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Senior Business Analyst / Senior Project Analyst

Duration:0-12 month(s)

Description/Comment:
The Sr. BA, Product Development will develop a productive partnership with business stakeholders at all levels and support the Manager, Product Owner to guide product development toward delivery of integrated, efficient, and intuitive business systems.

Position Summary:
The Sr. BA must have experience designing, implementing and supporting applications and services, to support Motion Pictures Production. Ya or she will bring that experience to bear, as well as build a deep understanding of current and future technologies associated with the Studio businesses they support; they will be seen as an expert by Studio Technology and business partners alike. Ya or she will identify current and future business needs and determine how best to meet those needs. This includes working with the business and the technology teams to gather requirements for new solutions, working with specialists to define intuitive solutions, understanding business processes, and systems and staying abreast of current trends in the marketplace.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Liaise business requirements from stakeholders to all necessary parties
• Act as the primary point of contact for the development and maintenance of 3rd party vendor reporting software (PaaS)
• Define, groom and accept user stories in JIRA based on stakeholder requests for new and existing reports
• Administration duties to include regular user access audits and projects related to maintenance of cloud instance infrastructure, manage relationships with vendors
• Partner with Senior Business Analysts/Product Teams for other Studio applications to identify data sources and required elements for new data connections
• Partnering with development team, design dashboards, dossiers, and other visualizations within Microstrategy to meet business needs
• In close partnership with the Manager and business stakeholders, develop the product vision and product roadmap
• Define and measure KPIs that support project business case(s) and recurring spend
• Communicate all successes, opportunities and risks in formal communications

Basic Qualifications:

• To be successful in this role, experience managing a diverse portfolio of applications that are heterogeneous in nature is necessary, for example: 3rd party vendor apps, in-house apps, financial systems, workflow management software, reporting platforms, artificial intelligence, and proof of concepts as well as mature applications.
• Strong written and verbal skills plus the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences at all experience levels is essential.
• The ability to present complex processes and abstract ideas in meaningful visual representations is important in this position.
• Strong project management skills, resource and timeline management, risk assessment, and the ability to work with external contractors and consultants is core to performing well this role.

Required:

• 7+ yrs of experience performing business analysis within a large enterprise covering both business and information technology domains
• 5+ years of Product Ownership experience
• 3+ yrs of experience using Agile SCRUM methodology
• 3+ yrs of experience using MicroStrategy (MCE/cloud preferred) or other BI tool
• Strong problem-solving skills
• BA/BS Required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of film production process preferred
• Financial dashboard experience preferred
• Experience building and understanding SQL queries a plus
• Certified Agile Product Owner a plus
• Experience with other BI tools, such as PowerBI or Tableau a plus

Required Education:

• BA/BS Required

MUST HAVES:

• 7+ yrs of experience performing business analysis within a large enterprise covering both business and information technology domains
• 5+ years of Product Ownership experience
• 3+ yrs of experience using Agile SCRUM methodology
• 3+ yrs of experience using MicroStrategy (MCE/cloud preferred) or other BI tool
• Strong problem-solving skills
• BA/BS Required

Additional Notes:
Open to Hybrid or 100% Remote
Interview Process will be 1-2 rounds
Duration: 12-18 month assignment