Systems Analyst Jobs in Irvine, CA
Systems Analyst jobs in Irvine are concentrated in the Irvine Spectrum, Irvine Business Complex, and the research corridors near UC Irvine, where technology, healthcare IT, financial services, and defense contracting drive consistent hiring. Employers active right now include Ventura Foods, Masimo, and KIA Motors. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Employment Type: Salaried
Work Arrangement: Hybrid | Relocation package available to eligible candidates
Position Summary:
The Senior Business Systems Analyst (Sr BSA) bridges business needs and technology solutions by leading business analysis, process discovery, requirements definition, stakeholder alignment, testing coordination, and deployment readiness for both small and complex initiatives.
This role has a primary focus on Oil Trading, supporting the procurement, planning, and financial management of oil commodities, critical to manufacturing operations. The Sr BSA partners closely with Oil Trading, Finance, Revenue Management, Procurement, Supply Chain teams to support business processes that manage positions, demand planning, supply optimization, pricing, and profitability. In SaaS and packaged-platform environments, the Sr BSA applies a fit-to-standard mindset, helping business partners align processes to scalable platform capabilities while ensuring configuration, integrations, data integrity, financial controls, reporting, forecasting, user experience, adoption, and downstream operational impacts are understood and addressed.
As a member of the Business Engagement Team, the Sr BSA serves as a key liaison between business partners, Functional BAs, platform teams, developers, vendors, solution architects, and IT leadership to ensure delivered solutions meet business outcomes and enterprise standards.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Shape Demand: Support and partner in the identification and prioritization of business opportunities / ideas, focusing on long-term strategic goals. Lead the cultivation and refinement of these business ideas into actionable demands including comprehensive business cases.
- Process Analysis: Conduct detailed assessments of current business processes using flowcharts and analytical tools to document and help identify gaps, inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement which can be addressed through the use of technology.
- Business Requirements: Lead the elicitation and documentation of complex, cross-functional business requirements for corporate and strategic priority initiatives.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure business requirements are met by partnering with the QA team in blackbox testing and leading UAT efforts, including test strategy, planning, execution, and issue resolution along. Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success. Engage in post-implementation reviews to identify lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
- Stakeholder Communication: Facilitate effective communications between business partners, delivery teams, and executive stakeholders.
- Mentoring and Training: Guide less experienced and new BSA team members. Also work with Training and Development to create effective training media and training plans for end users of solutions.
- Additional responsibilities as assigned.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Engineering, or Business
- 5-10 years of progressively increasing responsibility as a BSA
- Experience supporting supply planning and inventory optimization, including demand forecasting, replenishment planning, and multi-site supply balancing.
- Equivalent business experience, with extensive involvement in process analysis, process design and documentation
- Involvement in complex large scale and high impact projects/platform implementations that add significant business value.
- Experience supporting Oil Value Trading or commodity trading value streams, including trade capture, scheduling, logistics, settlement, risk, and financial reporting.
- Proven experience performing end-to-end process analysis for complex, transaction-heavy environments with high controls and data accuracy requirements.
- Experience leading UAT strategy and execution for trading or finance-related platforms, including coordination with business SMEs and QA teams.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Financials and CTRM platforms (or similar trading and risk management systems) strongly preferred.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Knowledge in multiple functional areas or be an expert in at least one of the following: Logistics, Product Lifecycle Management, and corporate systems (HR, Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, and/or Operations).
- Demonstrate deep process knowledge of key end to end processes like Oil Value Trading or Commodity Trading Value Streams.
- Ability to perform system and process analysis duties including flow charting and value stream mapping using process and software documentation tools.
- Strong ability to partner with Oil Trading, Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, Operations, and IT to define and deliver integrated trading solutions.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Financials and CTRM platforms (or similar trading and risk management systems) strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical mindset with attention to process rigor, auditability, and operational reliability.
- Ability to elicit and document requirements related to pricing, exposure, reconciliations, approvals, and financial integration.
- Has direct participation and experience with multiple software platform implementations.
- Prior experience with process improvement methodologies and tools (Kaizen, Six Sigma, Green/Black Belt, etc).
- Understanding of data systems, databases, software development life cycle, and information and application architecture.
- Experience leading the development of UAT and QA testing plans and cases.
- Ability to learn and adapt to new software and technology.
