Business Analyst Sr
Senior Business Analyst (Remote)
Our client, a leading health care company dedicated to revolutionizing the industry, is looking for a Senior Business Analyst for their Portland, Oregon location. This Business Analyst applies analytical skills, project management, financial analysis and subject matter expertise in medium-sized projects to identify opportunities for improvement, design solutions, and manage improvement efforts across IT Delivery Operations to a successful conclusion. Quantifies and describes improvement opportunities by leading the process and financial analysis activities, working effectively with business and technical subject matter experts across organizational lines, bringing a business-oriented but cross-functional perspective to leadership and project teams resulting in a total system solution that meet goals and objectives.
This fully remote position is for six months. If you think you’d be a good fit, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities for Senior Business Analyst:
- Works with leadership to triage and evaluate Delivery Operations processes and workflows to determine appropriate course of action.
- Contributes to submission of key work initiatives and Business Cases for approval by appropriate governance committees as directed. Understands how initiatives impact our overall work portfolio and budgets.
- Works with IT, StratFi, and other groups to monitor spend and to set up efficient processes for building transparency to variance across our portfolios and budgets. Helps translate financial information into actionable steps for leadership team.
- Participates in projects as a team member, and/or makes significant contributions to team effectiveness by improving the methodology, tools, and/or internal processes.
- Business Analysis and Business Process Engineering (BPE) – Consistently uses Business Analysis and BPE methods, templates, and related tools to produce timely, high-quality deliverables for initiatives.
- Applies analytical / quantitative approach to problem solving - knows how to obtain and use data, and comfortable with statistical concepts.
- Creates cost savings reports, (ROI, NPV) for process improvement efforts and updates as necessary for internal customers.
- Performs and baselines Quality and Production data for functional area.
- Develops realistic and useful plans and schedules for completion. Accountable for the completion of tasks, problem resolution, meeting or exceeding deliverables, and keeping leaders apprised of progress across all locations.
- Supports the preparation of status reports and other project reports and presentation of information to organizational leadership, project teams and client/customer groups.
- Drives process development and improved workflow efforts. Improves personal and team-work approaches as a continual process improvement focus in-line with management’s stated priorities.
- Independently identifies process and business improvement opportunities, conducts extensive cost-savings analysis, develop plans of action, implements plan, analyses results and money saved.
- Provides valuable insights, coaching and instruction to both internal and external team members regarding BPE methods, tools, deliverables content, and related documents and plans.
- Leads large, complex meetings including multiple levels of management and can work with complex political situations.
- Designs, develops, and directs the performance of acceptance testing of new reports, programs and models.
- Manages not only their tasks, but other team members on complex size enterprise-wide work efforts in support of the growth and innovation required to scale operational efficiencies. When appropriate, works in partnership with the Architects, Developers, Configuration, Product, Sales and Project Management.
- Uses and leads others in multiple methodologies appropriately (e.g. Agile, Lean, Six Sigma) for enterprise-wide work efforts and can contribute to the maturity and growth of the software delivery lifecycle.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with developers and architects to assess relevant information, validity, to recommend the best solutions to complex business problems.
Requirements for Senior Business Analyst:
- Bachelor’s degree in business management, computer science, healthcare administration or related field
- 8+ years’ experience in defining and analyzing business requirements, process modeling, functional systems design or configuration and/or acceptance testing or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Ability to perform analysis of medium scale business efforts including the ability to discover and describe the current state situation, understand strategic business goals, design and articulate future state, perform gap analysis and make recommendations to business leadership that meet goals and requirements.
- Ability to facilitate data and requirements gathering activities within small to medium sized groups.
- Ability to understand, translate and communicate technical and complex ideas and situations to a wide variety of audiences.
- Demonstrated experience in documentation and modeling of analysis activities through formal techniques including ISO/IEC standards, agile story cards, or other formal methods.
- Experience with business modeling processes through process mapping, use cases, gap analysis, SWOT, FMEA, RASCI, and Ishikawa diagrams.
- Strong testing documentation through test cases and test plans skills.
- Ability to utilize business Analysis tools, including strong proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite; Excel, Visio and PowerPoint
- Experience with Technology Business Management and Business Capability Model frameworks.
- Experience in coaching and training other business analysts.
- Ability to perform analysis of large-scale cross-divisional business efforts including the creation of influential dashboards and presentations that use information to influence senior leadership on business trends and strategies.
- Ability to lead analysis activities for projects and planning and documenting work through project management artifacts such as stakeholder diagrams, business cases, requirements management plans, and project plans and schedules.
- Knowledge of formal process improvement methodologies such as Lean, Lean Six Sigma, or Six Sigma preferred.
- Knowledge of Agile software development or project management methodologies preferred.
- Ability to coach peers and leaders with constructive feedback.
- Understanding of Technology Business Management frameworks.
- Leads cross functional groups to a consensus.
- Able to lead requirements sessions/ interviews for cross functional and highly complex work efforts.
- Ability to lead small teams (3-5) for complex work efforts which includes estimating, coordinating, tracking progress, inspiring other to complete tasks on time, assisting with resolving issues and creating status reports.
- Ability to present and effectively communicate with leadership.
**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
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