Remote Business Analytics Specialist

Pearson; Salt Lake City (UT); 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 and map stakeholder needs to data initiatives. You will work with users, SMEs, product owners, developers, data engineers, and QA throughout delivery.

Responsibilities include leading elicitation, creating use cases, process models, and documenting business rules. Strong communication and consensus-building are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Strong requirements elicitation and analysis skills.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience translating business processes into Agile requirements.
• Problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Familiarity with influencing without authority.
• Track record of consensus building and delivering business value.
• Business acumen and understanding of data/BI initiatives.
• Experience with data, reporting, BI, or data warehouse projects.
• 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.
• Develop business use cases and process models.
• Collaborate with technical teams to ensure feasibility of requirements.
• Manage stakeholder communications and expectations.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Facilitation

Agile requirements

Problem-solving

Influence without authority

Stakeholder management

Business acumen

Data/BI familiarity

Jira

Confluence

Education

BA or BS degree

IIBA/PMI/Scrum Alliance cert

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Specialist, Business Analytics to ensure we solve the right business problems and map stakeholder needs to data initiatives. You will work with users, SMEs, product owners, developers, data engineers, and QA throughout delivery.

Responsibilities include leading elicitation, creating use cases, process models, and documenting business rules. Strong communication and consensus-building are essential for success.