JR BUSINESS ANALYST job New York New York
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JR BUSINESS ANALYST Job



Employer Name: CONFIDENTIAL SpiderID: 3226960
Location: New York, New York Date Posted: 1/23/2012
Wage: 75k-85k Category: Business/Management
Job Code:
Number Of Openings: 1

Job Description:
We are looking for an excellent Business Analyst with extensive requirements gathering experience that is ready for the challenge that a global program brings. This is great opportunity to work in the fast moving media business for one of the biggest industry players combined with a fantastic client facing program.

Client Reporting Program

This program is part of the Global IT department and has the responsibility for developing and maintaining a planning and client reporting solution for all regional and global client teams across the 4 main brands in the comapny. We have recently secured funding for a 5 year multi-million dollar program and are actively seeking to hire the correct team to successfully execute this program in line with the timescales and strategy that has been defined.

In order to meet business requirements in a timely and cost efficient manner it is policy of the company’s technology to “buy, configure and implement” commercial applications where possible. The overall solution envisaged for this program fits into this strategy and has the following projects:

1. Configuration and implementation of an industry standard advertising planning tool on a per client basis on a worldwide basis

2. Integration into the infrastructure

3. Data warehouse construction and report definitions

4. Retirement of the existing solution

Role Outline

Working in a small agile team, the role will comprise of the following aspects:

1. Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis

2. Interpret these business issues, opportunities and user requirements and distinguish between the real business needs vs. user desires

3. Proactively communicate to all stakeholders with up to date, relevant information

4. Capture user requirements through User Stories using Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), workflow diagrams & documentation where necessary to ensure that knowledge is retained within the team and organization

5. Assist with testing code to ensure that it meets the minimum code quality standards

6. Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams

7. Follow the in-house agile software development lifecycle and suggest improvements where they are identified





Job Requirements:
Person Specification

The successful candidate will have the following experience and attributes:

Essential Skills

University educated with a good degree from an established university

Skilled Business Analyst with 5 years experience of working on technical projects in the Advertising sector

Extensive experience of working closely with development teams, products owners, end users and business stakeholders.

Commercial experience of working within an agile development team for over 2 years

Deep experience of agile and traditional business analysis techniques – Business Process modeling, Scenarios, User Stories, Use Cases etc.

Possesses a good understanding of technology trends and movements

Eperience of integration projects

Experience of working with 3rd party software houses that are not based in the same country and geographically dispersed project teams



Desirable Skills

Exposure of working for a large multinational blue chip organization

Experience of performing analysis on integration projects

Exposure to the Microsoft .Net platform

Exposure to SharePoint 2007 & an understanding of SharePoint 2010

SOx compliance awareness



Personal attributes

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts

Hard working and committed to the organization, will be prepared to work until the job is complete

Flexible approach to working on projects, prepared to travel internationally when necessary

Loves working in technology projects, and continually keeps up to date with technology advancements

Fits well into a team, yet can drive requirements gathering without being micro-managed


Job Criteria:
Start Date: ASAP
Position Type: Full-Time Permanent
Years of Experience Required: 4
Education Required: Bachelors
Overnight Travel:
Vacation Time:


Job Benefits:
Health/Dental Benefits, Paid Holidays, Vacations, and Sick Leave

Contact Information:
Contact Name: Nicole Finucane Russo Company Type: Staffing Agency
Company: CSS
City: New York
State: New York
Zip: 10001

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