Dear Fellow Professional,
We currently have a *6 Months Contract* opportunity for a *Business Analyst*with our direct client located in *Berkeley heights, NJ.* *Summary:* · The incumbent plays a key role in working with the Commercial and Risk Management Operations function to: · Understand business objectives, processes, and strategies · Support IT efforts to develop and maintain the portfolio of system needs · Provide subject matter expertise in the functional area as it relates to system capabilities · Define business and user requirements for new systems and system enhancements · Respond to application production support issues · Drive collaboration between the business and IT colleagues, constructively resolve conflicts and properly influence key stakeholders · Work with business colleagues to develop and support strategies for business process improvements through information systems automation. · Support the use of IT standards and tools *Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following: * · Serve as voice of IT with business colleagues · Serve as advisor on using IT capabilities to further enable business activities · Understand IT strategies, policies, standards, and work practices; and, effectively represent them to the business · Prepare business cases and associated materials required to initiate a project · Work with IT colleagues to develop resource estimates and timelines · Act as functional project manager for new systems or enhancements to existing systems · Proactively manage changes in project scope or schedule and assess their impact on budgets, business processes or other initiatives · Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, user, and non-functional requirements · Develop business area process models, activity diagrams and use cases · Prepare simulations of user requirements · Map application capabilities to requirements to ensure that business needs are met · Own and prepare test scripts and expected results for user acceptance testing (UAT) based on business and user requirements · Own and author UAT Plan and UAT Results Report · Develop and manage data to be utilized for UAT test cases · Identify application defects, correlate with detailed business and user requirements, and assign priorities based on business input · Respond to unresolved production support issues and participate in analysis and resolution on behalf of the business · Identify, track, and maintain an inventory of business needs to be defined in detail for application systems · Prepare documentation consistent with standards for documents such as requests for proposals (RFP), service level requirements (SLR), training documents, user manuals, and work practices. · Assist with the development and execution of change management and training throughout the organization during the implementation and ongoing use of system applications · Understand project management and contribute to defining work plans and keeping track of progress · Facilitate meetings with business colleagues on IT topics *Skills/Knowledge Requirements:* · 6+ years experience as a Business Analyst with requirements elicitation, documentation, testing, training · Ability to follow pre-determined schedules · Proficient with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project Management tools · Requirements management tools such as Blue Print Requirements Center, Requisite Pro, or similar · Intermediate to expert level in developing and leveraging BI tools like Tableau, QlickView, Business Objects etc a must. · Strong intermediate to expert level understanding and experience with data solutions in Pharma Commercial envrionment. · Pharmaceutical, Bio-Technology, Life Science industry experience · Project experience with COTS and Web-based requirements, design, or development · Business analysis certification a plus · Six Sigma, Lean or Business Process Change Techniques a plus *Functional Knowledge:* · Awareness of business and enterprise architecture · Awareness of regulatory compliance and role of systems in supporting compliance · Understands fundamentals of Systems Development Life Cycle · Understands fundamentals of system testing *Position Skills:* · Business acumen · Financial acumen · Project task management · Meeting facilitation · Stand up presentation · Written communication · Influencing of colleagues to positive outcome · Analysis and problem solving This is with our direct client. If interested Please do send across your resume If this is of no interest to you we appreciate if you can refer anyone whom you know would be a good fit -- Regards, Vijay Peterson Take Solutions Phone: 609-720-1002 x 9253| Fax: 732-875-0448 Email: [email protected] | www.takesolutions.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SRAOSS REKS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sraoss-reks. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
