Alimentiv is hiring a
Sr. Business Analyst

Summary

The Senior Business Analyst (Sr. BA) is a global home-based position that involves driving complex assignments, guiding enterprise level solutions, analyzing information systems, leading stakeholder engagements, facilitating projects, improving processes, designing solutions, and ensuring compliance with policies and SOPs. The salary ranges from $95,500 to $159,000 per year plus bonus.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree + 7-9 years of related experience
• Comfortable with ambiguity, must be able to establish a course of action in an environment of conflicting priorities
• Must have very strong quantitative and analytical abilities
• Proven ability to work independently and part of a team and meet important deadlines
• Facilitation skills and business process mapping and analysis experience are essential
• PMI-PBA/IIBA Certification considered strong assets
• Knowledge of current programming and data analytics languages/tools. Statistical analysis skills are an asset
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects using strong time and task management skills
• Experience working with different project methodologies like Agile, Iterative, Incremental and Waterfall
• Experience leading and managing large scale process improvement initiatives
• Process modeling and analysis skills including but not limited to information gathering, gap analysis between current and future state along with root cause analysis
• Experience with AWS/Azure, Data Catalogs and Power BI is an asset
• Comfortable analyzing large datasets, identifying inefficiencies, inaccuracies and making recommendations
• Strong conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Drives assignments of moderate to high complexity
• Guides enterprise level solutions
• Trains and supports other Business Analysts
• Analyzes information and operational systems
• Identifies and mitigates risks associated with systems/processes
• Leads and facilitates stakeholder engagements across the organization
• Builds and maintains relationships with all stakeholders
• Conducts detailed and structured analysis to understand strategic priorities, business objectives, identifies problems or opportunities
• Maintains an organizational level view of the interdependencies of processes, systems and functions when assessing objectives
• Uses established modelling techniques, methodologies to clearly communicate the business and technical visions
• Evaluates the ongoing effectiveness of systems in meeting their intended objectives, recommending improvements in both technology and processes
• Coordinates with vendors for application support, including managing service level agreements, incident resolution, and contract negotiations
• Measures the success of changes implemented through key performance indicators (KPIs) and user feedback
• Prepares and presents analysis summaries, recommendations, and project updates to stakeholders and senior management
• Creates and maintains comprehensive documentation including but not limited to process flows, data dictionaries, business cases, user stories, and audience dependent requirements specifications
• Ensures projects are delivered on time and within budget, keeping all stakeholders informed of progress and appropriately escalating any roadblocks
• Supports the complete lifecycle of applications, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance
• Evaluates the effectiveness of existing processes, makes recommendations / introduces new ideas to streamline business processes
• Enhances business processes, cost-benefit, operations, and information flow
• Works with Data Engineer / Developers to build data solutions in Microsoft Azure that provide new data insights
• Explores ways of integrating systems with Microsoft Azure
• In consultation with end users develops dashboards and automated reporting solutions to track key performance indicators (KPIs) and business metrics
• Collaborates with the appropriate stakeholders to design solutions that meet the business needs
• Provides input towards the development and administration of standards and guidelines

Benefits

• $95,500 - $159,000 a year
• + bonus