Principal S2P Business Process Analyst

SEDAA; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A consultancy firm based in the Bay Area is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to act as a liaison between IT and business units. The role is mostly remote, requiring occasional in-person meetings. Candidates should have 7-10 years of relevant experience and strong skills in project management and communication, along with a BA/BS degree.

Qualifications

• 7 to 10 years of experience in similar or related job functions.
• Demonstrated course work and/or training in programming languages used for PG&E applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert consulting to the client, to identify and satisfy client business needs.
• Analyze end-to-end business processes and information needs.
• Propose, evaluate and document alternatives for business problems.
• Lead and/or support recovery of production system issues.

Skills

Project Management understanding

Financial Modelling

Effective communication skills

Education

BA/BS in Business Administration or equivalent

MBA, CPA, CMA desired

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Overview

Senior Business Analyst

LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES CURRENTLY RESIDING IN BAY AREA/NEAR OAKLAND OFFICE.

ASSIGMENT IS MOSTLY REMOTE, IN PERSON TO GO POTENTIALLY ONCE EVERY 2 MONTHS.

Top things looking for:

• Project Management understanding
• Financial Modelling, forecasting understanding
• Effective communication skills

Position Summary:

The Senior Business Analyst acts as the business expert filling a liaison role between the IT development group and business units for development, enhancement, and implementation of new and/or existing systems. Additionally this position provides data and reporting solutions to satisfy informational and performance metrics needs for one or more business functions.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert consulting to the client, to identify and satisfy client business needs.
• Analyze end-to-end business processes and information needs of varying complexity, encompassing one or more Company business functional operations and potentially external entities.
• Understand the client\'s current and future business environment, effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet all business needs.
• Propose, evaluate and document alternatives that will provide the most effective solution to solve business problems including delivery of new business initiatives.
• Anticipate client concerns and questions and provide timely, professional, and client-focused communications via meetings, status reports, phone, and email and follow through with results.
• Prepare communications and make presentations on system enhancements and/or alternatives.
• Provide client support on the effective use of production systems.
• Research potential system issues in transaction processing and data quality.
• Provide timely responses for client inquiries.
• Work with team members, supervisor, and client organizations as appropriate to ensure smooth system operations to minimize impact on business operations and enable the business to achieve results.
• Lead and/or support recovery of production system issues, including business process recovery.
• Define and document business requirements.
• Prepare functional specification documents for one or more applications or one or more system functions.
• Prepare business cases in support of business initiatives.
• Prepare technical specification documents.
• Prepare and/or review test plans and perform quality reviews on test results.
• Perform functional integration testing of transactional processing, data extracts, and reporting.
• Comply with SOX documentation and other standard process requirements as appropriate.
• Configure system parameters or soft tables to enable application functions to perform per specifications.
• Develop queries to extract data or create operational reports using production databases.
• Perform unit, string, and functional integration tests to ensure application solutions and reports satisfy defined functional and/or technical specifications.
• Conduct all work safely and promote safe work practices. Attend all safety meetings and training sessions. Comply with all Utility safety best practices and safety accountability model.
• Demonstrated participation in projects of medium to high complexity. Demonstrated leadership role in medium to high complexity projects.
• Expert technical knowledge of one or more functional areas in PG&E business applications, CC&B, SAP, etc., Project Management skills sufficient to coordinate multi-organizational projects.
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
• MBA, CPA, CMA desired.
• Demonstrated course work and/or training in programming languages used for PG&E applications and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• 7 to 10 years of experience in similar or related job functions.