Application Analyst II
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The Application Analyst II - D365 and Yardi will focus on the stability, security, and compliant operation of enterprise applications, with an initial focus on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Yardi. This role emphasizes strong attention to detail, application governance, and precise permission sets and role management to ensure audit readiness and data integrity. The analyst partners closely with IT, Security, and business stakeholders to support day-to-day operations, access reviews, and compliance activities, while also contributing to the organization’s transition from vendor-based platforms to custom-developed applications. This position plays a critical role in maintaining operational excellence while enabling future-state application modernization. Knowledge and experience with D365 and Yardi are required for this position.
Responsibilities:
- Reviews, analyzes, and defines system requirements based on business needs for the company in conjunction with the key members of IT and business stakeholders.
- Facilitates change management processes, including the development and execution of test scripts, communication plans, implementation plans, and rollback plans.
- Works through standard or escalated issues to resolution. Evaluates new issues reported and escalates accordingly when appropriate. Prioritizes issues according to business impact and urgency. Analysis of reported issues to determine patterns and reviews against system requirements for process or system improvements.
- Creates process documentation, procedures, and policies. Maintains documentation, including working with IT teams and assigned business stakeholders to address concerns and update standards and policies. Assists in providing training for other IT teams and business users.
- Corrects and modifies existing processes in place to support sustainable and flexible architecture and environments. Implements process changes to increase user efficiency.
- Performs system audits and evaluations. Drive configuration adjustments to meet compliance needs and improve user efficiency. Investigates, triages, and troubleshoots escalated issues and system outages. Performs root cause analysis and exercises appropriate problem management strategies.
Requirements:
- High school diploma or GED required
- Associate’s degree in business, computer science, information technology from four-year college or university or an equivalent combination of education and experience preferred
- Minimum three to five (3-5) years of experience in Business, Systems and/or Application Analysis preferred
- Knowledge and experience in technology business process development preferred
- Experience in Business and Technical analysis preferred
- Excellent verbal and written communication, planning, analysis, and organization skills
- Intermediate business/application analysis skills
- Intermediate problem-solving ability
- Intermediate project planning and management skills
- Basic understanding of software development lifecycle and methodologies
- Basic understanding of systems design principles and architecture
- Familiarity with data modeling and database concepts
Compensation
The anticipated pay range/scale for this position is commensurate with experience. Actual starting base pay within this range will depend on factors including geographic location, education, training, skills, and relevant experience.
Additional Compensation
This position is eligible to receive a discretionary annual bonus.
Perks and Benefits
Employees have the opportunity to participate in medical, dental and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts and/or health savings accounts; dependent savings accounts; 401(k) with company matching contributions; employee stock purchase plan; and a tuition reimbursement program. The Company provides 9 paid holidays per year, and, upon hire, new employees will accrue paid time off (PTO) at a rate of 0.0577 hours of PTO per hour worked, up to a maximum of 120 hours per year.
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