Cummins - Senior Salesforce Business Analyst

At Cummins, you will work with innovative thinkers and leading technology in a diverse and inclusive environment to make meaningful contributions to our business, customers, communities and the world.

You will have the flexibility, resources and support you need for career growth and pursuit of the optimal Work-life flexibility to meet your individual needs and aspirations. Our culture believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL.

We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place, and

work with todays most innovative thinkers to solve the worlds toughest problems.

We believe in flexibility for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce.

Thats what #LifeAtCummins is all about. We are looking for a talented Senior Salesforce Business Analyst, to join our team in Pune.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

- Partners with business functions to define, determine, analyze, document and communicate the objectives, business requirements and priorities for information systems and solutions; works with application and technical experts on the solution design, implementation, support, maintenance and enhancement of the information systems.

- Leads the effort, working with the business, to define and document what constitutes business success for medium to large size initiatives within a single organization.

- Elicits, analyzes, and documents functional requirements across the five aspects (process,] information, event, socio-political, and location), as appropriate for the large initiative. May either lead or work as part of a team to gather requirements.

- Elicits, analyzes, and documents non-functional business requirements

- Leads or conducts requirements management activities, as necessary, ensuring that the impact of changes are well understood and approved by the appropriate stakeholders within the organization.

- Leads or conducts solution assessment and validation to ensure that functional and technical specifications meet the identified business needs within the organization

- Reviews test plans and testing methodology to mitigate risks and participates in testing the solution to ensure the solution meets functional and non-functional requirements within the organization

- Conducts problem analysis as needed. Escalates complex issues for additional analysis and resolution as appropriate. Acts as a point of escalation for moderate to difficult problems.

- Develops positive relationships with both the business and other functions involved in downstream technical processes

- May coach and mentor less experienced business analysts

Skills Required :

Strategic mindset :

- Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

Business Need Definition :

- Defines the business outcome that the proposed work will provide using the Business Analysis Toolkit (modeling the five aspects and creating use cases) to justify investment of resources (people, time, finances).

Business Analysis Planning :

- Identifies the activities needed to conduct business analysis considering the five business aspects, level of detail, and approach for eliciting requirements to plan for resources and techniques to document the business needs and solution characteristics.

Requirements Elicitation :

- Discovers and documents functional and non-functional requirements using the Business Analysis Toolkit (modeling the five aspects and creating use cases) to effectively communicate the business needs and solution characteristics for solution design.

Requirements Analysis :

- Evaluates relationships and interdependencies between requirements based upon their complexity and value to the business in order to determine feasibility and prioritization.

Solution Assessment and Validation :

- Assesses the proposed solution using the requirements traceability through the life cycle of the requirements to determine if they deliver the desired business outcome.

Solution Design :

- Creates and defines the solution design complete with instrumentation and measurement, using industry standards and tools, version control, and build and test automation to synthesize diagrams, models and documentation in order to build a solution that meets buildability, business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.

Solution Functional Fit Analysis :

- Composes and decomposes a system into its component parts using procedures, tools and work aides for the purpose of studying how well the component parts were designed, purchased and configured to interact holistically to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.

Solution Validation Testing :

- Validates a configuration item change or solution using the Functions defined best practices, including the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards, tools and metrics, to ensure that it works as designed and meets customer requirements.

Project Issue and Risk Management :

- Manages the process to identify, assess and prioritize issues and risks using recommended tools and processes to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of negative events or to maximize the realization of positive events.

Balances stakeholders :

- Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Communicates effectively :

- Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

- 6-8 years of experience.

Domain knowledge:

- Should have good understanding of Manufacturing and Distribution business.

- Should have experience in working on Manufacturing/Automotive related projects.

- Should have good understanding of Salesforce Sales and Service cloud functionalities.

- Should be able to provide functional solution based on the Salesforce capabilities.

- Should good experience as business analyst for Salesforce application/projects.