Senior Business Analyst, Various Programs and Services

Job Summary

Summary of Responsibilities
In accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values, and strategic directions of PHSA, safety, including both patient and employee safety, is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone  such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.
Reporting to the Manager or Designate, the Senior Business Analyst is responsible for providing leadership in Business Process Reengineering concepts and methods and leads the analysis and documentation of business requirements on projects. The Senior Business Analyst will analyze and document gaps between business requirements and software features and functions and will assist/lead with development and maintenance of statement of work and project plans for projects.

The Senior Business Analyst provides project management and support for all phases of assigned systems development and implementation projects. In addition to providing hands-on application support, the Senior Business Analyst also provides guidance and leadership to assigned team members.
Scope and Complexity
The Senior Business Analyst’s primary responsibility involves interpreting business strategies and objectives to support the selection, procurement and implementation of appropriate information systems applications. Specific responsibilities include supporting applications, demonstrating thorough knowledge of objectives and processes in major segments of the organization, and promoting and developing communication between assigned business units, technical staff and vendors to integrate systems with cross-functional and/or enterprise wide strategies.

The Senior Business Analyst will be involved in identifying and developing application requirements and detailed project plans.
The Senior Business Analyst provides complex and varied functions in an environment that requires a high level of specialized skills to fulfill responsibilities for the most efficient and effective use of the designated service. The Senior Business Analyst ensures that the systems application service is maintained by the highest levels of service availability and performance. Decision-making involves complex and diverse issues.

Innovative, integrated solutions are required to position the organization to achieve full benefit from this service to support a patient centric care environment.
Communications
The Senior Business Analyst communicates with staff at all levels throughout the health authorities in the development of work products to support assigned projects. Internal contacts primarily include both functional area and application team members providing specialized application support, information and knowledge to facilitate, define, clarify and provide suggestions on application selection and use to best meet the needs of the organization.

The Senior Business Analyst serves on a variety of authority-wide, health service delivery area and departmental committees, task groups, internal working teams and corporate projects. Presentations and facilitation of groups throughout the organization will be used to enable the Senior Business Analyst’s work.
External communication includes contact with external peer groups and vendor partners to obtain development advice and support to maintain PHSA business relationships and purchase equipment, services and resources.
Duties/Accountabilities

• Provides strategic planning support and change management services by leading and performing feasibility studies, workload efficiency analyses, using formal data gathering techniques and analyzing, designing and implementing appropriate information systems. This includes identifying system deficiencies, user department operational inefficiencies and ways of improving business efficiency functions.
• Provides support for application maintenance, modification and enhancement through programming, database development, report writing and problem solving.
• Provides guidance and leadership to assigned team members including making adjustments to workload and assignments and participating in decisions relating to hiring, discipline and termination.
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