Business Analyst - (PS)

For Bangalore based one of the top IT Services company:

a.       Job Information:

·         Business Analyst understands the business issues and data challenges of the given function.

·         Identifies client organization's strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement.

·         Develops complete and accurate business requirements, business process models, data mapping & dictionary, documentation of business & data governance rules and other allied efforts.

b.      Roles & responsibilities:

·         Reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution.

·         Develops functional specifications and assist in system design specifications for client engagements.

·         May work/ act as data stewards who verify/ validate the integrity and quality of the data and will have sound knowledge of the business area and evaluate the effect (defining the costs and benefits) of the requested changes.

·         Work with ‘business’ to define the meaningful and measurable business case.

·         Should liaise with business managers and low-level users to understand and document business objective, business requirements and scope across affected business areas.

·         Works with business owners and delivery work streams to develop optimal solutions and understand other projects in the given functional area.

·         Contribute to defining high-level scope, creation of User Acceptance test plans by being part (being defacto owner) of the UAT and define acceptance criteria.

·         Work with project manager/s to plan analysis work and highlight risks and issues and provides periodic reports to the project manager/ line managers/ business showing progress against outstanding milestones, status, issues, risks and dependencies.

c.       Qualification:

·         Graduate/ Post Graduate

·         Preferred – Writing and executing SQL statements against RDBMS using query execution tools.

• Preferred – Understanding of OLAP/ Reporting platform.

d.      Minimum Experience:

·         7+ years

e.      Must Have:

·         Assists in the facilitation of team and client meetings.

·         Delivers informative, well-organized presentations.

·         Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.

·         Develops relationships with client personnel that foster client ties.

·         Communicates effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions with project management.

·         Continually seeks opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships.

·         Develops functional specifications and assist in system design specifications for client engagements.

·         Manages client expectations effectively.

·         Domain – HR or Finance (Peoplesoft)

f.        Soft Skills:

·         Excellent written, verbal and presentations skills.

·         Facilitation, Mentoring, and Negotiation skills.

·         Experience documenting business processes.

·         Experience documenting business requirements.

·         Problem solving and Critical thinking skills.

·         Strong leadership abilities, including an assertive yet collaborative personality, to affect change across multiple organizations.