Senior Business Analyst

Job title - Senior Business Analyst

Experience – 5yrs- 10yrs

Education - BS Business Administration – Management Information Systems, • BS Business Administration – General Administrative, • BS/BA Information Technology/C

Skills: Analytics and Reporting, Business Analysis, Business Analytics, data analysis

Role Purpose:

Primary Accountabilities, Duties and Responsibilities

· Working with primary Business Stakeholders to understand and document data & insight requirements \ technical specification needs.

· Monitor, facilitate, and report around key initiatives / deliveries across multiple stakeholders as aligned to existing process, best practices, and agreed timelines.

· Conduct group workshops, focused discussions, interviews and survey required needs for grooming incoming or on-going requests

· Build and establish key strategic relationships within the business and IT teams

· Establish best practices and industry standards for improving operational efficiency

Core Profile

· Ability to profile intended uses of operational process data, and where required, mash-up said operational data with behavioral data.

· A passionate visionary who can determine how a solution’s pieces fit together and then employs coordinated methods and tools to drive the integration of solutions into and across business processes.

· A communicative individual who can focus on key business results by showing the customer that you care about their solutions being developed, are metrics-driven, and can communicate the costs and tradeoffs of your ideas to both the customers and the technical team.

· Capacity to understand, plan and then collaborate on the required evolutionary paths for solution integrations and expansions, new technology insertions, and risk identification and mitigation.

Essential Communicative Qualities

Well-respected and influential:

Able to emphasize methodology, modeling, and governance:

Technologically and politically neutral:

Articulate, persuasive, and a good salesperson:

Enthusiastic:

Business Qualifications

· Strong, yet balanced, business acumen, along with interpersonal, leadership, and teamwork skills.

· Excellent oral and written communication abilities, in parallel with clear and concise presentation skills.

· Experience in ‘Shared Services’ as a business model for service delivery, while remaining cognizant of costs, chargeback models and quality as it relates to such service models.

· Demonstrated experience supporting high profile, dynamic projects with multiple constituents, and involving technology development from beginning to end.

· Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move towards consensus.

· Self-starter, ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, communicate and collaborate when required and continuously delivers solid action-oriented solutions.

Industry Experience

· Minimum 7 years of related business analytics experience, including at least five years of experience as a business systems analyst working with software systems, along with data integration, data analytics and reporting technologies from vendors such as Informatica, Information Builders, MicroStrategy, IBM, SAS, Alteryx, Dataiku, Power BI, Tableau, Python

· Working knowledge of Systems Analysis and Process Modeling Techniques and Tools used for the creation of data integration architectural standards; preferred experience to include: SSADM, DFD, ERD, Data Schemas, Data Normalization & Data Dictionaries

· Concise communication ability to act as translator between technical subject matter experts and business process owners, and elicitor of requirements from business users and data owners.

· Proven ability to ascertain what is needed for a solution, and then transcribe the solution from the ‘conceptual image’ to a ‘scoping blueprint’ document is a must.

· Experience and working knowledge of Business Intelligence/Analytics, Data Analytics, Self-Service Business Analytics and Data Warehousing processes, methods and tools.

· Experience with data governance, data ownership, risk and compliance programs and techniques.