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Job Title: Senior Business AnalystLocation: Morrisville, NCContract Duration: 6 months to startWorks with business partners to elicit high-level requirements and captures business needs; understands the customer journey and define user requirements. Engages with business partners and influences project decisions; assesses the risks of various solutions and prioritizes competing business demands. Promotes architectural consistency and usability standards; defines and executes test cases. Identifies opportunities for business-led delivery; coaches employees to make use of technology and information.JOB RESPONSIBILITIESEssential Functions
- Requirements Elicitation: Identifies and documents emerging business requirements; Questions business partner and knowledge worker preferences to identify unique value drivers
- Requirements Management and Analysis: Properly prioritizes business line and enterprise demands; Accurately translates business requirements into functionality; Manages requirements to meet performance expectations
- Creating a Compelling Business Case: Understands industry-specific trends that impact the organization; Clearly articulates benefits in business language; Accurately measures the contribution of IT projects to business value
- Providing Accurate Project Effort Estimates: Manages ambiguity and creates accurate project effort estimates; Accurately quantifies project-specific risks through the development lifecycle
- Architecture Management: Identifies solution interdependencies; Stays abreast and creates awareness of technology developments related to a business problem; Identifies commonalities and suggests a consistent approach across projects in the absence of standards
- Designing for Usability: Engages with knowledge workers in their normal day to-day environment; Effectively conveys knowledge workers preferences to business partners and design teams
- Communications and Change Leadership: Guides team decision making; Provides business partners with an accurate view of challenges to end-user buy-in
- Business Relationship Management: Adjusts customer expectations in accordance with changes in scope; Effectively navigates conflict between multiple business partners; Tailors business partner engagement to business sponsor risk and value preferences
- Design Team Relationship Management: Creates a vision of project success that drives team engagement; Shares best practices and process and environmental knowledge
- Influence: Ensures and advises business stakeholders by actively initiating and influencing what is needed versus how their needs will be achieved
- Analytic Ability: Works with data to identify patterns; Uses judgment to form conclusions that may challenge conventional wisdom, and focuses on the crux of issues to identify high leverage intervention points and strategies
- Communication: Exhibits high levels of engagement with stakeholders and understanding high depths of business context
- Business Results Orientation: Seeks to understand the business needs and deliver prompt, efficient, quality service
- Learning Agility: Rapidly acquires new knowledge and learns new skills
- Primary BA on several medium to large complexity projects
- Bachelor s degree in any field
- Demonstrated knowledge of both traditional Waterfall and Agile/Lean methodologies
- Experience in converting business requirements and functional requirements to use cases, epics, and user stories with acceptance criteria
- Demonstrated ability to quantify resource requirements and measure and communicate proposed project benefits
- Strong risk assessment, problem resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills
- Demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes
- Broad IT domain experience in three or more of the following areas: Applications Development, Enterprise Architecture, Project Management, Vendor Management, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, and Maintenance and Support
- Familiarity with company structure and operations outside of IT
- Excellent written, verbal listening communication skills
- Ability to keep control of the room in a way that is not off-putting; Ability to redirect and refocus conversations with people at different levels when needed
- Self-starter, proactive, strong-business acumen, excellent follow-through
- Proficient with MS Office applications (e.g. Visio, Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.)
- Preferred Professional Certifications including IIBA, ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, CSM, CSPO, PSM, PSPO, PMI-ACP, CSP, SAFe SA, Lean, Kanban, Six Sigma, PMP, etc.
- Preferred experience working with requirements and test management tools such as JIRA, Quality Center, Helix ALM/Test Track, etc.
- Preferred Experience working for a CRO, CCO, or Pharmaceutical company (or specialization / alignment to these industries in a consulting company)
- Functional knowledge of specific Clinical sub-domains (e.g. Study Start Up, Patient Recruitment, Clinical Project Management, Clinical Data Management, Trial Master File, etc.)
- Experience and knowledge of key GxP systems and vendors (e.g. EDC, CTMS, eTMF, PV, Medidata, Veeva, Oracle Argus, etc.)
- Experience creating functional and non-functional requirements for clinical systems, including features and functionality for custom development as well as enhancements for COTS systems
- Experience aligning product roadmaps and system designs with business objectives
- Functional knowledge of specific Corporate sub-domains (e.g. Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Revenue Recognition, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources Operations, Legal Entities, etc.)
- Experience and knowledge of key Corporate and Enterprise systems and vendors (e.g. ERP, Travel / Expense Management; FP&A, ATS, CRM (Customer Relationship Management), CRM (Candidate Relationship Management); Oracle, Concur, Hyperion, Taleo, PeopleFluent, SFDC, etc.)
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