Canon Solutions America, Inc. Career Opportunities
Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Liaison between business users and technical support/developers.
Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Translating business needs into process improvement and technical enhancements.
Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Supporting Salesforce and/or incentive compensation applications.
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Leverage Your Technical Savvy to Grow Your Business Systems Analysis Skills

Work with Diverse Technologies, Learning On the Job, at a Global Industry Leader

If you like to solve business problems using information technology and have strong communication skills, this position offers you plenty of great opportunities: Canon Solutions America provides industry leading enterprise, production, and large format printing solutions, supported by exceptional professional service offerings. A wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., Canon Solutions America is headquartered in Melville, N.Y. and has sales and service locations across the U.S. Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and the Caribbean markets. With approximately $29 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranks third overall in U.S. patents granted in 2016† and is one of Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies in 2016.

The Requirements

To meet the basic qualification for this role, you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship. In addition, to be a good fit for this position, you will possess:
  • A Bachelor's degree required in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or comparable field.
  • Working knowledge of Salesforce.com as an end user or administrator is required.
  • Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Novice-level or higher skills in SQL.
  • Novice-level or higher skills in MS Excel.
  • Experience as a business analyst, including writing functional/business requirements and preparing functional designs, is a plus. Quick question for you - click here
Just as important will be the following competencies and characteristics:
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain business processes.
  • Self-motivation and the ability to think independently and learn quickly.
  • The ability to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
The following are not required but will set top candidates apart from the rest:
  • A master's in Business Administration (MBA).
  • Knowledge in the document solutions industry.
  • Business experience with sales and marketing processes.
  • Experience across the entire standard development life-cycle.
As a business systems analyst, you will need to be willing and able to travel as projects require. You may travel to our corporate headquarters in Melville, New York, or to other Canon Solutions America sites. The frequency and length of travel will vary, but over the course of a year it will average about 25% of the time. This role may also require you to put in extra hours on occasion.

Pictured: With the technology offerings of the Canon and Océ brands, Canon Solutions America helps companies in a wide variety of industries improve sustainability, increase efficiency, and control costs through high volume, continuous feed, digital and traditional printing, and document management solutions. Manufacturing, healthcare and education are just a few of the many industries we support.

The Role

Reporting to the Director, Business Process Re-Engineering, you will join a team that includes three other Analysts. You will be responsible for delivering key project initiatives in addition to maintaining production support of existing systems.

Initially you will provide helpdesk support, responding to a variety of requests, including resetting passwords, helping a user create a report, determining why expected values aren't showing, and others. In the business analyst role you will support Sales and Marketing with projects related to quoting, pricing, ordering, forecasting and more. Quick question for you - click here

More specifically, in the helpdesk support role you will:
  • Monitor queue to ensure that all inquiries are responded to within the time frame of the team SLA.
  • Facilitate professional and constant communication with overall users on the status of production problems that might arise and inform them about ways of resolving issues.
  • Act as a liaison between business users and technical development support in the daily support of ERP and third party applications.
  • Provide on-going application support, develop process models, participate in business discussions, create functional requirements and test plans, and execute system testing.
  • Properly triage issues as code, setup, data or user training issues, and resolve according to the appropriate triage result.
  • Provide workarounds for issues.
  • Propose long-term solutions to system and business process issues to improve operational efficiency.
  • Resolve business issues and enhancement requests through system administration or configuration updates.
  • Perform user administration.
  • Configure, implement, test and deploy application ERP solutions, custom applications solutions and third party solutions as needed.
The business analyst aspect of the position will involve contributing to or leading key strategic business initiatives. You will:
  • Improve existing systems and business processes to improve operational efficiency by studying current practices, and designing and proposing modifications.
  • Create and facilitate efficient/cost effective solutions and analyze systems specifications to meet business requirements.
  • Participate and be an active contributor in discussions with business users and leaders regarding areas of opportunity to leverage technology.
  • Research, analyze and recommend business workflow and application best practices.
  • Research and resolve operational application issues.
  • Maintain system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
  • Create designs for technical solutions to resolve business problems and try out components of new systems for efficiency.
  • Act as liaison between business users and technical development team to translate and document business requirements to functional designs with use cases.
  • Work with the development team to clarify business requirements and design solution.
  • Perform functional testing of delivered project solution(s). Create test plans, test schedules.
  • Coordinate user acceptance testing with business users to validate that the delivered solution meets and/or exceeds the business needs.
  • Adhere to company change management processes to apply projects to production.
  • Create supporting application documentation and end user process and training documentation.
Pictured above: Canon Solutions America's broad portfolio includes the imageRUNNER ADVANCE 8500 Series, durable multifunction printers designed to meet today's demand for integrated imaging, cloud, and mobile solutions. Below: To help customers get the most out of their multifunction and other printers, we offer Managed Print Services (MPS). Our experts can help customers reduce expenses and enhance operational efficiencies.

