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Business Analyst
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Job Description
Job purpose/summary
This role will be responsible for evaluation, tracking, & analysis of business/systems, work & processes to monitor for transformation needs. This role forms part of a new project that is looking to deliver a more streamlined and efficient network throughout the business and thus requires a motivated team member to deliver on process improvements and mapping. This role involves a good understanding of different modules of a learning management solution and how they can be used in the organization to derive incremental business results.
Duties and responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be responsible for:
- Applying strong knowledge of the business processes for designing, developing, and testing software as product functions with the ability to answer questions that arise from the business management or users
- Identifying and resolving business systems problems, and consulting with various users to identify potential improvements
- Providing technical documentation for each process that includes the policy and/or procedure underpinnings necessary publishing official documents that dictate processes, procedures, and security requirements associated with each development effort
- Providing second-level business support for all implemented commercial processes
- Developing and supporting business intelligence and strategy development for the organization including assimilation of various reports and metrics to identify areas of improvement
- Developing detailed functional requirements documents based on business needs
- Analyzing business functional requirements to identify information, procedures and decision flows
- Developing sustainable best practices, process knowledge, and documenting standards
- Conducting complex system analysis and design of business process involving evaluation of current and proposed information
- Providing technical and analytical support for process improvement initiatives
Competencies
The ideal candidate will demonstrate competencies in the following areas:
- Providing analytical support to process development and improvement efforts
- Applying design thinking skills, conceptual knowledge of business processes and technology to tackle complex business processes and procedural problems
- Supporting a cross-functional team by providing business process reviews and analysis which lead to process improvement
- Providing critical review or similar engineering research and development methods to bring disparate technologies together to solve system issues
- Having a thorough understanding of the business functions for which applications are used, interfaces with business and IT cross-function teams
- Having a thorough understanding of planning, analysis, and testing techniques required to support an enterprise business system
- IT Business Management
- Information Technology Management
- Process Management
- Business Process Analysis
- IT Management
- IT Asset Management
- Business Process Integration
- IT Service Management
- Business Process Improvement
- IT Project Management
- Time Management
- IT Change Management
- Quality Management System
- Product Information Management
- Technical Management
Tools and technologies
- Web-based Software
- Embedded Services
- Microsoft Project Server
- Microsoft Applications
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Project
- SQL Server Integration Services
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Oracle Applications
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Oracle SQL Developer
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Suite
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Office
- SAP Applications
Reporting relationship
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Direct reports (if appropriate)
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Qualifications
Education
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Certifications
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Other relevant qualifications
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Key Attributes
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Experience
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Working conditions (if required)
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Physical requirements (if appropriate)
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