Business Analyst

Purpose of the Role

As the Business Analyst, you are tasked to provide direct engagement support to assigned transformation initiatives (i.e. high complexity projects). Your role entails working closely with key stakeholders and subject matter experts to elicit detailed requirements as well as capture essential business needs with key focus on identifying opportunities to increase productivity. Your role will also manage the delivery of requirements by participating in design reviews (i.e. with IT team) and walk-throughs to communicate design changes (i.e. with systems) and validate the proposed solutions.

The competency of a Business Analyst extends to all skills relevant to support all stages of the delivery of system and/or process change. Above average skills in communication and facilitation of collaboration are expected.

The capability to use effective methods to deliver change, manage self and support others and think independently (question and analyze towards proper decision making) and find ways to remove blockers.

Responsibilities of the Role

1. Project management and continuous process improvement

2. Ensure successful execution of requirements management activities to support timely delivery of change.

3. Engage with project owners and key stakeholders to elicit the proper scope requirements and gaps in the achievement of Key performance indicators.

4. Manage day to day responsibility of monitoring project requirements from analysis to implementation and other assigned tasks to self and others.

5. Business analysis with key focus on the identification of opportunities to increase productivity in key responsible area and capabilities.

6. Assist relevant delivery teams in research, analysis, assessments, requirement elicitation, solution analysis and other activities (i.e., measurement of KPIs,prepare for the request for proposal and participate in the vendor's proof of concept). Implement decision and evaluation analysis in identifying and delivering the various requirements for the change.

7. Facilitate effective business requirements analysis discussions and walk through sessions with key stakeholders from both the business and implementation teams in defining the solution.

8. Validate solutions through user acceptance tests including data migration rules, business rules and other related deliverables. Ensure defects are resolved, mitigated, and actioned.

9. Communication management

10. Provide regular status reporting for requirements management activities for alignment across multiple stakeholders.

11. Facilitate and negotiate requirements discussions with key stakeholders.
12. Create end user documentation; conduct user trainings, and provide on-site support and use effective ways to communicate to support the project objectives.

Requirements for the Role

• Strong elicitation and collaboration skills to influence outcomes and manage expectations as well as issues.
• Experience in facilitating inception workshops and identifying business needs involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in working in a cross functional environment to source information, interact with diverse groups, and facilitate in delivering positive outcomes.
• Demonstrate openness to new ideas as well as willingness to learn with the desire to make a difference.
• Experience in SQL and VBA is a plus.
• Business knowledge and process design skills is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work independently and manage own workload.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to deal with senior stakeholders.
• Strong O365, Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant work experience including IT project implementation.
• Experience in Agile / Scrum Methodology is a plus
• Experience with AI-driven adaptive learning technologies and data analysis for personalized training.
• Proficiency in using AI tools for content recommendation, automated assessment, and feedback.

External Footnote

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Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In person