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Business Systems Analyst
Zurich Insurance Group
Woodland Hills, CA, United States
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Description
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Job Summary
As part of the IT - Master Data Management (MDM) team, this role serves as a liaison between the Business and IT to provide solution to their business needs; Understands customers’ objectives, processes, and products as well as the business systems capabilities; Supports users in building business case, including cost/benefit analysis, risk assessment, and project scope; Performs impact analysis and supports development of effort/cost estimates; Develops and documents functional specifications; Supports application testing, implementation, and training activities.
Essential Job Functions
• Supports users in building Business Case, including cost / benefit analysis, risk assessment, project scope, and development of a high level plan.
• Drives day-to-day prioritization of work on capabilities, working with business.
• Performs impact analysis of application changes across various components, holding an end-to-end view of the system .
• Defines project scope; Develops functional specifications; Prepares Preliminary Systems Design document.
• Understands customers’ objectives, processes, and products in order to make educated recommendations.
• Acts as liaison between Business and IT, as assigned.
• Supports the Application Subject Matter Experts in development of estimates / validation of suppliers’ estimates.
• Supports application testing, implementation, and training activities.
• Performs quality review checks on project deliverables.
• Oversees Business Requirement gathering and analysis.
• Supports Application SME in creating the Conceptual Design of system, where appropriate.
Education Requirements:Bachelors degree or equivalent.
Experience Requirements:Level III: 1 year as a Business Analyst Level I I or 4 years of experience in related areas.
Special Skill Requirement
• Data experience related to MDM, business intelligence, and/or data warehouse is preferred.
• Supports users in building Business Case, including cost / benefit analysis, risk assessment, project scope, and development of a high level plan.
• Drives day-to-day prioritization of work on capabilities, working with business.
• May require occasional traveling.
• Excellent written and oral skills in local language.
• Able to actively take part in meetings and conferences and communicate effectively.
• Capable of composing reports and technical explanations.
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