【任职要求】: Business Systems Analyst
Be a strategic partner to the business; enabling them to meet our corporate goals. 4 key areas:
Business Analyst
1. Review / scope BRD’s. Ask questions to get clarity as needed. Make sure the BU requirements are clear.
2. Understand the business need; what is driving their request, what problem is being solved; what feature will this enable, etc.
3. Understand as much of the business process as necessary to complete the project.
4. Understand the data from a business perspective (don’t just bring the data in without understanding it) by performing analysis on the data to ensure familiarity with business users and how they will use the data.
5. Engage with business users. Be assertive about helping them use the data to the fullest and helping them understand their business needs.
6. Analyze the data from a perspective that might be interesting to the BU and touch base with key end users to determine how the data is being used.
7. Ask pertinent questions and perform analysis to ensure the Business requirements are really being met. Understand what the BU is trying to do rather than just taking their requirements at face value.
8. Create Fact Sheets and other support documentation for the data being integrated.
9. Support business and other end users as SAE’s when needed.
10. Background in digital marketing business is a big plus.
Project Manager
1. Drives projects/issues to completion, doesn’t wait around for things to happen; rather IS the agent for making things happen.
2. Takes complete ownership and accountability for their projects.
3. Ability to provide leadership for the team. This means ensuring the team has what they need to do their job. It could be access rights, resources, skills, background, contact information, etc. to lead the team and keep moving the project forward.
4. Develop appropriately detailed project plans that minimize the amount of unplanned activities and allow team members to effectively schedule their work.
5. Identify and track major milestones for project
6. Provide accurate status of project in status report and Tracker.
7. Maintains a list of risks, issues, and mitigations
8. Ability to organize and schedule tasks for the projects.
9. Ability to interact with all levels and types of project stakeholders. The PjM is the hub that connects all the spokes.
10. Ensure all project deliverables are met.
Soft Skills
1. Builds strong relationships and trust through continuously meeting commitments and delivering results.
2. Organizer; takes charge.
3. Listens to what people are saying
4. Solid presentation skills
5. Strong people interaction skills / team player
6. Motivates team members
7. ‘Can Do’ Attitude – willingness to help others
Systems Analyst (Optional)
1. Perform data and systems analysis on source system data (enough to know at least the fields that are needed). ODS is an exception.
2. Ensure source system processes are understood to ensure data can be properly validated.
3. Interact with QA teams when needed to review test plans and test cases.
4. Perform QA testing and follow up when needed. Perform UAT testing when needed.
5. Interact with developers to ensure all questions / issues relating to what they need are met by the PRD. The BSA is responsible for the PRD which contains both Business and Systems requirements.
6. During the PRD phase, perform data analysis to determine the appropriate SQL is being used.
7. Front end requirements need a STM document along with data models. Interact appropriately with BI teams. Test and ensure reports are ‘accurate.’
8. Interact appropriately with data modeling and architecture teams. Systems analysts should have enough knowledge about the various data modeling techniques to ensure the data model meets their ‘known’ and ‘likely’ business requirements.
9. After the implementation, check to ensure production environment is working as expected.