Freyr - Senior Business Analyst

Job title Senior Business Analyst.Education Masters in Business Administration Management Information Systems, BS Business Administration General Administrative, BS/BA Information Analytics and Reporting, Business Analysis, Business Analytics, data analysis.Role Purpose: Key facilitator on establishing requirements and facilitation of delivery /support of analytical business solutions with the internal team, business stakeholders and external partners against defined processes.Primary Accountabilities, Duties and Responsibilities:- Working with primary Business Stakeholders to understand and document data & insight requirements \ technical specification needs.- Monitor, facilitate, and report around key initiatives / deliveries across multiple stakeholders as aligned to existing process, best practices, and agreed timelines.- Conduct group workshops, focused discussions, interviews and survey required needs for grooming incoming or on-going requests.- Build and establish key strategic relationships within the business and IT teams.- Establish best practices and industry standards for improving operational efficiency.Core Profile:- Ability to profile intended uses of operational process data, and where required, mash-up said operational data with behavioral data.- A passionate visionary who can determine how a solutions pieces fit together and then employs coordinated methods and tools to drive the integration of solutions into and across business processes.- A communicative individual who can focus on key business results by showing the customer that you care about their solutions being developed, are metrics-driven, and can communicate the costs and tradeoffs of your ideas to both the customers and the technical team.- Capacity to understand, plan and then collaborate on the required evolutionary paths for solution integrations and expansions, new technology insertions, and risk identification and mitigation.Essential Communicative Qualities:- Well-respected and influential: The Senior Business Analyst will need the support of peers, teammates, senior IT and business leaders, and therefore must possess the ability to effectively communicate and influence these individuals.- Able to emphasize methodology, modeling, and governance: the Senior Business Analyst needs to be well-versed in the architectural and data modeling principles that support solution delivery.- Technologically and politically neutral: The Senior Business Analyst must be vendor/product-neutral and maintain an objective perspective. Likewise, it is important for the individual to understand enough about the broad range of technologies, in a manner that permits the architect to properly engage in discussions with technical experts and not be swayed by inappropriately biased personal agendas in technical decisions.- Articulate, persuasive, and a good salesperson: the Senior Business Analyst must spend substantial time communicating and educating using the appropriate skills to clearly present and discuss ideas and solutions in a persuasive, compelling manner.- Enthusiastic: The Senior Business Analyst should have a passion for technology, their line-of-work, and systems analysis and design, while thoroughly believing in the Global Regulatory Affairs Analytics Programs mission to move sponsor/customer ahead in the market by providing solutions that help them take advantage of the information and insight generated by the program.Business Qualifications:- Strong, yet balanced, business acumen, along with interpersonal, leadership, and teamwork skills.- Excellent oral and written communication abilities, in parallel with clear and concise presentation skills.- Experience in Shared Services as a business model for service delivery, while remaining cognizant of costs, chargeback models and quality as it relates to such service models.- Demonstrated experience supporting high profile, dynamic projects with multiple constituents, and involving technology development from beginning to end.- Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move towards consensus.- Self-starter, ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, communicate and collaborate when required and continuously delivers solid action-oriented solutions. (ref:iimjobs.com)