Lead Analyst Job Description
Lead analyst
provides expertise in area and an advanced level of understanding of the principles of IT project leadership.
Lead Analyst Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Hunt for advanced cyber threats
Define, build, test and implement correlation rules that support the monitoring and enforcement of the ADP security policies
Produce metrics that support GSO's strategic direction
Gather current best practices from various key stakeholders
Assist in the development and maintenance of new procedural documentation including newly developed correlation rules
Coordination of incident response activities (escalations, notifications)
Monitoring, managing, and coordinating the information collection and cataloging of activities from a variety of public and private security related information sources, documenting the initial analysis of vulnerability reports and how they may relate to ADP
Incorporating diverse data sources across internal and external platforms to continuously improve the plan’s healthcare quality metric performance (HEDIS/QARR/Star/Accreditation) and driving quality improvement initiatives/projects
Identifying improvement opportunities and providing guidance for needed changes
Satisfaction of internal and external requirements in support of the organization’s HEDIS/QARR metric improvement and reporting responsibilities
Lead Analyst Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Lead Analyst
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPIM, APICS, CBAP, SAP, ISO, CPRE, BCS, ISTQB, ISEB, ITIL
Education for Lead Analyst
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the lead analyst job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Graduate, MBA, Statistics
Skills for Lead Analyst
Desired skills for lead analyst include:
IT project management
Excel
SQL
Materials development
Motivational strategies
Training and consultation
Providers in an assigned geographic area through understanding the interrelationships the competitive landscape
Managed care
PowerPoint
Microsoft Office
Desired experience for lead analyst includes:
Communicates with technical teams and business partners to clarify requirements
Influences decisions once RFI/RFPs are received
Creates and executes test cases spanning multiple systems and validate against expected results
Identifies high-impact change challenges and builds engagement tasks into the change plan to mitigate or reduce impact
Analyzes change impacts on the entire organization and key stakeholder groups
Partners with training coordinators to ensure the changes are understood
Lead Analyst Examples
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Lead Analyst Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of lead analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for lead analyst
- Mentoring other analysts, specialists, and clinical reviewers in the department
- Maintain a stable and resilient SCCM platform spanning global locations through advanced Windows Server troubleshooting skills with in-depth knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policies and System Center integration
- Install and configure SCCM sites according to documented standards
- Troubleshoot SCCM server and client-side issues including resolution of SCCM communications, policy & site assignment issues along with Client health remediation steps
- Create & present performance reports/metrics with recommendations for efficiency and system tuning improvements
- Leverage firm systems such as System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) native SCCM status messages and alerts to monitor System and Application performance
- Analyze and remediate any outages and alerts to manage risks to the environment
- Assess and improve procedures and monitoring
- Scheduling flexibility to provide support for SCCM via on-call rotation
- Support all configuration management capabilities of SCCM for the global customer base including Software Distribution, Security Patching, OSD, Inventory
Qualifications for lead analyst
- Defines and implements innovative approaches and solutions that require dramatic changes within and across business environments
- Some exposure to collaborative workflow and documentation systems (Wiki documentation, project blogging)
- Some experience providing training and mentoring, preferably to both onshore and offshore teams
- Familiarity with interpreting the log output of a wide selection of device classes, spanning networking and host
- Infrastructure service devices
- Packet-level behavioral familiarity with most major TCP/IP application protocols
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Our company is looking for a lead analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for lead analyst
- Apply judgment in the application of escalation and volume adjustment and other factors used in computing the recommended selling price
- Perform special cost and pricing studies on a variety of matters, including back-up for customer requests, cost out analysis, rate impact studies for finance, estimate to complete (ETC), estimate at complete (EAC) and design to cost (DTC) analysis
- Setup process components like SOP creation, process maps, requirement gathering documents
- Provide leadership and facilitate collaboration of ideas with all internal customers by identifying trends, adverse conditions and risk to individual NWOs and the network as a whole
- Identify appropriate production measures and benchmarks in collaboration with the corporation’s leadership and business stakeholders
- Coordinate Offsite Risk Assessment Reviews
- Conduct an annual risk assessment analysis of each network organization and factors creating the risks
- Schedule Offsite Assessment Reviews
- Develop an quarterly and annual risk analysis reports for internal and external customers
