Business Analyst, Staff Job Description
Business analyst, staff
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Business Analyst, Staff Duties & Responsibilities
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Will work with various personnel within the organization to facilitate accurate and timely consolidated financial reporting
Work closely with other department members and divisional finance teams to help coordinate budget and forecast processes for the Americas
Assist with communications for the Operations and Infrastructure organization and creation of presentations for town hall meetings
Under supervision, solves moderately complex issues, incidents, problems according to agreed upon service levels and according to IS standards and processes
Collaborates with key business stakeholders to determine business rules, needs, specifications, feasibility (workflow and cost), and priorities for application development / acquisition requests and projects with a moderate level of complexity and according to organizational standards and processes
Work on both short term, ad hoc requests longer term analyses and projects
Enter, manipulate, and report on requirements stored in a requirements management tool
Lead the study of business goals & system needs and design of innovative solutions
Lead collaborative system design with technical staff
Accountable for knowing functionality of SAP sales and distribution modules in order to guide business process changes and development of SAP
Business Analyst, Staff Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Business Analyst, Staff
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Education for Business Analyst, Staff
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Employers hiring for the business analyst, staff job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Business, Education, Engineering, Information Systems, Business/Administration, Information Technology, Finance, Technical, Economics
Skills for Business Analyst, Staff
Desired skills for business analyst, staff include:
Customers
Organization
Processes
Statistical analysis techniques
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Health care related products and services
Legal contracts and health insurance regulations
Market dynamics
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Desired experience for business analyst, staff includes:
Ability and willingness to travel up to 20%, to national and international locations
Oversee various Procure to Pay Programs and/or Applications (Oracle, FieldGlass, AX CAR)
Coordinate with T&O for any user related requests thru UR process and production related issues
Conduct User Acceptance Testing on any changes on source system / data or automation process
Help in documentation of the team’s current system by creating / updating user guides, data dictionary and operational manual
Contribute towards developing strong professional relationship within and across validation teams with different stakeholders such as model developers and T&O support
Business Analyst, Staff Examples
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Business Analyst, Staff Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of business analyst, staff. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for business analyst, staff
- Liasion with Finance Business team in rolling out projects to improve Finance processes
- Support continuous improvement initiatives in operations finance in such areas as overall KPI content, help improve forecast accuracy levels
- Interact with the functional teams, various technical teams, and business stakeholders to optimize and maintain the overall Hyperion EPM reliability, availability, and performance
- Maintain responsibility for implementing, maintaining and supporting the technical environment of all Hyperion EPM solutions
- Consolidate departmental projections within Hyperion systems, maintains and updates allocation scripts, and ensures reporting and analysis requirements related to the process are met
- Provide support to end-users of the financial systems in regards to Hyperion Reporting Studio, SmartView, Essbase, Data Forms and other Hyperion EPM systems
- Develop and maintains financial and accounting systems that will provide control, integrity of data and management information in the most efficient manner
- Assist in the development of policies and procedures as they relate to these systems
- Ensure that these policies and procedures are J-Sox compliant
- Ensure all subsystems are properly interfacing into financial reporting systems
Qualifications for business analyst, staff
- Knowledge of various technologies – Client/Server environment
- Minimum three years’ experience demonstrable experience and skills in solution analysis and process definition in the areas of
- A team player and ability to work under pressure
- BA in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
- Experience with structured development process such as Agile or Team Software Process
- Track record of successful business development within industry base
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Business Analyst, Staff Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a business analyst, staff. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for business analyst, staff
- Support training efforts as necessary including Hyperion, JDEwards, SAP and other applications
- Program coordination in support of the Operations and Infrastructure transformation program in partnership with the leadership team
- Assist with resolution of security exceptions and compliance activities
- Provide workforce planning support
- Lead weekly meetings with direct reports to the head of the Operations and Infrastructure group
- Works well in a team, individually
- Demonstrates strong collaboration and inter-team skills
- Thoroughly research and identify areas for analysis
- Analyze performance metrics and assures metrics are visible and well understood
- Take action in a self-directed manner to identify issues and make recommendations to department leadership
Qualifications for business analyst, staff
- Ability to independently facilitate complex data gathering and design collaboration meetings, JAD sessions and Design walkthroughs
- Incumbent is self-motivated and frequently demonstrates initiative by going “above and beyond” performing what is required for the position
- Minimum 8 years in Operations Finance and Cost Accounting
- Strong hands-on experience with SAP is preferred
- Experience with integrating 3rd Party applications a plus
- Experience facilitating process discussions that involve eliciting process requirements and liaising with users
