Business Analyst

Job Description
The Business Analyst will provide quality analysis through anticipating purchases in advance, performing vendor cost comparison, evaluating currently technology state in comparison with demand. Analyst is also responsible for assisting with internal approval forms creation, pushing for quick approvals, continuously updating large deals within a 30-60-90 pipeline, entering accurate forecasts, creating tickets for PR/PO creation, and providing quick turnaround from purchase initiation to PO.
Essential Functions:
• Assists with budget preparation and financial planning processes.
• Work cross functionally across multiple internal functions and external parties
• Assist senior business analysts with research such as market size and trends, competitive analysis to understand and translate relevant quantitative and qualitative data sets
• Perform variance vs. forecast analysis to understand how accurate our inputs, assumptions and demand plans are to identify areas of opportunity, and create continuous improvement plans to deliver more accurate forecasts each iteration
• Assist with driving large-scale projects with ambiguous scope into refined deliverables for executive consumption leveraging project management skills, including ability to prioritize and meet deadlines, follow through on completion of high-profile projects
• Prepare ad hoc financial reporting as requested