What's in It for You

Professional development
Our technology environment is very diverse and you'll expand your experience with Salesforce as well as both SAP and Oracle. You'll also work with proprietary and third-party applications. Canon Solutions America also offers a variety of training resources, including instructor-led training and web-based courses and tutorials.

Career options
This is an ideal role for you to take your IT career to the next level. From this position you might set your sights on advancing within the business analyst path (we have Junior BAs, BAs and Senior BAs), or you might pursue different career paths in our organization. At Canon Solutions America we are committed to promoting from within whenever possible.

Commitment to the environment and community
Canon has undertaken several initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of our operations and the products we produce. In addition to our environmental stewardship, one of Canon U.S.A.'s strongest beliefs is that we have a responsibility to contribute to the welfare of the communities that we serve. For example, one of our most prominent programs, Canon4Kids, applies Canon product expertise to help locate missing children. Whether originating from corporate headquarters, our regional locations, or our subsidiaries, Canon U.S.A. connects with and supports the community in many ways.

Innovation in technology
Innovation has been a key ingredient in Canon's success throughout our history. We are one of the most prolific inventors of consumer and professional imaging solutions. Canon Inc. has continued to invest a significant portion of net sales to R&D investment each year. Our Canon R&D divisions in Japan and throughout the world are dedicated to developing custom products and solutions for customers worldwide.

Unique corporate philosophy
We embrace diversity in the workplace through the spirit of kyosei, Canon's corporate philosophy. Kyosei means "all people, regardless of race, religion or culture, harmoniously living and working together into the future." We are committed to creating a diverse work environment where all employees are respected and supported to do their very best.

Excellent compensation
Canon Solutions America offers competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision plans that start on day one of employment; a 401(k) plan with company match; discretionary profit sharing and success sharing; paid holidays and generous vacation time; corporate discounts; tuition reimbursement and more.

Video: The Enterprise Managed Services Division of Canon Solutions America is committed to working with clients' stakeholders to design transformative solutions that address financial, operational, and environmental goals. We help customers transform their business with complete outsourcing and managed services to improve workflow, processing, and output solutions.

Keys to Success

The role offers many opportunities for you to build your skill set, but to take advantage of the opportunities you'll need to be proactive about getting up to speed quickly. We'll provide training, but you should take the initiative to ask questions and do research independently.

The Helpdesk team supports some 2000 users across the country, and we'll look to you to bring a strong customer service approach along with patience and excellent communication skills. You'll use the same skills as a business analyst, including active listening, probing for clarity and repeating back to confirm understanding. You'll communicate via phone and email, so you'll need to use these skills both orally and in writing. While there will be occasions when you'll need to manage user expectations, in general you should be saying, "Let's see how we can do that," rather than "No, that can't be done."

You will have individual responsibilities, but we also work in teams, putting a high value on collaboration and knowledge sharing. Priorities can change on short notice, so you should be flexible and adaptable. Those who excel in our group have a positive attitude and suggest solutions rather than just complaining.

