Business Data Analyst (Data Mgt/Data Governance)

Business Data Analyst

Apex has an opportunity for a Business Data Analyst for a client in New York. Here are the details:

Position: Business Data Analyst

Location: New York

Duration: 18+ months

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Develop implementation and improvement plans by eliciting complex business requirements from key stakeholders through multiple processes to identify business needs, evaluate requirements and desired outcomes, analyze gap between current and future state and recommend solutions
• Translate business needs into actionable processes by evaluating information gathered from multiple sources, reviewing needs analysis findings, escalating questions, and clarifying issues to create, communicate and define user requirements for the development of effective solutions
• Assess, document, and communicate impact of change to business and individuals by collaborating with internal and external key stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements, accurately define costs, schedule timeline, and evaluate interdependencies to develop business requirements documentation for key stakeholder engagement
• Build relationships with developers and subject matter experts by regularly communicating to establish the technical vision, analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs and gather information to meet requests within area of responsibility and achieve departmental service level agreements
• Influence the adoption of continuous improvement initiatives by assessing alignment of current process, program and systems to business requirements and recognizing opportunities for standardization, increased efficiency, cost reduction, increased quality, and improved user experience to enhance performance of position, team, and company
• Support end-users by reviewing requests, aligning process changes with business requirements, and overseeing and contributing to team development of thorough process documentation to deliver effective and appropriate solutions
• Identify training requirements for assigned projects and business units by providing input to the training plan, supporting the development of training materials and participating in the training for assigned projects as required
• Identify and eliminate risks to complex change implementation by planning user acceptance testing, clarifying, and ensuring developers understand requirements, coordinating users, executing tests, monitoring test completion, escalating issues and soliciting feedback to support accurate testing and alignment with desired outcomes
• Serve as business analyst expert by guiding and mentoring lower-level analysts as required and collaborating with management to ensure team alignment with key stakeholder objectives
• Contribute to a positive work environment by demonstrating cultural expectations and influencing others to reward performance and value “can do” people, accountability, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, creativity, and fun

Must Haves:

• 4+ years of Business analysis and improvement experience
• Data Management and Governance experience (master data, reference data, data governance, metadata, data quality and profiling)

Nice to Haves:

• Business analysis and improvement experience
• Data Management and Governance experience (master data, reference data, data governance, metadata, data quality and profiling)
• Project management experience

Required Skills: Business Analysis

Basic Qualification: Additional Skills: Background Check: Yes

Drug Screen: Yes

Notes: Selling points for candidate: Project Verification Info: Candidate must be your W2 Employee: No

Exclusive to Apex: No

Face to face interview required: No

Candidate must be local: Yes

Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship: Yes

Interview times set: :No

Type of project: Project Management Office

Master Job Title: Bus.