Flavorchem specializes in creating and manufacturing flavor and color solutions for the food and beverage industries. We are able to form strong partnerships because we begin with a solid foundation. By listening, asking questions, and really getting to know your company and the goals you strive for, we gain insight into your brand and an understanding of your customers. It’s no surprise, then, that our customers include top food and beverage brands that are well-recognized throughout the world. Whether your company is brand new with big aspirations or well established and seeking to enhance your brand, Flavorchem pledges to deliver the dedication on which we’ve built our reputation.

•  Our employees are dedicated to providing you with superior service and support. In addition to your sales representative, a personal customer service contact will be assigned to your account. A personal, technical contact can also be assigned to your account for additional support through the flavor development and optimization process. 
•  Our customers receive preferential treatment that includes fast service and turnaround times for orders and samples, technical information requests, technical support, and marketing information.
•  We work to help reduce our customer’s costs through contract negotiations and through our network of valued suppliers.
•  We share our technology and market intelligence with our customers and pass along the information that is relevant or useful to their brand.

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Industry: Food & Beverages
Company Size: 201-500 employees

Flavorchem Corporation

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**Role Description **

The IT Business Systems Analyst (BSA) will help solve business/system challenges through leading discovery, information gathering and data analysis efforts. The BSA plays a critical role in developing business requirements, configuring, building, testing, certifying, installing, and maintaining all changes and modifications to supported applications, including the company ERP system. The BSA will be responsible for analyzing and documenting existing processes and requirements and may assist in business process redesign as needed. The BSA will work closely with business functional areas and other IT team members to support the various applications. The BSA will be instrumental in assisting colleagues across levels to make informed business decisions from a functional/technical perspective and drive efficiencies. Strong technical knowledge and experience in development, configuration, and support of MES/ERP systems is essential.

Salary Range: 75k - 90k

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities **

- Develops and maintains a working relationship and understanding of business operations and system interfaces throughout the company.

- Serves as the primary liaison between IT and assigned business functional areas.

- Assists with requirements gathering, specification development, test plan development and execution through interviews, workflow analysis and/or facilitated discussions with others.

- Assist in evaluating business needs, research and perform impact analysis of new requirements or changes.

- Gathers, analyzes, and reports on data to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and architect business solutions that leverage ERP capabilities.

- Documents business processes and/or system functionality. Develops and maintains the corporate knowledge base for ERP and ancillary applications and associated environments.

- Serves as an expert on the functional configuration, capabilities, and usage of the company ERP system.

- Maintains application configuration, performs testing and troubleshooting to provide functional and technical support of the organization's ERP and its ancillary systems.

- Supports the design, build and testing of ERP configurations, new reports, workflows and 3rd party integrations.

- Develops training plan and provides ongoing training to users as needed.

- Develops test cases and performs comprehensive functional testing.

- Acts as the escalation point for help desk cases to ensure timely and accurate closure of issues.

- Communicates functional and technical issues with vendors.

- Assists with meeting planning, note taking, and follow-up tasks.

- Follows change control procedures and maintains proper documentation.

- Demonstrates strong customer services skills and a calm, positive, professional demeanor to accurately identify and resolve user issues.

- Strives to determine root cause of problems, identifies resolutions and coordinates fixes through completion.

- Keeps stakeholders informed of the progress of work and resolution of outstanding issues and tasks.

- Assists in the planning, coordination, and implementation of projects.

- Actively monitors new and emerging technologies, trends, issues, and solutions to remain current of developments in the industry.

- Properly dedicates time and energy to accomplish goals, tasks, and assignments with a willingness to do what it takes to get things done correctly.

- Develops relationships with teammates, project teams, business stakeholders, actively listens, deals honestly and effectively with others and is seen in a positive light by all.

- Delivers quality work on time, translates planning into action, proactively monitors and controls task status by collecting and analyzing task data to anticipate and address barriers, appropriately communicates, and resolves or escalates any problems that arise.

- Upholds the security and confidentiality of documents and company data.

- Self-starter, able to work well with others, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing.

- Maintains excellent communication skills.

- Provides support as needed outside of normal business hours.

- Participates in 24x7 production support as needed.

- Works both independently and in a team-oriented collaborative environment.

- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

**Qualifications **

- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field. Equivalent experience will be considered.

- 3+ years of professional working experience in technology space as a Business Systems Analyst.

- 1+ years of experience supporting modern ERP and IT applications; defining and mapping business processes and understanding integration between various applications.

- Deacom ERP experience is preferred but not required.

- Manufacturing experience is a plus.

- Strong analytical, logical, and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Intermediate knowledge of O365 required, and deeper/advanced experience with Excel and/or Visio preferred.

- Excellent organizational skills.

- Detail-oriented.

- Positive attitude, highly adaptable.

- Ability to perform well under pressure and be resourceful in meeting deadlines.

- Reliable, predictable attendance is required.

- Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.

- Primarily an in-office position

- Limited travel possible.

IT Business Systems Analyst I

Covista is America's largest healthcare educator, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of 385,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage at scale. Covista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

Industry: Education Administration Programs
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

Covista

**About Covista**

Covista is America's largest healthcare educator, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of 385,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage at scale. Covista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

Our colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds, business, academia, healthcare, government and nonprofits, and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society aren't separate goals—they're one and the same. This means creating an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers that match their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development. Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued for their contributions. But what makes working at Covista distinctive is our impact. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare education—they shape it. This isn't abstract purpose work. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers.

We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.

For more information, visit covista.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

**Job Description**

The Business Systems Analyst is responsible for delivering system, reporting and analytics solutions that ensure accuracy, timeliness and alignment with business needs. This position will support system programming development, document system requirements, define scope and objectives, work with business departments to optimize processes, and formulate systems to parallel overall business strategies. The Business Analyst is the primary liaison between business and technology teams. The Business Analyst understands business requirements/requests and is able to translate such requests to the various technology groups in order to produce the best solution to support the business needs. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Responsibilities:

- Acts as an IT contact/interface to the business.

- Develops requirements and specifications for enhancements to existing applications.

- Participates with project teams involved in defining, developing, acquiring and implementing new software applications.

- Maintains a standard level of user documentation.

- Assists with the development of user acceptance test plans and certifies test results.

- Reviews proposed technology initiatives generated within the business units.

- Assures that the business case for an initiative is within the division’s strategic plan and provides assistance to the business in developing the return on investment documentation.

- Helps business operations utilize information systems to improve efficiency.

- Ability to work closely with external vendors and internal users in project execution (development and implementation), including resolution of issues, capture of further requirements adhering to SDLC gates and risk identification/ management.

- Ability to actively manage competing deliverables to meet business commitments and Development Manager/Project Manager’s expectations, as well as monitor and report the on-going project status.

- Support team data and reporting initiatives; Ensure consistent data standards and practices are upheld across business units.

- Partner with system developers to translate business requirements into scalable, user-friendly applications

- Completes other duties as assigned.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, related field and/or equivalent industry experience.

- 2+ years experience in IT/Software Development business analysis experience.

- SQL Writing/Coding/GCP Usage

- Experience with higher education

- Experience with CRM tools (i.e., Salesforce.com, RightNow) and SDLC knowledge and exposure

**Additional Information**

~~In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $61720.78 and $108334.92. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.Covista offers a robust suite of benefits including:~~

- ~~Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance ~~

- ~~401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match ~~

- ~~Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy ~~

- ~~12 Paid HolidaysFor more information related to our benefits please visit:https://careers.covista.com/benefitsYou are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.~~

Equal Opportunity – Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

Business Systems Analyst

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