In addition, in order to be an outstanding Helpdesk / Business Analyst, you will:
  • Pay close attention to the details while also understanding the big picture.
  • Manage multiple activities and priorities effectively.
  • Combine both analytical skills and creativity in solving problems.
  • Keep a constant eye out for new applications as well as ways to improve processes.
Pictured: Recognizing the distinctiveness of each business environment, Canon Solutions America has worked with leading software companies to offer a breadth of value-add solutions that focus on individual workflow needs. Among the options are Therefore™, a complete end-to-end solution from input management to document management and workflow; uniFLOW Capture, a scan management software suite to capture, process and distribute office documents; and Océ Repro Desk Software Suite, a scalable, powerful print management solution based on a single, common interface.

About Us

Canon Solutions America is the company created by the integration of Canon Business Solutions, Inc. with Océ. The strength of the one brand that grows out of this integration lies in the expertise of our people and a common culture that focuses on our customers. Together, we've reimagined solutions for printing, document management and business services. Today, we're looking ahead for continued success.

By cultivating a staff of expert representatives, technicians, analysts, engineers, and an administration that is dedicated to understanding the needs of our customers, we deliver on our mission with determination, professionalism, and the utmost integrity. As a subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., one of the most respected technology brands in the world, we uphold a commitment to the environment, the community, and the world at large.

From the opening of the New York office in 1955 to the further development of imaging products today, Canon U.S.A., Inc. has continued to be a leader in professional business and consumer imaging equipment and information systems. Our products include everything from cameras and EF lenses to binoculars, camcorders, digital presses, scanners and much more. Our extensive product line and digital solutions enable businesses and consumers worldwide to capture, store and distribute information.

Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it distributes. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. In 2014, the Canon Americas Headquarters secured LEED® Gold certification, a recognition for the design, construction, operations and maintenance of high-performance green buildings. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss and follow us on Twitter @CanonUSA. For media inquiries, please contact pr@cusa.canon.com.

Canon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Minority/Female/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. To read more about employment discrimination protections under federal law, please visit this site: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

Video: Hear directly from customers of Canon Solutions America.

†Based on weekly patent counts issued by United States Patent and Trademark Office.

All referenced product names, and other marks, are trademarks of their respective owners.

We are an EEO/AA employer. Minority/Female/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

Leverage Your Technical Savvy to Grow Your Business Systems Analysis Skills

Work with Diverse Technologies, Learning On the Job, at a Global Industry Leader

If you like to solve business problems using information technology and have strong communication skills, this position offers you plenty of great opportunities: Canon Solutions America provides industry leading enterprise, production, and large format printing solutions, supported by exceptional professional service offerings. A wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., Canon Solutions America is headquartered in Melville, N.Y. and has sales and service locations across the U.S. Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and the Caribbean markets. With approximately $29 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranks third overall in U.S. patents granted in 2016† and is one of Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies in 2016.

The Requirements

To meet the basic qualification for this role, you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship. In addition, to be a good fit for this position, you will possess:
  • A Bachelor's degree required in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or comparable field.
  • Working knowledge of Salesforce.com as an end user or administrator is required.
  • Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Novice-level or higher skills in SQL.
  • Novice-level or higher skills in MS Excel.
  • Experience as a business analyst, including writing functional/business requirements and preparing functional designs, is a plus. Quick question for you - click here
Just as important will be the following competencies and characteristics:
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain business processes.
  • Self-motivation and the ability to think independently and learn quickly.
  • The ability to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
The following are not required but will set top candidates apart from the rest:
  • A master's in Business Administration (MBA).
  • Knowledge in the document solutions industry.
  • Business experience with sales and marketing processes.
  • Experience across the entire standard development life-cycle.
As a business systems analyst, you will need to be willing and able to travel as projects require. You may travel to our corporate headquarters in Melville, New York, or to other Canon Solutions America sites. The frequency and length of travel will vary, but over the course of a year it will average about 25% of the time. This role may also require you to put in extra hours on occasion.

Pictured: With the technology offerings of the Canon and Océ brands, Canon Solutions America helps companies in a wide variety of industries improve sustainability, increase efficiency, and control costs through high volume, continuous feed, digital and traditional printing, and document management solutions. Manufacturing, healthcare and education are just a few of the many industries we support.

