Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business AnalystDallas, TexasCategory: Business Systems AnalysisJob Type: Right To HireLocation: Dallas, Texas 75251Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our Business Management Office ("BMO") within the Office of the CIO. The BMO currently supports certain verticals within Technology, but over time, will support all verticals to provide the CIO with a full landscape of the business operations of Technology. As the BMO grows to support all of technology, existing processes and reporting must be improved upon and automated to scale and be repeatable, where able. The BMO seeks to hire this critical role to reinforce the existing team with both leadership and delivery of existing and routine deliverables while also looking for efficiency gains to scale. The ideal candidate will have at least 8 years of experience with analysis in both Finance and Operations, preferably within a financial services organization or within a technology line of business supporting a financial services enterprise. This individual will work closely with Technology teams and stakeholder groups like Finance and Accounts Payable, among others. The main responsibility of this team player will be to process day-to-day spend requests, issue POs, and generally navigate the end to end approval to spend workflow in support of critical Technology efforts.Key Responsibilities:Support business analysis efforts for Technology, specifically expense management and budgeting.Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Finance and Technology teams) to review new budget and approval to spend requests, to ensure alignment to existing financials.Ability to query data, perform data validation, and troubleshoot reporting anomalies.Act as a point of contact for the BMO, ensuring excellent customer service to internal stakeholders while balancing efficiency.Update budget items throughout the year; able to analyze and understand changes and impacts based on movement in the budget.Able to create, understand, and analyze moderately complex reports.Able to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment while understanding the underlying risks to help re-prioritize work.Able to offer guidance and best practices while collaborating; requires strong executive presence.Facilitate meetings, presentations, and updates for senior management and other key stakeholders. Able to lead by influencing these stakeholder groups.Able to create new business processes and continuously improve existing processes, reports, and methodologies to increase efficiency and quality of deliverables.Ability to be detail-oriented but also understand and communicate the key messages to various Technology leaders.Basic Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree4 to 8 years of related experiencePreferred Qualifications:Strong communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to present complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders; ability to draw out key messages from the data while tying the data back to business needs of the Technology team – identifying the 'so what'.Strong data analysis experience and knowledge of expense management and budgeting processes.Critical thinker with strong organizational skills and detail-oriented with focus on quality and accuracy.Demonstrated ability to manage multiple efforts concurrently while ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery.Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and work independently.MS Office experience with Excel, Visio, PowerPoint.Demonstrable technical skills and ability to learn technology verbiage.Experience tracking and driving deliverables to completionPreferably local to Columbus, OH or Dallas, TX.