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: Key facilitator on establishing requirements and facilitation of delivery /support of analytical business solutions with the internal team, business stakeholders and external partners against defined processes.

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 solutions 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: The Senior Business Analyst will need the support of peers, teammates, senior IT and business leaders, and therefore must possess the ability to effectively communicate and influence these individuals.

Able to emphasize methodology, modeling, and governance: the Senior Business Analyst needs to be well-versed in the architectural and data modeling principles that support solution delivery.

Technologically and politically neutral: The Senior Business Analyst must be vendor/product-neutral and maintain an objective perspective. Likewise, it is important for the individual to understand enough about the broad range of technologies, in a manner that permits the architect to properly engage in discussions with technical experts and not be swayed by inappropriately biased personal agendas in technical decisions.

Articulate, persuasive, and a good salesperson: the Senior Business Analyst must spend substantial time communicating and educating using the appropriate skills to clearly present and discuss ideas and solutions in a persuasive, compelling manner.

Enthusiastic: The Senior Business Analyst should have a passion for technology, their line-of-work, and systems analysis and design, while thoroughly believing in the Global Regulatory Affairs Analytics Programs mission to move sponsor/customer ahead in the market by providing solutions that help them take advantage of the information and insight generated by the program.

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.