Business Analyst
US Tech Solutions
- San Francisco, CA
- Contract
- Full-time
- Cultivate and foster trusting relationships with business partners in Finance through frequent face to face interactions
- Be able to identify opportunities for simplification and automation of Finance processes
- Work with Finance partners to translate business requirements into functional requirements and specifications
- Influencing business partners to distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
- Analyze and document business processes, workflows and use cases for solution design
- Partner with Global IT Solution Center team to ensure requirements for new solutions and enhancements are managed and delivered effectively
- For proposed solutions, gather and evaluate information from multiple data sources
- Create and maintain solution design and ensure that the final solution meets the customer's needs
- Ensure Global IT Solution Center team delivers and maintains operational procedure and solution documentation
- Utilize project management skills to develop testing, validation and implementation plans and processes to ensure the solution is fit for purpose
- Thoroughly train end-users
- Work with Global IT Solution Center team to efficiently troubleshoot issues
- Proactively coordinate retrospective sessions to review and capture lessons learned
- Strong and quick learning mind-set
- Ability to understand the clients' financial processes and business
- Ability to adapt in a dynamically changing business environment
- Ability to lead a project
- Communicate technical concepts in non-technical terminology
- Ability to create work effort estimations
- Ability to prioritize, manage and deliver multiple projects simultaneously
- Good communication and presentation skills both written and verbal
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Negotiation skills and problem solving
- Not afraid to take risks
- Lead from every seat
- 4+ years of experience in business analysis in Finance area
- BS/BA Degree in finance, information management, or other related field of study is required
- Experience overseeing the building of analytical solutions is required
- Experience in SAP Finance, SAP BW reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP S3 and SAP S4 is required
- Previous Biotech/pharma experience
- Posses project management skills