- Project management skills a plus.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
Why Join Us:
Ventura Foods innovates and manufactures food solutions for foodservice and retail businesses. We make exclusive products for the world's most iconic restaurants and retailers, we provide ready-to-go product solutions for professional kitchens, and we make consumer brands everyone knows and loves. When you work for Ventura Foods, you get a strong foundation of training, a manager who cares about you and celebrates your success, a safe environment, and challenging work. As part of our team, your future is limited only by how much you’re willing to push yourself to get there. We invest in your growth because you invest in ours.
Ventura Foods offers career growth opportunities as well as competitive compensation and benefits:
- Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision – coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees
- Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)
- Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays
- Employee Appreciation Events and Employee Assistance Programs
- Salary Base Range of $103,685.00 - $134,453.55*
The “base salary range” provided above is a good faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position in the specified markets. Ventura Foods reserves the right to pay outside of the given range based on a variety of factors including but not limited to: candidate skills and experience, complexity of the job, budgetary factors, and location/geography. Ventura Foods conducts regular reviews of compensation ranges and therefore reserves the right to alter this range at any given time.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive environment in which all employees are treated with respect is evident in our company culture and values. We believe that fostering an environment of inclusion and a focus on diversity across our organization is vital to attracting top talent, driving innovation, and meeting the high expectations of our customers in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.
Ventura Foods is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Employment Type: Salaried
Work Arrangement: Hybrid | Relocation package available to eligible candidates
Position Summary:
The Senior Business Systems Analyst (Sr BSA) bridges business needs and technology solutions by leading business analysis, process discovery, requirements definition, stakeholder alignment, testing coordination, and deployment readiness for both small and complex initiatives.
This role has a primary focus on Oil Trading, supporting the procurement, planning, and financial management of oil commodities, critical to manufacturing operations. The Sr BSA partners closely with Oil Trading, Finance, Revenue Management, Procurement, Supply Chain teams to support business processes that manage positions, demand planning, supply optimization, pricing, and profitability. In SaaS and packaged-platform environments, the Sr BSA applies a fit-to-standard mindset, helping business partners align processes to scalable platform capabilities while ensuring configuration, integrations, data integrity, financial controls, reporting, forecasting, user experience, adoption, and downstream operational impacts are understood and addressed.
As a member of the Business Engagement Team, the Sr BSA serves as a key liaison between business partners, Functional BAs, platform teams, developers, vendors, solution architects, and IT leadership to ensure delivered solutions meet business outcomes and enterprise standards.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Shape Demand: Support and partner in the identification and prioritization of business opportunities / ideas, focusing on long-term strategic goals. Lead the cultivation and refinement of these business ideas into actionable demands including comprehensive business cases.
- Process Analysis: Conduct detailed assessments of current business processes using flowcharts and analytical tools to document and help identify gaps, inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement which can be addressed through the use of technology.
- Business Requirements: Lead the elicitation and documentation of complex, cross-functional business requirements for corporate and strategic priority initiatives.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure business requirements are met by partnering with the QA team in blackbox testing and leading UAT efforts, including test strategy, planning, execution, and issue resolution along. Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success. Engage in post-implementation reviews to identify lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
- Stakeholder Communication: Facilitate effective communications between business partners, delivery teams, and executive stakeholders.
- Mentoring and Training: Guide less experienced and new BSA team members. Also work with Training and Development to create effective training media and training plans for end users of solutions.
- Additional responsibilities as assigned.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Engineering, or Business
- 5-10 years of progressively increasing responsibility as a BSA
- Experience supporting supply planning and inventory optimization, including demand forecasting, replenishment planning, and multi-site supply balancing.
- Equivalent business experience, with extensive involvement in process analysis, process design and documentation
- Involvement in complex large scale and high impact projects/platform implementations that add significant business value.
- Experience supporting Oil Value Trading or commodity trading value streams, including trade capture, scheduling, logistics, settlement, risk, and financial reporting.
- Proven experience performing end-to-end process analysis for complex, transaction-heavy environments with high controls and data accuracy requirements.
- Experience leading UAT strategy and execution for trading or finance-related platforms, including coordination with business SMEs and QA teams.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Financials and CTRM platforms (or similar trading and risk management systems) strongly preferred.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Knowledge in multiple functional areas or be an expert in at least one of the following: Logistics, Product Lifecycle Management, and corporate systems (HR, Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, and/or Operations).
