Lead Business Analyst - Finance

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Reviews and analyzes finance business requirements
2. Collaborates with business partners to analyze and understand business problems/needs
3. Facilitates project kick-offs with the project team and aligns on roles and responsibilities
4. Facilitates business requirements gathering sessions with the business owners and key technical resources
5. Elicits business and user requirements from business partners using a variety of Industry Standard/Best Practices techniques
6. Translates the business and user requirements into system requirements
7. Documents, categorizes, and prioritizes business, user and system requirements
8. Validates requirements for quality attributes, such as clarity, conciseness, correctness, completeness, testability, and traceability
9. Makes recommendations and proposes technical/non-technical solutions to solve business problems and meet business requirements
10. Partners with business stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and success metrics for proposed solutions
11. Collaborates with cross-application teams to design comprehensive solutions based on business and system requirements
12. Creates and documents functional specifications, use cases, and designs
13. Reviews and approves project documentation, including estimates, RACIs, project plans, and technical blueprints
14. Reviews and approves (or creates, as needed) QA documentation, including test plans, test schedules, traceability and coverage matrices, test cases and test results
15. Drives execution of testing cycles and creates testing sign-off documentation, as needed
16. Provides subject matter expertise and oversight to QA providers, as needed
17. Supports business stakeholders with UAT
18. Provides subject matter expertise to support providers as needed; secures that business practices are represented in support scripts and incident management activities
19. Understands current and future procedures, including procedures for the entire enterprise
20. Defines and documents business needs and requirements; generates project business cases
21. Participates in project and portfolio reviews to balance project’s alignment with business cases
22. Proactively recommends enhancements to existing business applications and IT procedures
23. Persuades internal and external stakeholders of the new technology and strategies
24. Works with the project team to develop a project plan, including facilitating procedures for manage risks, issues, scope, quality, and general project communication
25. Communicates with project team to delegate tasks and provide regular status of project activities and milestones
26. Tracks scope changes of each projects, gathers data, and analyzes impact of changes and makes recommendations to the project manager.
27. Keeps accurate records of committed, expended and forecast costs and oversee all organizational project costs to determine and verify the cost variance analysis on actual spending against the budget
28. Develops timely, accurate, and in-depth analysis of project costs and schedules, providing corrective action and recommendations
29. Manages project issues and risks; submits project risks analysis and impact to project manager
30. Communicates and collect updates from suppliers and analyze impacts to project schedule
31. Identifies cost-savings opportunities through project completion ahead of schedule and proposed cost reductions
32. Analyzes the impact of project change requests as to the timeline, costs/budget and resource
33. Mentors BA Finance Processing in business analysis practices and framework; review quality of work and manages integration of team members’ work

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

1. A Senior high school graduate or college undergraduate of business, business administration, finance or accounting, management information systems or similar is desiredprovided that the candidate has the required relevant work experience indicated and with the approval of the hiring manager and department head.
2. Over 3 years of working experience
3. Experience in any of project management methodologies and techniques (Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma, ASAP (SAP), PERT, Critical Path, Lean, PMI, Waterfall, etc.) is required
4. Proficiency with project management tools (Zoho, MS Project, Wrike, Jira, Trello, Basecamp, Slacks, Confluence, Asana, etc.) and basic SQL is desired
5. Familiar of any ERP solutions (SAP, Oracle, IFS, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage Intacct, etc.) is required
6. Extensive experience in flowchart and diagram tools (MS Visio, Draw i.o, Lucid Chart, Smart Draw, ABC Flowcharter, etc.) is required
7. Project Management certifications (PMBook, PMI, Prince, Six Sigma, etc.) is an advantage
8. Experience in creating detailed reports and analysis
9. Must be very detail-oriented so as to avoid the possibility of errors and serious loss
10. Good planning, organizational, and time management skills
11. Must have basic knowledge on project control techniques and principles, and ability to perform comprehensive forecasting and analysis
12. Good communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
13. Must be self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
14. Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
15. Display strong analytical and problem-solving skills