The Role

Reporting to the Director, Business Process Re-Engineering, you will join a team that includes three other Analysts. You will be responsible for delivering key project initiatives in addition to maintaining production support of existing systems.

Initially you will provide helpdesk support, responding to a variety of requests, including resetting passwords, helping a user create a report, determining why expected values aren't showing, and others. In the business analyst role you will support Sales and Marketing with projects related to quoting, pricing, ordering, forecasting and more. Quick question for you - click here

More specifically, in the helpdesk support role you will:
  • Monitor queue to ensure that all inquiries are responded to within the time frame of the team SLA.
  • Facilitate professional and constant communication with overall users on the status of production problems that might arise and inform them about ways of resolving issues.
  • Act as a liaison between business users and technical development support in the daily support of ERP and third party applications.
  • Provide on-going application support, develop process models, participate in business discussions, create functional requirements and test plans, and execute system testing.
  • Properly triage issues as code, setup, data or user training issues, and resolve according to the appropriate triage result.
  • Provide workarounds for issues.
  • Propose long-term solutions to system and business process issues to improve operational efficiency.
  • Resolve business issues and enhancement requests through system administration or configuration updates.
  • Perform user administration.
  • Configure, implement, test and deploy application ERP solutions, custom applications solutions and third party solutions as needed.
The business analyst aspect of the position will involve contributing to or leading key strategic business initiatives. You will:
  • Improve existing systems and business processes to improve operational efficiency by studying current practices, and designing and proposing modifications.
  • Create and facilitate efficient/cost effective solutions and analyze systems specifications to meet business requirements.
  • Participate and be an active contributor in discussions with business users and leaders regarding areas of opportunity to leverage technology.
  • Research, analyze and recommend business workflow and application best practices.
  • Research and resolve operational application issues.
  • Maintain system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
  • Create designs for technical solutions to resolve business problems and try out components of new systems for efficiency.
  • Act as liaison between business users and technical development team to translate and document business requirements to functional designs with use cases.
  • Work with the development team to clarify business requirements and design solution.
  • Perform functional testing of delivered project solution(s). Create test plans, test schedules.
  • Coordinate user acceptance testing with business users to validate that the delivered solution meets and/or exceeds the business needs.
  • Adhere to company change management processes to apply projects to production.
  • Create supporting application documentation and end user process and training documentation.
Pictured above: Canon Solutions America's broad portfolio includes the imageRUNNER ADVANCE 8500 Series, durable multifunction printers designed to meet today's demand for integrated imaging, cloud, and mobile solutions. Below: To help customers get the most out of their multifunction and other printers, we offer Managed Print Services (MPS). Our experts can help customers reduce expenses and enhance operational efficiencies.

What's in It for You

Professional development
Our technology environment is very diverse and you'll expand your experience with Salesforce as well as both SAP and Oracle. You'll also work with proprietary and third-party applications. Canon Solutions America also offers a variety of training resources, including instructor-led training and web-based courses and tutorials.

Career options
This is an ideal role for you to take your IT career to the next level. From this position you might set your sights on advancing within the business analyst path (we have Junior BAs, BAs and Senior BAs), or you might pursue different career paths in our organization. At Canon Solutions America we are committed to promoting from within whenever possible.

Commitment to the environment and community
Canon has undertaken several initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of our operations and the products we produce. In addition to our environmental stewardship, one of Canon U.S.A.'s strongest beliefs is that we have a responsibility to contribute to the welfare of the communities that we serve. For example, one of our most prominent programs, Canon4Kids, applies Canon product expertise to help locate missing children. Whether originating from corporate headquarters, our regional locations, or our subsidiaries, Canon U.S.A. connects with and supports the community in many ways.

Innovation in technology
Innovation has been a key ingredient in Canon's success throughout our history. We are one of the most prolific inventors of consumer and professional imaging solutions. Canon Inc. has continued to invest a significant portion of net sales to R&D investment each year. Our Canon R&D divisions in Japan and throughout the world are dedicated to developing custom products and solutions for customers worldwide.

