IT Business Analyst

• Data Analysis and Process Optimization: Partner with functional teams (for example – HR, Sales and Commercial teams) to gather and analyze business process/data to identify needs and recommend solutions.  Analyze industry trends and best practices. 
• Identify value driven opportunities and drive POCs with clear outcomes: Identify improvement opportunities to advance individual and organizational capabilities; partner with third parties to articulate high level solution requirements, ensuring stakeholder alignment; when appropriate, plan & lead proof of concepts to validate solution.
• Requirements gathering and documentation: Translate stakeholder needs into clear, well-structured requirements including functional specifications, practitioner stories, and process flows.

Drive data driven decision-making to enhance ‘fit for purpose’ business processes: Assist functional managers in making decisions based on data insights enabling the organization to improve digital acumen; Define outcome-based business process transformation; explore and implement opportunities for process automation. 

Champion Change Management: Understand process change required to adopt new technology, effectively communicate benefits, and drive organizational change management; motivate affected individuals to embrace change. 

Risk Management: Identify potential risks of change and recommend mitigations.

Champion for Standardization: Drive standardization by leveraging of out of the box system and simplification of existing processes.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field with minimum of 3 years relevant experience or relevant work experience.
• Experience should include work as a business analyst with one or more functional areas.
• Strong knowledge of business applications such as SAP, other ERP systems, or other contemporary technologies
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and/or DevOps methodologies a plus