Remote Business Analytics Specialist

Pearson; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Specialist, Business Analytics to ensure we solve the right business problems by deeply understanding stakeholder needs, processes, and outcomes. You will work with business users, SMEs, product owners, developers, data engineers, and QA teams.

You will lead elicitation, analyze processes, and create critical documentation and models while collaborating across disciplines to deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Strong requirements elicitation and analysis skills.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management.
• Experience translating business processes into Agile requirements.
• Problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Strong consensus-building and delivering value to the business.
• Business acumen with data/BI understanding.
• Experience with data, reporting, BI, or data warehousing.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements elicitation with stakeholders.
• Analyze business processes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Create and maintain: business rules and requirements documentation, business use cases, process models.
• Collaborate with technical teams to ensure requirements are feasible.
• Manage stakeholder communications and expectations.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Facilitation

Communication

Stakeholder management

Agile requirements

Problem-solving

Critical thinking

Influence without authority

Consensus building

Business acumen

Data/BI experience

Jira

Confluence

Education

BA/BS degree in Business/IS/CS or related

IIBA/PMI/Scrum Alliance certs preferred

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Specialist, Business Analytics to ensure we solve the right business problems by deeply understanding stakeholder needs, processes, and outcomes. You will work with business users, SMEs, product owners, developers, data engineers, and QA teams.

You will lead elicitation, analyze processes, and create critical documentation and models while collaborating across disciplines to deliver measurable business value.