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position: senior business analyst (production support)location: remote east coastjob type: direct hire job descriptionthe sr. business analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the needs of business stakeholders. this includes understanding, documenting, and evaluating business processes through interviewing stakeholders. the sr. business analyst elicits, gathers compiles and documents user requirements and translates them into functional requirements for technology solutions with an eye to improving processes and systems, enhancing their sustainability, and delivering maximum return on investment. the sr. business analyst must have a thorough understanding of the business, functional, and technical aspects of the applications used within the portfolio they support. core responsibilitiesevaluate business processes anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies.conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achievingthese benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate this back to the business stakeholders.prepare effort estimation.perform requirements analysis. document and communicate the results of the analysis.translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developersthe project team.analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to business owner(s), developers andor the project team.develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.select, adopt and adapt appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterativeagile) approaches.collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, conducting of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.collaborate with its teams and business partners to evaluate and prioritize work.triage and analyze incidents and problems. provide clear analysis results including business impact.assist test analyst(s) with testing duties as necessary.on-call andor after-hours work required.essential competenciesprofessionalismpersonal accountability, collaboration and teamwork, communication, flexible and adapts to change, service to customers and clients skill qualificationsrequired:proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology developmentexceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skillsability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutionsexcellent documentation skillsfundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skillsexperience creating detailed reports and giving presentationsexcellent planning, organizational, and time management skillsability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly languageexceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as requiredability to translate business requirements of packaged solutionsability to research and understand packaged solution upgrades both minor and major. translates the technical upgrade documentation into business terms the end-user can understand to make decision on. makes recommendation on these upgrades.experience in in agile, waterfall, and hybrid environmentsunderstanding of application development and software development life cycle conceptseffectively participates in teams and moves the team toward completion of goalssystemstechnical knowledge:basic technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and apisdata analysis skills including ability to perform ad hoc sql queriescompetency in microsoft applications including word, excel, powerpoint visio and outlook education and experience qualifications required:bs or ba with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration7-10 or more years related work experience as a business analystpreferred:certification of competency in business analysis (ccba) andor certified business analysis professions (cbap) preferred

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<<summaryflexible and versatile data analyst specializing in developing innovative solutions to organizational problems. advanced knowledge of business intelligence tools, experience d in confirming the accuracy of data in various systems and developing, manage and understanding complex spreadsheets. strong organizational, technical and analytical skills. highlightsmicrosoft excel certified advanced excel modelingdata analystbusiness intelligencespreadsheet managementability to quickly comprehend complex spreadsheets/dataqlikview and qlik sensevisual basic for applicationsbilingual in spanish and englishanalytical thinkingresponsibilityleadershipfast learning of new conceptsexcellent communication skills results-oriented experience 08/2012tocurrentdata analystatlas executive consulting– ,responsabilities: manipulation of data, running pivot tables, v-lookups and formulas in excel creating reports that managers consume.analyzing business data to develop key performance indicators and building dashboards to visualize important trends and goals for decision making.provide strategic recommendations to managersattend administrative assistants requests, providing them information of theirtools: excel, qlikview,vbaachievements:automation of 4 reports which reduced the processing time , response time and risk of error.develop qlickview dashboards.several recognition by my supervisor 11/2010to 08/2012psg mx supply chain – planning support of costumer laptopshewlett packard–city,state,responsibilities:tracked vendors orders by several reports (backlog, shipped, deliveries, inventory and in transit) to ensure the on-time delivery and the customers satisfaction. placed purchase orders in a certain instance of sap, based on planner demands.tools:sap constant velocity use (va02, va03, me21n), excelachievements:identified "bottlenecks" and implemented new and improved processes and policies.implement hp gbs india, transferring weekly supply planning activities and supervising the process (november 2010 – march 2011) 09/2010to 11/2010information management – developer & supporthewlett packard–city,state,responsibilities:developed metrics used to determine inefficiencies and areas for improvement. provide support to users via sharepoint with any problem within a specific tool to ensure quality datatools:microsoft excel, sharepoint. education expected in2010totobachelor of information technology:information technologyiteso-guadalajara,jaliscogpa: skills microsoft excel and access. (reporting, formulas, macros) ( 5 years)advanced visual basic for applications (1 year) intermediate qlikview developer and desinger (1 year) intermediate.