- Report production risks and causes to internal and external customers
Qualifications for lead analyst
- Broad knowledge of business-impacting security scenarios and viable methods to detect these scenarios (Cross device log correlation)
- Implementation experience with some of the major centralized authentication systems (LDAP, KERBEROS, NIS, RADIUS)
- General understanding of key components of international internet architecture, both technical and political
- Bachelor's Degree in related field degree
- Expert knowledge of business analysis and technology delivery
- Working/Sound knowledge of RMLC - Requirements Management Lifecycle
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a lead analyst. 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 lead analyst
- Often takes the lead in promoting and teaching the purposes, methods and results of the Division’s activities, and in enhancing the self-assessment & diagnostic capacity of network organizations
- Maintains extensive knowledge of Firm software databases and Analyst function
- Mentors and trains staff on software databases and jurisdictional requirements
- Serves as a resource for all levels of the Property Tax practice and is involved with national practice initiatives, as needed
- Manages and monitors Analysts’ daily workflows to meet all internal and jurisdictional mandated deadlines
- Works closely with Manager, Analyst to oversee the entire Analyst group, including ongoing training of Analysts and Senior Analysts
- Manages timely completion of tasks, using knowledge of tax deadlines
- Formulates and implements new procedures to handle changes in filing or processing requirements by monitoring changes in jurisdictional requirements
- Focuses primarily on client-related work with reduced jurisdictional responsibilities
- Assists with development and deployment of database system enhancements
Qualifications for lead analyst
- 5+ years of experience designing/administering benefits for large or mid-size organization
- Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and competing demands
- Knowledge of ERISA qualified retirement plan rules and regulations
- Experience/competency working with financial aspects of payroll and benefits
- Experience working through multiple business fiscal cycles
- 7-10 years + working with the System Center suite of products and the Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012) product in particular
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead analyst. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for lead analyst
- Essential experience in Excel, Access & Visual Basic (or equivalent data mining tools)
- Additional experience of SQL, VBA, Business Objects, SAS and SAP BW would be advantageous
- Lead strategic insight analysts to deliver timely and actionable insight to meet business demands
- Develop the Analysts in the ROI team to ensure there are progressing in terms of technical ability and commercial understanding
- Ensuring that the ROI business is included in major IDS Analytical initiatives run in the UK
- Guide and mentor your team of analysts, providing them with clear planning, processes and goals, seeing to their wellbeing and personal evolution
- Adhere to legal and compliance requirements and ensure strict confidentiality of records and information
- Tier 2 HRIS support for Workday absence issues, issue escalation as needed
- Resolve Help Desk Tickets in a timely manner
- Develop curricula for GovEx’s academic offerings
Qualifications for lead analyst
- SCCM backup and archiving
- Disaster Recovery including site restoration and client failover processes
- Security patching configuration within SCCM including , recovery and cleanup tasks of the patching module
- Comfortable working on break/fix issues and able to communicate well and give/receive instructions on incident calls
- Energetic, self motivated and enjoys working in a collaborative team environment
- Experience with data visualization tools Power BI or Tableau
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for lead analyst
- Lead the design of Capacity Models that connect the SIOP demand forecast with the installed capacity in our facilities
- Establish and maintain effective communication linkages with the sites that he/she serves to ensure that the site has a voice in the ABCQ/PFEP plans, replenishment design, capacity models, and inventory forecast
- Use of test scripts for complete testing in line with the test strategy
- Partner with individuals throughout the Company to understand, explain and evaluate expenditures, functions, activity-based drivers
- Play a key role in the execution of the overall Sarbanes-Oxley plan for the Electrical Sector annually
- Implements global roll-out and then monitors and reports on the status of annual SOX requirements such as Design Self Assessments and Process Narratives
- Participate in the planning of the Electrical Sector’s SOX annual management validation scoping
- Partner with operations to develop solutions for any internal control gaps and remediation of those gaps
- Provide ad-hoc assistance to Electrical Sector on SOX related issues and initiatives as required
- Special projects as assigned, such as investigation of potential internal controls problems at non-in scope sites
Qualifications for lead analyst
- Working knowledge of Oracle, strong Microsoft skills and pricing systems a plus
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in pricing, estimating, cost accounting or finance
- The ideal candidate will have pricing experience in both the government and commercial sectors
- Experience in Data Mining and Data Modeling expertise
- Candidate must have a current DoD secret clearance and clearable for a top secret clearance
- Financial data analysis experience, bi-lingual