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Business Analyst, Staff Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a business analyst, staff. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for business analyst, staff
- Perform statistical or operational analyses on assigned projects in order to identify trends, variances, and data gaps
- Provide thought leadership as the subject matter expert on online advertising analytics
- Provide the leadership team with insights regarding marketing campaign effectiveness by measuring return on ad spend (and other success metrics)
- Develop master data and models for tracking budgeted, forecasted and actuals for approved and pending projects in the product portfolio
- Develop portfolio grading and prioritization algorithms / business process for individual programs / projects in business unit and enterprise consolidated views
- Establish fact-base for recommendations of capex / opex prioritization that supports fast decision making as market conditions change
- Own the key model / algorithms / forecasts and assumptions that derive the portfolio ranking
- Coordinate cross-functional data gathering and assessment with industrial engineering, R&D, design enablement, finance, supply chain, global operations, segment marketing and product management
- Develop new models, analyses, and ad hoc reports to address current business problems and optimize business cases and key business decisions
- Build CBAs for new partnerships and investments
Qualifications for business analyst, staff
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Computer Science or equivalent knowledge is required
- Minimum of 2 years experience in accounting, finance or reporting systems is required
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills are necessary
- Must be deadline-oriented with the ability to work in a fast- paced environment
- Must be able to partner cross-functionally to complete tasks
- Experience with Hyperion EPM (version 11.1.2.x), JD Edwards, and SAP is preferred
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a business analyst, staff. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for business analyst, staff
- Execute the full project management life cycle (PMLC) from project initiation through implementation and production support
- Manage project scope, schedule, and resource requirements
- Anticipate and mitigate project risk, facilitate decisions, and manage change
- Gather, document, and communicate requirements effectively to ensure appropriate implementation and use of customer MDM solutions
- Analyze, understand, and document the flow of information between applications, databases, and third party (client/vendor) systems
- Perform data analysis and profiling as part of requirements gathering, troubleshooting, or testing
- Ensure data quality by defining standards, identifying process or system improvements, and monitoring key metrics
- Design and/or review conceptual and logical data models
- Engage with business and project stakeholders, IT, and team members on an ongoing basis
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable enterprise adoption of customer master data
Qualifications for business analyst, staff
- Working knowledge of VB script/VBA or other high-level programming languages is desired
- Experience with Hyperion FDM and HFM is a plus
- Knowledge of Essbase/Data Warehousing is a plus, including experience with calculation scripts, reporting scripts, rules file & business rules
- Experience working with Aggregate Storage Cubes (ASO Cube), understanding the MaxL and MDX languages is a plus, experience understanding performance impacts and experience with administration automation
- Must have ability to understand Hyperion issues and being able work with ITS to resolve the issue to include the ability to troubleshoot reports in Hyperion Financial Reporting Studio
- Must be able to create detailed and well-articulated process documentation
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Business Analyst, Staff Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of business analyst, staff. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for business analyst, staff
- Assist with management, prioritization, troubleshooting, resolution, and escalation of issues
- Acts as a subject matter expert and resource to others by demonstrating a solid understanding of web and mobile interactive design and development principles and best practices to effectively guide business and technical stakeholders on project conceptualization, strategy, design, and functional requirements
- Translates business requirements into functional specifications and prototypes for UX designers, software developers, data architects, QA testers, usability evaluators, and other technical stakeholders
- Develops and presents project management schedules and effectively lead teams through moderately and highly-complex projects lasting from weeks to several months
- Oversees implementation of analytics services, including creation, distribution, and management of dashboards and reports
- Develops training materials and conducts training to peers and users
- Maintains expert level understanding of core applications and systems eBusiness uses to build and maintain web and mobile services, including content managements systems and supporting data sources, to effectively consult stakeholders on project feasibility, design, work effort, and implementation schedules
- Consults with key business and technical stakeholders on selection and acquisition of 3rd party solutions
- Effectively leads project teams of business and technical people from multiple departments and outside contractors
- Participates in the coaching and mentoring of associate and staff level employees on all job essentials
Qualifications for business analyst, staff
- Experience with a variety of data layouts, formats, and file types is preferred
- Demonstrated ability to interact, influence and communicate with executive leadership during formal reviews, ongoing information communications
- At least five years of experience in an operations or project management related position with a track record of successful execution
- Highly organized, exceptional problem solving skills, ability to multitask and manage competing priorities
- Strong financial acumen is preferred and individual must have strong quantitative skills and experience taking raw data and drawing actionable insights from it
- Strong communication and project management skills, including mastery of relevant tools like PowerPoint, Word