Business Analyst Professional

Role summary / purpose Analyzes company functions, processes, and activities to improve computer-based business applications for the most effective use of money, materials, equipment, and people. Key responsibilities • Utilizes available computer systems resources and personnel to carry out analysis to support management's quest for performance improvement • Reviews and analyzes information, forecasts, methods, schedules, systems, processes, and procedures • Determines most useful business solutions for the company • Recommends alternative solutions to management as to courses of action that best meet the organization's goals • Performs duties concerned with the design and improvement of computer-based business systems • Works closely with senior managers to identify and solve a variety of computer-based business system problems • Analyzes requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing business systems • Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures and identify problems • Solicits from management symptoms of problem, formally defines the problem, breaks problem into component parts, and gathers information about each of these parts from a variety of sources • Selects the most appropriate analytical technique • Utilizes several study techniques including simulation, linear and nonlinear programming, dynamic programming, queuing and other stochastic-process models, Markov decision processes, econometric methods, data envelopment analysis, neural networks, expert systems, decision analysis, and the analytic hierarchy process • Writes description of business needs, business program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer-based business systems • Reviews computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system • Studies existing computer-based business systems to evaluate effectiveness, and develops new systems to improve production or workflow as required Requirements – education & experience • 0-3 years experience • Bachelor's degree preferred Required skills • Maximo • CAPS • Power BI • Excel • Outlook Employment details – type, location, hours • Full time, Hybrid role • 2-3 days in office per week • Office environment