Senior Lead Analyst

Paramount Pictures; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global media and entertainment company as a Sr Lead Analyst within the Global Scheduling Platform team. You will support business units by defining requirements, implementing solutions, and enhancing business processes, contributing to increased efficiency and productivity in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of analysis experience required.
• Experience with SDLC methodology and project management preferred.
• Media industry and scheduling management experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define, analyze, and document user requirements and procedures.
• Lead design efforts for new solutions and process improvements.
• Conduct reviews and prepare groundwork for developing systems.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Project Management

Problem Solving

Strategic Thinking

Organizational Skills

Technology Understanding

Education

Experience in Systems and Analysis

Tools

SDLC Methodology

Data Flow Analysis

Object Modelling

Workflow Analysis

Job description

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Is this the role for you?

This position is within the Global Scheduling Platform team at Paramount. The Sr Lead Analyst will work with the business units, learn their business, understand their requirements and provide technical solutions to meet and support those requirements. They will work to implement new solutions to support the business clients across multiple platforms based on customer's needs and in accordance with Information Security policies.

The Sr Lead Analyst will be responsible for defining, analysing and documenting, user requirements, procedures, problems and leading joint design efforts to offer a new solution or value proposition to customers, automate processing or to improve existing business processes and associated information systems. The Sr Lead Analyst will also be responsible for defining the appropriate methodologies and best practices for performing business analysis and design in the support of core organisational functions and business processes.

What will you be doing?

• Solicits client requirements through interviews, workshops and/or existing systems documentation or procedures.
• Evaluates business requirements for applications and systems integration and service activation, while delivering new or modified software systems enhancements and/or integration solutions.
• Conducts reviews of and analyses business and information technology processes and prepares essential groundwork for the development of systems.
• Participates in the definition, testing, training, implementation and support of system requirements.
• Identifies customer requirements, develops test schedules, creates testing plans and test cases, tracks and documents the development and results of these plans.
• Alerts manager to potential risks and issues of importance.
• Uncovers client requirements via industry standard analysis techniques such as Data Flow and Object Modelling, Case Analysis, Workflow Analysis, and Functional Decomposition Analysis
• Ensures requirements are understood, agreed to and signed off at the appropriate early stages in a project.
• Provides analysis of processes and workflows with suggestions for improvement. Identifies areas where technology can lead to increased efficiency and productivity.
• Understands the functions supported by the current systems. Understand and accommodate the requirement constraints imposed by the current systems.
• Provides detailed analysis resulting in clear, concise and unambiguous system requirements. Requirements analysis will undergo multiple iterations and refinements. Documents detailed use cases that cover all alternate and exception flows. Supplements use cases with real world scenarios.
• Provides UI mock-ups. Leads design discussions and identifies design options.
• Provides user documentation and training for the system.
• Must be available for on call support nights and weekends.
• Interacts with others in the business and IT organisation.
• Works with providers of software and hardware products as well as consulting vendor service providers
• Prioritise assignments in a high visibility mission critical system
• Establish and oversee the customer's initial adoption, training and development of standard methodologies to build a great foundation before and during initial roll outs
• Troubleshoot issues quickly and appropriately by identifying immediate remediation, determining root cause, and coordinating long term solution.

What are we looking for?

• Must be self-motivated, proactive individual who can work independently as well as within a group setting.
• A minimum of five years of analysis experience with previous supervision or project management experience a strong plus
• Demonstrated track record of defining systems that lead to increased efficiency and productivity through the use of technology
• Demonstrated track record of implementing enterprise solutions.
• Documented experience with SDLC methodology and process related to projects
• Excellent analytical, communication (both verbal and written), facilitation/organisational skills
• Strategic, innovative thinking and vision
• Strong persuasion skills
• Strong business insight
• Excellent analytical and communication (both verbal and written) skills
• Solid understanding of technology
• Comfortable learning, using and explaining new technology
• Strong organisation and time management skills
• Media Industry experience an advantage
• Scheduling and Media management experience an advantage (Operative - IBMS / MediaGenix WHATS'On)

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Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA, PARAA) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic studios, networks and streaming services, Paramount's portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. Paramount delivers the largest share of the U.S. television audience and boasts one of the industry's most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, the company provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions.

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.

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