Business Analyst

IT Business Analyst

The IT Business Analyst performs analysis activities that support the decision making regarding matching data solutions (platform selection, configuration, development) with business, user(s), and functional needs from stakeholders. This involves conducting market research, functional comparisons, and staying abreast of what is being done at other law firms and professional services firms. The analyst will also gather requirements, document procedures, and review the data management and data governance methods of the current processes across portfolios.

This person partners with the appropriate business stakeholders and the Senior IT Program Manager to prioritize and create project roadmaps for all data management capabilities including data warehouse, data governance, and analytics efforts. With the business and IT teams, they maintain a set of institutional knowledge of what is working well across the firm and what needs improvement.

What you'll be doing:

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand and prioritize their needs, creating a roadmap of projects for their assigned area.
• Monitor and perform work related to incoming requests from business stakeholders for changes, updates, and other technical issues to the Sidley intranet site.
• Seek input of user experience and document current procedures and processes to determine potential improvements to their assigned products.
• Stay abreast of best practices being done at other firms and technology developments that may affect the areas. Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders and the IT Portfolio Managers to influence the technology decisions for the areas based on this knowledge.
• Analyze and consolidate all perspectives on the project – business needs, requirements, user experience, security, training, risk, time, cost, technology architecture, procurement/vendor management, operational considerations, etc. – to help the Firm reach the best technology decisions.
• Manage the lifecycle of their assigned products, from inception to implementation, throughout production until retirement / upgrade.
• Gather business requirements from project stakeholders to further define the goals and objectives.
• Drives projects and business teams toward achieving intended business results within a specified time and budget.
• Perform risk analyses to identify and resolve critical path issues.
• Prepare and analyze program / project related data.
• Review and report on program / project status.
• Prepare materials for briefings and presentations to large size groups of key decision makers at the executive level.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required skills:

• 2-5 years of experience as an IT Business Analyst

Nice to have experience:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience working on vendor (3rd party) software projects
• Experience researching vendor (3rd party) software and/or vetting vendor (3rd party) software