If you combine your strong business analysis abilities with a background in general accounting and/or finance and outstanding leadership and communication skills, the role of Business Analyst with The Shyft Group offers you some compelling opportunities:

• You will join a collaborative, tight-knit Implementation team whose members work hard but also bring a good deal of fun and humor to the table. We support one another and learn and improve as a unit both in wins and missteps. 
• You will be the fifth analyst on our long-tenured team of analysts and developers. When people join us they tend to stay, as evidenced by the team's decades of experience.
• Simply put -- this is a fun role. You will work with experts and enjoy a wide view of the business and our products. The pace is fast and there are always new things on the horizon; there are always things you don't know and plenty of opportunities to learn and advance your skills. What you're working on this year will not be what you're working on next year.
• While you could be happy and challenged in this role for years to come, you can also spotlight your talent and potential for taking on new responsibilities and/or roles.
• You will be part of an essential business. While other organizations are cutting back, The Shyft Group is growing rapidly, both organically and through acquisitions. Likewise, the Implementation team splits their time between conversion projects for the existing business and new business implementations.  

The Shyft Group (NASDAQ: SHYF), is North America’s leader in specialty vehicle manufacturing, assembly, and upfit for the commercial, retail, and service specialty vehicle markets. The Shyft Group rebranded in 2020 to reflect a new focus on high-growth end markets to help ensure long-term profitable growth. Our new name and renewed focus reflects the action, speed, and agility we offer the commercial vehicle industry through our growing roster of dynamic brands — Utilimaster, Royal Truck Body, DuraMag, Strobes-R-Us, Spartan RV Chassis, and Builtmore Contract Manufacturing.

Pictured: The Charlotte facility will manufacture the Velocity, a highly productive, fuel-efficient delivery vehicle. Among other differentiators, the Velocity offers big-truck interior space without requiring a commercial driver's license -- thus expanding the pool of potential drivers for fleet operators. You will see these vehicles on the road and be able to tell friends and family, "I support the team that makes those."

Reporting to the Business Solutions Manager, you will join a team of analysts and developers and serve as a financial lead (e.g. A/P, AR, GL, invoicing, costing, intercompany, expense reporting, bank recompilation, etc.)

We are primarily an agile shop doing project-based work. Projects are diverse, ranging from new dashboards to integrations of newly acquired businesses into the Shyft models to a full ERP conversion and more. Your customer will provide the end vision and the team breaks the project into small deliverables compacted into two-week intervals. You will work on every phase of a project, including:

1. Design phase - gathering and documenting the requirements
2. Validation phase – presenting your work to your peers; ensuring it aligns with current priorities and the roadmap
3. Application phase – discovery moves to IT and you’ll lead the development of test plans and serve as the bridge between IT and subject-matter-experts
4. Project management – once we have approvals, you’ll act as a project manager, supporting end-user procedures, documentation and more.
5. Training – you may also train your customer at the conclusion of a project.

Specific duties will include:

• Participating in a daily standup in the morning and a post-day meeting to review what was achieved and where we are going
• Working with process owners and subject matter experts to establish and implement procedures to support the software implementation at all locations
• Collaborating to develop a common model to support all locations
  • The common model should encompass at least 80% of each locations core requirements
  • Participate in discovery sessions at each location
• Delivering and implementing on your process area on time and within budget
• Preparing and reviewing procedures to support common model
• Coordinating a successful hand-off to respective teams of the knowledge and ownership of the new system
• Preparing and presenting project status updates
• Attending product training and eLearning sessions, as needed
• Facilitating and driving stage gate review sessions to gain acceptance and agreement
• Providing day-to-day guidance and oversight of subject matter experts and other project participants; actively working to promote and recognize performance
• Providing project documentation as needed
• And more…

Most activities can be done remotely, however, some projects require “boots on the ground,” particularly new acquisitions and larger projects. Post-COVID restrictions, you can plan on approximately a trip a quarter, though you must be willing to travel as needed to meet changing project demands.

This description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

Value and Respect
You’ll never be a number here. People will know and respect you for your expertise and your successes will be noticed.  Likewise, your supervisor manages his team with respect for the individual and opportunities that leverage your unique talents. He’ll provide you the autonomy to own your role and plenty of support when you need it.

Wide Visibility
You'll enjoy wide visibility as you work with the business from the CEO to transactional levels. 

Stability and growth
The Shyft Group is financially sound and will continue to be an aggressive market disrupter through strategic acquisitions, relevant product innovations, and aggressive growth models that serve strong and growing end markets. Be assured, our accelerated growth trajectory will create opportunities for strong performers.

Focused transformation
The Shyft Group’s family of well-respected brands continue as leaders in every segment in which they compete. The Shyft name represents speed, efficiency, agility, and a high-intensity approach, which corresponds with the company’s pivot in market focus and the forward momentum garnered in the work truck, specialty service, and delivery vehicle markets.

Driven to deliver
Ever evolving and advancing, The Shyft Group is driven to make an impactful difference in how effectively goods, people, and services are delivered in today's and tomorrow's marketplace. Through our unmatched industry knowledge, engineering expertise, and manufacturing reach, we continue to deliver job-enhancing, efficiency-driving, ever-reliable products and services made for the road ahead.

Excellent compensation
In addition to a competitive salary and bonus opportunity, we offer medical, dental, vision, and prescription insurance plans; a health savings account; a flexible savings account; wellness credits; a wellness program; a 401(k) plan with a corporate match; an employee stock purchase program and more.

Ours is a high-performance team because everyone is accountable for their responsibilities and we all know we can count on our teammates to deliver. We’re deadline-driven and never take a “hopeful” approach – “I hope to have this done by Tuesday…” We set and meet our goals as well as clear performance objectives.
 
To be an outstanding Business Analyst, you will:

• Take ownership of each assigned project and drive it from creation forward.
• Be a self-starter with an energetic, go-getter attitude.
• Remain in the driver’s seat with every project you manage. If you find yourself becoming the passenger, raise your hand and ask the team for help.
• Always recognize the difference between assumption and fact as you’re doing requirements discovery.
• Bring a positive upbeat attitude daily -- make every day a good one.
• Leverage outstanding communication skills at every level.
• Remain flexible in a changing, always evolving environment.