Business Analyst - South San Francisco, United States - W3Global Inc

Description

Job Description

Job Description

Role:
Business Analyst

Location:
South San Francisco, CA (On- site)


Job Description:

The role of a Business Analyst is to partner with Finance and various local and global groups on the delivery of artificial intelligence (AI), insight generation, planning and reporting solutions to Finance.

He/she is curious, open-minded and has a strong desire to obtain knowledge and understanding of the business. Through close business partnership and advisory, he/she delivers high quality technical solutions, enhancements, and process improvements. They apply their strong understanding of Finance processes to develop business requirements for solutions that they also execute on.

His/her work style heavily involves collaboration and communication with other key players and stakeholders in Technology and Finance across the client company.

Key responsibilities of this role include the following:

• 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

We are looking for candidates with the following skills:

• 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

Qualifications of candidates:

• 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 R3 and SAP S4 is required

Desired Candidates:

• Previous Biotech/pharma experience
• Posses project management skills