Pointwest-North America is Hiring a Sr. Business Analyst - Media Asset Management Near Los Angeles, CA
Job Title: Senior Business Analyst We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support our media management processes, platforms, and systems. This person will lead workflow discovery, gap analysis, complex requirements elicitation, and system interface specification while serving as a functional liaison to the user community. The ideal candidate will deeply understand the technology and project management experience with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities:
Project Initiation
Develops an understanding of customer needs and applies it in researching solutions
Participates in clarification, rationalization, and documentation of project requests
Participates in the preparation of use cases, user flows, data models, and other documents
Application Design & Development
Analyzes and documents relevant business processes
Conducts interviews with customers to define functional requirements
Serves as an intermediary between technical and non-technical teams to ensure items meet business needs
Leads and/or participates during detailed design and/or configuration
Participates in the software selection process, where applicable
Participates in integration testing, including the creation of test plans, test cases, and documentation of results
Facilitates and/or conducts user acceptance testing
Assists in the preparation of end-user documentation, training materials, curriculum, and schedule
Conducts training, including train-the-trainer, one-on-one, and classroom-style training
Provides first-line post-implementation support to users regarding functional issues
Participates in change management activities
Application Support
Takes ownership of functional issues by identifying underlying problems, analyzing potential solutions, and implementing resolutions, including workarounds when needed
Participates in functional analysis for production support activities
Applies department change control policies & procedures
Coordinates with other IT departments on integrated system support
Administration
Communicates plans, status, and issues to management on a regular basis
Adheres to department standards, policies, procedures, and industry best practices
Departmental Responsibilities
Self-driven with the ability to adapt quickly to a fast-paced, deadline-driven, and constantly changing environment
Ability to self-prioritize based on constantly changing needs ranging across projects
Comfortable presenting in front of large groups and to the executive management team
Proactively seeks and escalates areas of improvement that can help drive cost savings and other efficiencies
Other Responsibilities Required
Available to work nights and weekends as needed
Some travel is required
Qualifications:
Must have hands-on experience in media asset management platforms, use cases, and metadata workflows
Excellent written, verbal, and visual communications skills, including the creation of project documentation and presentation materials and presenting to business, functional, and technical audiences
Strong analytical skills, including the translation of business problems into actionable technical requirements and user stories
Strong hands-on experience with SDLC methodologies such as Agile Scrum and Kanban
Expertise in business stakeholder engagement and relationship management
Strong ability to translate business requirements into functional requirements, process flows, system interface specifications, user stories, and business rules that lead to intuitive and efficient end-end workflows
Applies business thinking and follows a user-oriented approach to ensure that expected functionality is delivered and optimal usability and ergonomics
Makes functional decisions related to core and new functions and features
Gains an understanding of customers’ workflows and how systems are used to support their workflows
Takes ownership of functional issues by identifying underlying problems,