Business Analyst

Employment Type:

Permanent Application Link: 4437

Summary The primary responsibility of the Business Analyst is to assess overall business objectives within one or more business groups and design business processes in such a way that they may be effectively modeled and configured. The Business Analyst must also apply a broad knowledge of business strategies, industry specifics, and various technical functions to accurately implement change and anticipate organizational impacts.

• Understand business analysis and process design
• Utilize functionality to satisfy business requirements and business process design
• Gain proficiency with data visualization tools and learn to incorporate best practices
• Read and understand contracts and/or legal documents to facilitate business setup and design
• Ability to effectively document processes, solutions, and decisions
• Work as a liaison among stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate, validate, and document data and system requirements that may result in changes to business processes, policies, and systems
• Develop familiarity with business functions, as well as established priorities and sequences for processes
• Develop business relationships and integrate activities with various IT departments to ensure successful implementation and support project efforts
• Monitor and report to management on the status of project efforts, anticipating/identifying issues that inhibit the attainment of project goals and implementing corrective actions
• Dependable and predictable attendance is required

Basic Requirements:

• Dedicated self-starter with a high level of initiative, assertiveness, curiosity, and inquisitiveness
• Quick study with the desire to continuously develop and grow professionally and personally
• Contributes ideas and builds off others’ ideas
• A methodical and analytical approach to solving problems
• An ability to explain technical information to non-technical people
• Ability to work effectively, communicate, and relate to a wide variety of personalities at different levels
• Ability to effectively work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Detail-oriented; positive attitude; team-oriented

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science or Management Information Systems preferred
• Experience building complex and visually appealing data visualizations using tools like Tableau, Power
  
  BI, Spotfire, etc.
• Experience with Object Oriented coding languages preferred
• Familiarity with application development the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) preferred
• Writing SQL queries to join and transform datasets
• Basic Git/Git Hub usage for version control
• Familiarity with applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Exploratory analysis to support decision making