Associate Manager - Business Analyst

Description

The candidate must possess in-depth functional knowledge of the process area and apply it to operational scenarios to provide effective solutions. He/she must be able to identify discrepancies and propose optimal solutions by using a logical, systematic, and sequential methodology. It is vital to be open-minded towards inputs and views from team members and to effectively lead, control, and motivate groups towards company objects. Additionally, he/she must be self-directed, proactive, and seize every opportunity to meet internal and external customer needs and achieve customer satisfaction by effectively auditing processes, implementing best practices and process improvements, and utilizing the frameworks and tools available. Goals and thoughts must be clearly and concisely articulated and conveyed, verbally and in writing, to clients, colleagues, subordinates, and supervisors.

Role and responsibilities:

• Define and document business requirements
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications
• Perform all levels of data analysis, including data mappings, data feeds, data modelling (both relational and message), and data transformation as related to an Enterprise Environment
• Develop fully defined logical and physical data models as related to assigned task and/or project
• Document technical requirements, system diagrams, and other deliverables
• Attend system design reviews with developers, quality assurance testers and end users
• Conduct impact assessment on applications when new functions/features are proposed or designed
• Be involved with project plans detailing the expected level of effort and time required and consistently meet the allocated milestones
• Take the initiative to suggest new standards, implement new strategies and take on special projects
• Strong familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle
• Ability to do product and pricing benchmarking exercises independently
• Good team player, able to balance the needs of stakeholders and IT, and able to manage internal IT conflicts and demands as needed
• Ability to prepare standard and ad-hoc presentation decks in a timely manner on required topics, from high level functional overview to detailed technical overview of key data flows
• Ability to effectively engage and work with a global team
• Assisting the project managers and development managers to keep project status information up to date, to identify risks and mitigate against them

Technical and Functional Skills:

• MBA from reputed institutes
• Significant experience with software development life cycle and web technologies
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project) tools
• Ability to break down business problems into logical tasks