Description
The Business Analyst (BA) performs functions on highly complex projects and serves as a liaison/consultant between the business community and the technical community. Serves as a subject matter expert in UltiPro and performs functions for high visibility, high profile, and strategic projects to ensure accuracy and completeness while meeting challenging deadlines. This position elicits and analyzes business needs for highly complex projects, determines the impact and integration of solutions to business processes and systems, and validates that solutions fit within the long-term strategic vision. The BA ensures that work products conform to quality and content standards, and stays current on industry best practices, standards, trends, tools and techniques.
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Collaborates with organizational stakeholders and senior management to establish and implement processes that enhance efficiency, and improve work products for the enterprise.
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Creates and validates project work plans to ensure accuracy, effectiveness, thoroughness, and consistency.
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Coordinates cross-functional participation in the business systems analysis process to ensure consistency and adherence with standards and best practices.
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Develops and contributes to enterprise process standards to ensure consistency, efficiency, and effectiveness.
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Recommends and implements process improvements within assigned areas of involvement to continuously improve quality.
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Elicits and analyzes complex business needs, business problems and opportunities to drive optimal, cost-effective business solutions.
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Validates solutions for complex business needs.
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Facilitates meetings to gather relevant information and to ensure understanding of the audience's knowledge and the stage of project life cycle.
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Applies appropriate level of details, based on the audience and stage of project life cycles, to ensure mapped solutions satisfy business problems and opportunities.
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Breaks down highly complex concepts into smaller, comprehensible concepts for analysis to ensure appropriate level of communication and understanding for the project stakeholders.
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Develops business and functional requirements and corresponding work products for highly complex projects to ensure stakeholders' understanding.
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Elicits information and gains consensus from project stakeholders to ensure common goals are established and achieved.
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Manages stakeholder concerns and addresses barriers by identifying, anticipating, and mitigating risks and potential issues to prevent project delays.
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Facilitates collaboration (eg, stakeholders, team members, customers, etc.) to address issues, support decision-making, and ensure common understanding.
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Conveys business systems analysis information (eg, presentations, documentation, etc.) to stakeholders and senior management to ensure consistent understanding of problems, opportunities, and solutions.
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Develops business and functional requirements and corresponding work products for highly complex projects to ensure stakeholders' understanding.
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Validates and recommends solutions for cross-functional and highly complex projects to ensure the approach fits into the long-term business strategy.
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Informs and assists stakeholders in the understanding of the project domain to increase quality of work products.
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Collaborates with project team members to exchange information and to respond to requests in a timely manner.
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Conducts follow-up meetings to track and report resolutions' progress.
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