Business Analyst Specialist

Contract position

Minimum requirements:

• 10 years working experience (business or IT) in various analysis roles
• Minimum of 6 years in a senior Business Analyst role
• Typically requires Bachelors degree or equivalent with related demonstrable experience
• Can influence people based on their sound knowledge and experience
• Understands BA Practices, and principles
• These candidates do not need to learn anything
• This person will need to be able to navigate their way around with little to no intervention
• Absolutely essential to have Agile and SAFe experience
• Beneficially if they have dual skills (Process Engineering and Business Analysis)
• Experience with Aris is beneficial.

Responsibilities:

• Develop collaborative relationships through dealing with different cultural customs, and political factors.
• Diffuse and address conflict. Identify where conflicts and/or synergies exist between technologies and business functions.
• Meet business needs through the ability to perform vendor/solution evaluation and solution validation.
• Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in the culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth.
• Understand and embrace the vision and values, leading by example.
• Add value to and seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems.
• Drive the business area by identifying and executing on opportunities.
• Ensure success of high risk or strategic projects.
• Create and maintain an operating plan (business roadmap) for achieving the strategic 
• vision and operating platform, while delivering on expected business results.
• Identify and prioritize business initiatives and produce feasibility studies, cost-benefits and business case documents justifying the investment required.
• Define business vision, goals, objectives, business processes and requirements.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
• Enable skilling and required corrective action to take place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes that will improve the
• functioning of stakeholders' businesses
• Ensure team success
• Promote and contribute to the organization Business Analysis (BA) Centre of Excellence