A Business Analyst provides strategic management consulting to companies and businesses. Advises on ways to improve operations, increase efficiency, reduce costs and increase revenues; may recommend systems or organizational change. May specialize in an area of business practice or a specific industry; may also specialize in consulting with government agencies.
Works independently to support business strategies and utilize facilitation skills to elicit requirements and business needs from cross functional teams across all levels of the organization, including vendors. Defines solutions, provides training to business users, and acts as a sprint manager to ensure activities are completed in a timely fashion. Provides business process mapping services and ensures all requirements are defined well enough for prioritization and execution on requests. Contributes to the request intake management process and presents activity requests to the management prioritization group for resource alignment. Establishes new projects/sprints and provides status updates to management.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsible for developing specifications through participation in project teams or meetings with internal/external customers for smaller projects and/or ad hoc requests. Partners with customers, peers and cross functional teams to discover needs; and proactively offers options and solutions. Interprets data, identifies trends, establishes/utilizes benchmark data, creates data visualization and interpretation of information. Presents information to customers in clear, concise, and useful formats. Leverages analytic techniques necessary to meet needs of business users supported by the analytic team. Prepares sprint cycles and sprint stories. Participates in sprint planning sessions. Leads / participates in work prioritization sessions. Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
EXPERIENCE
Three years' experience
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs. Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements. Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors. Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc. Frequent keyboard use/data entry. Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping. Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs. Rare climbing.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
None Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)
Job Type:
Employee Department:
8743000033
Employee Safety Scheduled Weekly Hours:
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