- Demonstrate deep process knowledge of key end to end processes like Oil Value Trading or Commodity Trading Value Streams.
- Ability to perform system and process analysis duties including flow charting and value stream mapping using process and software documentation tools.
- Strong ability to partner with Oil Trading, Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, Operations, and IT to define and deliver integrated trading solutions.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Financials and CTRM platforms (or similar trading and risk management systems) strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical mindset with attention to process rigor, auditability, and operational reliability.
- Ability to elicit and document requirements related to pricing, exposure, reconciliations, approvals, and financial integration.
- Has direct participation and experience with multiple software platform implementations.
- Prior experience with process improvement methodologies and tools (Kaizen, Six Sigma, Green/Black Belt, etc).
- Understanding of data systems, databases, software development life cycle, and information and application architecture.
- Experience leading the development of UAT and QA testing plans and cases.
- Ability to learn and adapt to new software and technology.
- Project management skills a plus.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
Why Join Us:
Ventura Foods innovates and manufactures food solutions for foodservice and retail businesses. We make exclusive products for the world's most iconic restaurants and retailers, we provide ready-to-go product solutions for professional kitchens, and we make consumer brands everyone knows and loves. When you work for Ventura Foods, you get a strong foundation of training, a manager who cares about you and celebrates your success, a safe environment, and challenging work. As part of our team, your future is limited only by how much you’re willing to push yourself to get there. We invest in your growth because you invest in ours.
Ventura Foods offers career growth opportunities as well as competitive compensation and benefits:
- Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision – coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees
- Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)
- Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays
- Employee Appreciation Events and Employee Assistance Programs
- Salary Base Range of $103,685.00 - $134,453.55*
The “base salary range” provided above is a good faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position in the specified markets. Ventura Foods reserves the right to pay outside of the given range based on a variety of factors including but not limited to: candidate skills and experience, complexity of the job, budgetary factors, and location/geography. Ventura Foods conducts regular reviews of compensation ranges and therefore reserves the right to alter this range at any given time.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive environment in which all employees are treated with respect is evident in our company culture and values. We believe that fostering an environment of inclusion and a focus on diversity across our organization is vital to attracting top talent, driving innovation, and meeting the high expectations of our customers in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.
Ventura Foods is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Systems Analyst Jobs in Irvine: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a systems analyst job in Irvine?
Focus your search on Irvine's four strongest hiring sectors: enterprise software and SaaS companies in the Irvine Spectrum, health systems and medical device firms near the UCI Health corridor, financial services and insurance companies in the Irvine Business Complex, and aerospace and defense contractors in the broader Irvine-Tustin area. Candidates who can demonstrate experience with ERP platforms, business process analysis, or healthcare IT workflows stand out in this market.
Which companies hire systems analysts in Irvine?
Employers hiring systems analysts in Irvine right now include Ventura Foods, Masimo, and KIA Motors, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Irvine's employer base skews toward established mid-size technology firms, large insurance and financial services companies, and regional healthcare networks, many of which maintain dedicated IT and business systems teams locally.
Are there remote systems analyst jobs in Irvine?
Yes, though it depends on the role. Systems analyst work is often remote-compatible for the analytical and documentation phases, but roles tied to on-site infrastructure, regulated healthcare environments, or classified defense contracts typically require in-person presence. About 33% of systems analyst openings tied to Irvine are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, with the strongest remote availability coming from SaaS and enterprise software employers in the Irvine Spectrum.
How can I get a systems analyst job in Irvine with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Irvine is targeting junior business analyst or IT analyst roles at the city's mid-size technology and insurance companies, which frequently hire candidates transitioning from support, operations, or QA functions. UC Irvine's extension programs and local community college certificates in business analysis or information systems carry real weight with Irvine employers who recruit regionally. Internship pipelines through UCI and Chapman University also feed directly into entry-level systems roles at local firms.
Which industries hire the most systems analysts in Irvine?
The sectors hiring the most systems analysts in Irvine are Medical Devices, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Irvine's concentration of corporate headquarters, regional insurance operations, and a mature biotech and medical device cluster means demand is spread across multiple industries rather than dominated by a single sector.
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