Senior Business Analyst, Corporate Solutions

A+E Global Media offers a work environment where employees collaborate in office 3 times per week. New hires must be commutable to one of our current office locations in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Stamford, CT. Please refer to the job description for any specific division requirements.

A+E's Technology team is deep-rooted in the heart of our business. We have great people and great technologies, and together we take on the toughest challenges. As innovators, we choose to iterate, pivot, and adapt quickly. We've reinvented the way A+E leverages technology to produce and sell world-class content. We've modernized our core solutions and embraced a cloud first approach. Perched on the virtues of our "Technology Code", we make technology better, create solutions together, and most of all, we have fun with it.

Our team members are motivated individuals who help each other do remarkable things every day. Together we deliver best-in-class solutions that transform the way A+E works. If this sounds like something you want to be a part of, we want to hear from you!

The Corporate Solutions team within A+E Technology implements and supports the applications used by the Human Resources and Legal & Business Affairs organizations, including enterprise-wide platforms such as Workday, eDocs, and Docusign. While many of these solutions are third-party applications-primarily SaaS and client-server platforms-they often require integration with A+E's technology infrastructure for hosting, security, identity management, and single sign-on.

The Sr. Business Analyst, Corporate Solutions will collaborate with business stakeholders, Technology peers, and management to support and enhance the existing corporate applications ecosystem while identifying and delivering technology solutions to address evolving business needs. This role will be responsible for analyzing and documenting business and user requirements, supporting application operations, and contributing to project management activities for new implementations, enhancements, integrations, and process improvements.

• Gather and document business requirements, workflows, use cases, and user stories.
• Compare current-state and future-state processes and document gap analyses, including opportunities for improvement.
• Research emerging technology and business solutions, identify options to address gaps, and collaborate with the team to develop a technology roadmap.
• Participate in vendor evaluations, RFPs, product demonstrations, and selection processes.
• Serve as a liaison among business stakeholders, implementation consultants, vendors, and internal Technology teams to configure and implement solutions within defined scope.
• Extract data from existing systems and develop data mappings to support data conversion and migration activities.
• Develop test cases, test plans, and supporting documentation for system testing and user acceptance testing.
• Prepare user guides, training materials, and other supporting documentation; conduct training sessions and contribute to change-management plans that promote user adoption.
• Provide application support and collaborate with internal development teams and vendors to resolve production issues and deliver enhancements.
• Stay current on emerging technologies, industry trends, and business solutions while continuously expanding knowledge of the organization's applications and processes.

• Lead requirements analysis, functional and technical design, and production implementation for HR and Legal applications, including Workday, eDocs, Docu Sign, and other third-party solutions.
• Analyze business requirements, processes, and workflows to produce clear, concise, and unambiguous system requirements.
• Review business use cases and validate that they adequately address proposed HR and Legal business-process flows.
• Ensure that business and technical requirements are understood, agreed upon, and formally approved by the appropriate stakeholders at key stages of the project lifecycle.
• Collaborate with internal Software Development and Infrastructure teams to continuously evaluate and improve the HR and Legal application technology ecosystem.
• Identify opportunities where technology, new system development, enhancements to existing applications, and integration solutions can improve efficiency, productivity, and user experience.
• Serve as a liaison among vendors, Technology teams, and business…