Unique corporate philosophy
We embrace diversity in the workplace through the spirit of kyosei, Canon's corporate philosophy. Kyosei means "all people, regardless of race, religion or culture, harmoniously living and working together into the future." We are committed to creating a diverse work environment where all employees are respected and supported to do their very best.

Excellent compensation
Canon Solutions America offers competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision plans that start on day one of employment; a 401(k) plan with company match; discretionary profit sharing and success sharing; paid holidays and generous vacation time; corporate discounts; tuition reimbursement and more.

Video: The Enterprise Managed Services Division of Canon Solutions America is committed to working with clients' stakeholders to design transformative solutions that address financial, operational, and environmental goals. We help customers transform their business with complete outsourcing and managed services to improve workflow, processing, and output solutions.

Keys to Success

The role offers many opportunities for you to build your skill set, but to take advantage of the opportunities you'll need to be proactive about getting up to speed quickly. We'll provide training, but you should take the initiative to ask questions and do research independently.

The Helpdesk team supports some 2000 users across the country, and we'll look to you to bring a strong customer service approach along with patience and excellent communication skills. You'll use the same skills as a business analyst, including active listening, probing for clarity and repeating back to confirm understanding. You'll communicate via phone and email, so you'll need to use these skills both orally and in writing. While there will be occasions when you'll need to manage user expectations, in general you should be saying, "Let's see how we can do that," rather than "No, that can't be done."

You will have individual responsibilities, but we also work in teams, putting a high value on collaboration and knowledge sharing. Priorities can change on short notice, so you should be flexible and adaptable. Those who excel in our group have a positive attitude and suggest solutions rather than just complaining.

In addition, in order to be an outstanding Helpdesk / Business Analyst, you will:
  • Pay close attention to the details while also understanding the big picture.
  • Manage multiple activities and priorities effectively.
  • Combine both analytical skills and creativity in solving problems.
  • Keep a constant eye out for new applications as well as ways to improve processes.
Pictured: Recognizing the distinctiveness of each business environment, Canon Solutions America has worked with leading software companies to offer a breadth of value-add solutions that focus on individual workflow needs. Among the options are Therefore™, a complete end-to-end solution from input management to document management and workflow; uniFLOW Capture, a scan management software suite to capture, process and distribute office documents; and Océ Repro Desk Software Suite, a scalable, powerful print management solution based on a single, common interface.

About Us

Canon Solutions America is the company created by the integration of Canon Business Solutions, Inc. with Océ. The strength of the one brand that grows out of this integration lies in the expertise of our people and a common culture that focuses on our customers. Together, we've reimagined solutions for printing, document management and business services. Today, we're looking ahead for continued success.

By cultivating a staff of expert representatives, technicians, analysts, engineers, and an administration that is dedicated to understanding the needs of our customers, we deliver on our mission with determination, professionalism, and the utmost integrity. As a subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., one of the most respected technology brands in the world, we uphold a commitment to the environment, the community, and the world at large.

From the opening of the New York office in 1955 to the further development of imaging products today, Canon U.S.A., Inc. has continued to be a leader in professional business and consumer imaging equipment and information systems. Our products include everything from cameras and EF lenses to binoculars, camcorders, digital presses, scanners and much more. Our extensive product line and digital solutions enable businesses and consumers worldwide to capture, store and distribute information.

Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it distributes. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. In 2014, the Canon Americas Headquarters secured LEED® Gold certification, a recognition for the design, construction, operations and maintenance of high-performance green buildings. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss and follow us on Twitter @CanonUSA. For media inquiries, please contact pr@cusa.canon.com.

Canon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Minority/Female/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. To read more about employment discrimination protections under federal law, please visit this site: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

Video: Hear directly from customers of Canon Solutions America.

†Based on weekly patent counts issued by United States Patent and Trademark Office.

All referenced product names, and other marks, are trademarks of their respective owners.

We are an EEO/AA employer. Minority/Female/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
Canon Solutions America, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact the Human Resources Department at cmitchell@engage2excel.com.
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