Business Analyst

Role: Business Analyst

Location: South San Francisco, CA (On- site)

Job Description

The role of a Business Analyst is to partner with Finance and various local and global groups on the delivery of artificial intelligence (AI), insight generation, planning and reporting solutions to Finance. He/she is curious, open-minded and has a strong desire to obtain knowledge and understanding of the business. Through close business partnership and advisory, he/she delivers high quality technical solutions, enhancements, and process improvements. They apply their strong understanding of Finance processes to develop business requirements for solutions that they also execute on. His/her work style heavily involves collaboration and communication with other key players and stakeholders in Technology and Finance across the client company.

Key Responsibilities Of This Role Include The Following

Cultivate and foster trusting relationships with business partners in Finance through frequent face to face interactions Be able to identify opportunities for simplification and automation of Finance processes Work with Finance partners to translate business requirements into functional requirements and specifications Influencing business partners to distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs Analyze and document business processes, workflows and use cases for solution design Partner with Global IT Solution Center team to ensure requirements for new solutions and enhancements are managed and delivered effectively For proposed solutions, gather and evaluate information from multiple data sources Create and maintain solution design and ensure that the final solution meets the customer's needs Ensure Global IT Solution Center team delivers and maintains operational procedure and solution documentation Utilize project management skills to develop testing, validation and implementation plans and processes to ensure the solution is fit for purpose Thoroughly train end-users Work with Global IT Solution Center team to efficiently troubleshoot issues Proactively coordinate retrospective sessions to review and capture lessons learned

We Are Looking For Candidates With The Following Skills

Strong and quick learning mind-set Ability to understand the clients' financial processes and business Ability to adapt in a dynamically changing business environment Ability to lead a project Communicate technical concepts in non-technical terminology Ability to create work effort estimations Ability to prioritize, manage and deliver multiple projects simultaneously Good communication and presentation skills both written and verbal Teamwork and collaboration Negotiation skills and problem solving Not afraid to take risks Lead from every seat

Qualifications Of Candidates

4+ years of experience in business analysis in Finance area BS/BA Degree in finance, information management, or other related field of study is required Experience overseeing the building of analytical solutions is required Experience in SAP Finance, SAP BW reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP R3 and SAP S4 is required

Desired Candidates

Previous Biotech/pharma experience Posses project management skills