and debugging skills and a strong understanding of analytical process; including requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation.• Experience in Logical Data and Process Modeling.• Experience in project management, time and budget scheduling and resource allocation.• Experience with standard software development methodologies, RUP, UML, SDLC.• Experience with modeling and requirements management tools (e.g. Visio, Caliber RM, Together, Rational Rose).• PS Query, Crystal Report, XML Publisher, PeopleTools 8.45+, PS workflowDESIRED SKILLS• PeopleSoft CRM 8.9.9.0 functional certification• Formal Training in Business Analysis practices, preferably with an International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) certified training vendor• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)• PMP® certification • Knowledge of e-commerce principles and web technologies.• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis techniques is a plus. • Experience with automated testing applications, preferably Borland® SilkTest®