Sr. Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Mandatory skills: Four-year degree in field such as Information Technology, Business, or similar field or related work experience. Experience (5+ years) as a Business Analyst across a number of projects. Experience in business analysis techniques, such as information gathering methods, requirements documentation, process modeling and process mapping. Excellent communication skills, highly experienced in storytelling and deck creation. Strong understanding of all stages in a project lifecycle and delivery approaches, e.g. waterfall, agile, etc. Experience with very large highly complex global projects. 4 year degrees in Technology, business or related field

This position is for a very large highly complex global project. Need experience with large projects, diverse stakeholder groups.

TBA will support the HM obtaining project funding, project communications, process mapping, etc. Communication skills are paramount, the ability to tell a story and sell ideas in a sleek clean deck is a must, and examples will be requested. Stylized deck presentations to communicate vision and project, story building is required. Agile/Hybrid environment 5-7 years of experience is required. Supporting a supply chain/warehouse project - previous warehouse/supply chain experience. Prior Disney experience is a plus.

Role Overview

1. Provides some technical guidance and oversight. a. Leads in moderately complex analysis, providing guidance and oversight. b. Supports the development of business analysis best practices for the organization. c. Recommends improvements to processes and technology that improve the effectiveness of the team. 2. Supports pre-project business problem elicitation, feasibility and business case definition. a. Works with the business to determine the real issue that needs to be solved or the opportunity to do things differently. b. Develops moderately complex business cases, in particular ensuring benefits align to strategic and tactical business objectives. c. Supports the business in business, technical and financial feasibility assessments. D. Creates all communication documentation and decks for the project 3. Gathers business requirements. a. Works with the business to capture and document requirements (both functional and non-functional) using a range of techniques such as workshop facilitation, document analysis, site visits, use cases, scenario modeling, task and workflow analysis. b. Ensures business requirements are concise, complete, specific, and unambiguous and that they are aligned to the strategic and tactical goals of the project and the business. c. Combines all business requirements into a clear, managed, prioritized backlog (agile) or business requirements document (waterfall) for projects of moderate complexity. d. Refines these business requirements to a sufficient level of detail to allow Architects and Software Engineers to design and implement appropriate solutions. e. Provides refined requirements into project iterations in time to allow design/delivery to commence. f. Manages the scope and traceability of requirements throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that they are understood by the project team and met by the delivered solution. 4. Performs process modeling current and to-be. a. Discovers and documents the as-is process by applying various process modeling techniques. b. Identifies high-level solution options for the business and presents these to stakeholders for review. c. Designs and models the to-be process, performing gap analysis and identifying areas for improvement. d. Works with the Business Architect, ensuring business processes are aligned with the business and IT architecture. e. Reviews, and signs off on solution designs, ensuring business requirements are verified, validated and delivered. 5. Ensures requirements traceability through testing. a. Works with the QA team to provide business input into test strategy, test plans, test conditions and UAT plans. b. Coordinates UAT with the business. c. Reviews and signs off on test scripts to ensure requirements are fully tested and met by the delivered solution. 6. Provide business change management support. a. Ensures the benefits, impact and release of all changes are tracked and managed and communicated to relevant stakeholders. b. Shapes the business customer experience through business engagement and stakeholder management activities, including change and support activities. 7. Provides project management support. a. Assists the Project Manager in identifying and managing risks, issues and dependencies. c. Assists the team in resolving any questions related to requirements or process. d. Delivers the required documentation during each stage of the project. e. Supports the review of contracts drawn up with any third party suppliers to ensure that they accurately reflect and meet the needs of the business. g. Supports the Project Manager in post-implementation reviews and incorporates lessons learned into future work.