Title: Lead Business Analyst
Long Description
• Power BI development, knowledge/ability to link data across multiple platforms including Excel, Smartsheet, use of Power Automate, and ADO.
• Ability to stay organized and on top of the many to dos/tasks that are assigned.
• Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of people at all levels and nationalities where English is used but is not their native language.
• Lead assigned projects ensuring delivery on-time, within scope and within budget
• Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan with resource capacity and actuals analysis
• Liaise with resource managers to ensure resources are available to support the timelines within the project schedule
• Utilize risk management strategies to actively manage project risks that may impact project cost, quality, scope or schedule
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Review and approve time cards associated with your project
• Create business case financial models
• Forecast, monitor and report on project financials, and maintain financials in project management tools
• Manage change requests by assessing impact to scope, schedule and cost; and communicate with key stakeholders
• Liaise with the supplier management groups as needed on supplier engagement, quality of services, experience and cost
Area(s) of responsibility
• Partner with the project team to ensure compliance with regulations, policies, standards, procedures, and associated documentation including but not limited to computer systems validation, SOX, and PM standards
• Continually update relevant business stakeholders of project status and periodically publish project status reports
• Represent the project in various project governance and inter-departmental forums
• Ensure all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in business case
• Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value
• Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria and deliver project to meet those metrics and criteria
• Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company
• Assist, share learning, and mentor others within the PMO regarding standards, organizational understanding, and relationship building to promote the successful delivery of projects
Essential job tasks
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience is required
• Proven record of planning and delivering medium complex projects
• Experience coordinating remote project teams desired
• Demonstrated experience in full project management lifecycle for software/maintenance/ development/ implementation projects and IT methodologies (ITIL)
• Experience with projects in multiple technologies and functions; demonstrated experience managing customer relationships
• Good Communication Skills
• Leadership Skills