Systems Analyst

Caesars Entertainment is the world’s most geographicallydiversified casino-entertainment company. Our core mission is to inspiregrown-ups to play. Focusing on building loyalty and value with its gueststhrough a unique combination of great service, excellent products andtechnological leadership.

Caesars has an exciting opportunity as a Systems Analyst inour IT division, located in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Under generalsupervision, this position’s focus is providing innovative business solutions to resolve system constraints, meetuser needs company’s strategic outlook; performing application analysis anddesign, development, integration and enhancement activities, as well asimplementation and related maintenance and documentation.

This key position requires “out-of-the-box" thinking, a collaborative nature, and the ability to challenge the status quo whileachieving the goal.

Key Functions

Advise user departments about functional design and impact on departmental operations

Consult with user departments in the analysis of manual and automated systems; assists in presentation of detailed functional specifications, formats, and templates

Suggests solutions to problems presented that fit within the operating limitations of equipment

Analyze existing systems and databases, and recommend enhancements to solve identified business needs

Apply working knowledge of application components (e.g. file structures) in conjunction with query tools to solve identified business needs

Perform all aspects of internal system acceptance testing, ensuring delivery of well-tested system enhancements, and further ensuring systems meet business requirements

May perform daily supervision of a cross-functional testing team, where appropriate, in preparing system and integration test data, testing and reporting test results to programming and to management

Trouble-shoot incidents reported by end-users, escalating where necessary to schedule system changes, and discussing resolutions with end-users in order to arrive at a permanent solution

Keep abreast of current technology in both hardware and software in order to recommend business solutions that fit system constraints, meet user needs, and match the company's strategic outlook

Attend training classes and seminars designed to advance skills and creative capabilities.

Develop and maintain good written and oral communication skills

Support business objectives by investigation of user needs and development of innovative ideas for solutions.

Coordinates, analyze and schedule system change requests with users and supervisor

Ensure systems meet the business needs of users by acting as a liaison and listening post with users and user representatives regarding system change requests and specific business requirements design

Maintain the confidential nature of matters pertaining to company records and policies

Enhance project management skills by participating in defining and presenting system solutions and time lines for identified business needs and/or technical problems to management

Participate in feasibility and conceptual design, functional design, and general design studies

In conjunction with end-users and others, decide what changes need to be made to documentation, training, problem diagnosis, and programs, in view of the utilization and application of end-user skills to solve the identified business need

May provide project management skills on simple to moderately complex projects

Advise user departments and assists in the selection of software packages from outside vendors to solve defined user needs. Advise user departments in the development and/or change of departmental procedures

Communicate and explain business requirements design to other team members, including user interface and integrated performance support, programmers and analysts, documentation providers, and training, implementation, and support personnel ensuring business requirements are well-understood and implemented

Participate in development of work schedules to coordinate with overall departmental and development project plans

As part of a testing team, may assign and schedule available staff to ensure testing assignments are successfully completed on time according to the plan, reporting any variances to supervisor

Develop alternatives to mitigate risk of impact to development plans

Ability to use problem solving approaches, effective communication in various settings and with a variety of audiences, strategic thinking and planning, etc to achieve the required outcome with teams both internal and external

Oversee document development across various project work-streams. Ensure the internal control statements are created per the compliance and regulatory standards

Provide input for complex documents and ensures final versions are client ready. Review documents with clients and primary users

Able to use requirement gathering templates/protocols to collect information

Demonstrate knowledge of defects and issues. Can recognize a defect, a user error, training issue, data issue, etc. in the testing context

Demonstrate knowledge in the different phases of testing and is able to articulate them clearly

Write simple to moderate test scripts and prepare simple to moderate test data

Abilityto provide server administration and configuration support for Windows ServerOperating Systems (2008, 2012, 2016)

Abilityto provide Windows server update and vulnerability update support

Required

Bachelors degree in Computer Sciences,Management Sciences, Hotel/Casino Management, Accounting, or similar engineeringdisciplines or equivalent education.

Must have a minimum of three (3) years’ of work experience in job with systems analysis and design, implementation, training, and testing required; or three (3) years’ of experience in end-user area

At least a minimum of one (1) year of experience in analysis, design, implementation, testing and training

Must have an understanding and basic knowledge of systems analysis and design

Basic knowledge of database uses and design,spreadsheets, word processing and operating systems

Experience in hardware installation anddiagnostics preferred, usually acquired through previous business systemsexperience.

Basic knowledge of project managementtechniques

Preferred

Experience in Hospitality applications

Requirement

In efforts to maintain a safe and drug-free workplace, CaesarsEntertainment requires all new hires to complete a satisfactory backgroundcheck and pre-employment drug screening.

Equal Employer Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration foremployment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, gender,sexual orientation, gender, identity, gender expression, transgender,pregnancy, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age,disability, protected Veteran status, genetics or any other characteristic protectedby applicable federal, state, or local law.

At Caesars Entertainment, Inc., our Team Members create the extraordinary. We are the largest casino-entertainment company in the U.S. and one of the world's most diversified casino-entertainment providers. Since beginning in Reno, Nevada, in 1937, Caesars Entertainment has grown through the development of new resorts, expansions and acquisitions. Our resorts operate primarily under the Caesars®, Harrah's®, Horseshoe® and Eldorado® brand names. We focus on building loyalty and value with our guests through a combination of impeccable service, operational excellence and technological leadership. The company is committed to its Team Members, suppliers, communities and the environment through its PEOPLE PLANET PLAY framework.

Our Caesars family is driven by our Mission, Vision and Values. We take great pride in living these values – Together We Win, All In On Service and Blaze the Trail – every day. Our mission, “Create the Extraordinary”. Our vision, “Create spectacular worlds. That immerse, inspire and connect you. We don’t perform magic; we create it with excellence. #WeAreCaesars”. If you are ready to create some magic, we invite you to explore our dynamic, yet unique, career opportunities.