Business / Systems Analyst

Career Area: Information Technology

Occupation Group: Network and Systems Engineering

Salary

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A typical Business / Systems Analyst earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $88,690

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $88,361

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Works with businesses to analyze business needs related to information technology. Uses in depth technical knowledge and business analysis skills. Helps businesses use technology to achieve strategic business goals. May define and develop new technology systems or work with existing systems.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Business / Systems Analyst is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Writing: Experience expressing business messages effectively in written form. This may include planning drafting and revising as necessary.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Business Systems Analysis: Systems analysis – the interpretation of business rules and requirements for technical systems (generally within IT)
• Business Systems: Working experience with procedures and processes that are used as delivery mechanisms for providing specific goods or services to customers.
• Business Analysis: Experience identifying business needs and and determining solutions to business problems.
• Business Process: A business process or business method is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product (serve a particular goal) for a particular customer or customers.
• Systems Analysis: System analysis is he process of studying a procedure or business in order to identify its goals and purposes and create systems and procedures that will achieve them in an efficient way.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Business / Systems Analyst that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Requirements Verification and Validation: Working experience of Requirements Verification and Validation. The distinction between the two terms is largely to do with the role of specifications. Validation is the process of checking whether the specification captures the customer's needs, while verification is the process of checking that the software meets the specification.
• Business Intelligence: Business Intelligence (BI) comprises the set of strategies, processes, applications, data, technologies and technical architectures which are used by enterprises to support the collection, data analysis, presentation and dissemination of business information.
• Data Mapping: Working experience of Data Mapping. In computing and data management, data mapping is the process of creating data element mappings between two distinct data models.
• Data Warehousing: In computing, a data warehouse (DW or DWH), also known as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a system used for reporting and data analysis, and is considered a core component of business intelligence.
• Business Process Modelling: Working experience of Business Process Modelling, which is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise in business process management and systems engineering, so that the current process may be analysed, improved, and automated. BPM is typically performed by business analysts, who provide expertise in the modeling discipline; by subject matter experts, who have specialized knowledge of the processes being modelled; or more commonly by a team comprising both. Alternatively, the process model can be derived directly from events' logs using process mining tools.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Business Modeling: A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Business Systems Analyst
• It Business Analyst
• Senior Business Systems Analyst
• Technical Business Analyst
• Financial Systems Analyst

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