Senior Business Analyst Job in Phoenix 85050, Arizona Us
Senior Business Analyst
Overview:
The primary role of the Senior Business Analyst is to research, analyze, develop, and implement models, programs and systems related to energy, financial, and operational applications.
Development responsibilities includes a support role in the planning, requirements analysis, design, programming, testing, maintenance, and end user training of the Coleman | Hines’ Services Platform.
Job Description:
- Responsible for the delivery of client related services. Examples include energy budgets, usage forecast models and other adhoc-reports.
- Participate in business and systems requirements gathering meetings with internal and external stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
- Identify, document, develop, implement and maintain process-level improvements to analytical tools and systems to improve data analysis and data mining capabilities in a standards driven environment.
- Participate in corporate quality assurance projects aimed at streamlining processes and reducing expense.
- Compiles data from a variety of internal and external sources to provide clients with statistical and analytical reports to support the budget process. Such reports include budgeted versus actual spending in the current fiscal year, revised forecasts, and consumption trends.
- Participate in the development and maintenance of the corporate data architecture, data management and data element naming standards and descriptions.
- Identify and maintain standardized data elements across the corporate data architecture.
- Utilize various techniques to communicate requirements and design. Examples include use cases, flow charts, text, activity diagrams, and mockups.
- Training and coaching of departmental processes, tools, and resources for new team members, including documentation of systems and operations processes.
- Working with clients, third party billing service providers, and other internal stakeholders
- Understand and follow systems development, project management, and process management methodologies as defined by Operational Excellence.
- Participation in ongoing conference calls and market updates related to the energy industry, clients, and suppliers.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external clients.
Qualifications:
General Skills
- Minimum 5 years experience performing business data analysis using a variety of techniques including data mining, optimization, regression and segmentation, market or product trending, behavioral, predictive modeling, cost-to-serve, and service level metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and communicate effectively with operational, financial and executive management.
- Proven ability to prioritize decisions based on statistics, financial benefit and risk.
- Experience in financial services industry strongly preferred.
- Ability to work independently with considerable initiative and with minimal supervision.
- Strong time and task management skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment with continual reprioritization of tasks.
- Manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously with required status updates to Manager
IT Technical
- Minimum 5 years experience in Microsoft Excel and Access development. Significant prior experience specific to database design, programming and financial modeling.
- Minimum 5 years experience in programming languages including VBA, C#
- High working knowledge of MS Office Suite including Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Visio.
- High working knowledge of MS Project or other calendar managed project tool
- General working knowledge of Object Oriented Design concepts.
Educational / Business
- Minimum 8 years direct work experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience or combination.
March 20, 2011
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