Business Analyst

Overview

Baseline Business Analysts lead our efforts to define, gather, and document client business requirements as they relate to data warehousing, data integration, data management, and business analytics projects. Business Analysts turn business requirements into vision statements, roadmaps, and data and functional requirements. They build alignment between business and IT through proper setting of user expectations, communication of requirements, and the development of a shared vision.

Baseline Business Analysts have strong industry knowledge and are experts on the use of data to support business strategy and execution. They communicate with, and build credibility with, all levels of business stakeholders through superior listening, questioning, and example-sharing skills.

Baseline Business Analysts use their creativity to develop high impact client deliverables in MS PowerPoint and MS Word. They focus on identifying the solution and how to get there, not just on the problem itself.

Responsibilities

• Lead Baseline assessment projects to identify issues surrounding the management and use of data as a corporate asset, perform root cause analysis, and develop high level road maps for success.
  
• Perform analysis of business requirements, helping the client to distill the “need, pain, or problem” that has created the data warehouse, data integration, data management or business analysis opportunity. Document interrelations and overlaps (users, functionality, data, etc.) where appropriate.
• Organize, architect, and facilitate requirements interviews and meetings.
• Develop strong credibility with clients and earn trusted advisor status.
• Conduct one-on-one interviews with client stakeholders to collect detailed requirements.
• Author business requirements documents for clients.
• Assist client Executive Sponsor in defining high profile business opportunities for new projects.
• Analysis of client requirements to develop vision statements, road maps, and solution portfolios.
• Complete impact analysis of candidate projects as they relate to staffing, skill set delineation, cost/benefit impacts, risk factors, training, and long-term support.
• Utilize Baseline’s standard practices and methods for requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation.
• Lead development of the assessment project deliverable and the presentation to the client.
• Disseminate and explain business requirements to project development staff, including data modelers, data stewards, and DBAs to ensure complete understanding and hand-off of business issues.
  

Skills & Experience

• Excellent communication skills are mandatory, and the key to success in this position. Writing, speaking, listening, interviewing, and presenting skills are required.
  
• Ability to lead meetings at the executive level.
  
• Experience as a traveling consultant.
  
• Ability to successfully interview business and IT stakeholders 1 on 1 and identify the key issues and problems that currently exist.
  
• Skilled at critical thinking and problem analysis. Able to perform root cause analysis, and identify the underlying problems, not just their symptoms.
  
• Knowledge and experience in at least one vertical industry, including familiarity with cultural and historical issues in that industry.
  
• An understanding of “process,” particularly inputs and outputs and linear implementation.
• Understanding of process flow conventions such as IDEF or flowcharting is a plus.
  
• Past experience as a business analyst on a data warehouse, data integration, or data management project.
  
• A minimum of 10 years of experience working on business-driven data solutions.
  
• An understanding of organizational dynamics, team building, and meeting facilitation.
  
• A conceptual understanding of the terms “Decision Support,” “customer,” “client-server,” “iterative development,” and “Quality Assurance.”
  
• Knowledge of data solutions, and hands on experience with data, such as a data modeler, analyst, administrator, etc.
  
• Successful project management experience.
  
• Proficient in MS Office tools, including MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Outlook. Ability to create deliverables with powerful visuals and text to support findings and recommendations.
  
• A college degree is required.

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