Role: Senior Business Analyst ( Willing to relocate )

Location: Maple Grove, Minnesota

Job Description:

· Analyze and synthesize requirements, including recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes, data challenges, and system inefficiencies from business organizations and industry

· Identify improvement opportunities (proactive and reactive)

· Document and elicit findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or product changes, and create test-related documents.

· Support and align efforts to meet customer and business needs

· Create and maintain issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules, project summaries and updates.

· Support system conversions, upgrades, enhancements

· Understand and negotiate the needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders

· Manage customer relationships and expectations by developing a communication process to keep others up-to-date on project results

· Provide leadership to team members and peers by collaborating with others; articulating ideas and viewpoints to senior management, peers and others; identifying and initiating projects; managing resources; driving the resolution of issues; and holding self and team accountable for results

· Strong project management, ability to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point, strong relationship-building skills & communication skills

· Lead or participate in multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation; managing project scope; adjusting schedules when necessary; determining daily priorities; ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; following proper escalation paths; and managing customer and supplier relationships

· Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements, and provide necessary guidance to testers during QA process

· Serve as a liaison between Operations and IT to assist or gather business requirements needed for system modifications, enhancement and implementations

· Create and maintain project schedules by developing project plans and specifications, estimating time and resources, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases of the project lifecycle, providing timely reporting of issues that impact project progress, coordinating actions and resolving conflicts

· Meet with the project team regularly to review project deliverables and deadlines

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Requirements:

· Must have experience working on large-scale projects as well as handling day-to-day operational requests from the business

· Strong project management, ability to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point, strong relationship-building skills & communication skills

· Understanding of Indices, fundamentals and analytical data, returns level data etc.

· Proficient with Microsoft Office tools

· Data analysis – Preferred proficiency with SQL

Senior Business Analyst top skills & proficiencies:

· Communication

· Technical Understanding

· Problem Solving

· Leadership

· Teamwork

· Client Management

· Business Operations

· Multitask