Category: Analytics BI & AI

Employment Type: Contract

Reference: BH-374841

Yoh has an immediate need for an IT Business Analyst- Corporate Rights.
9 Month Assignment with potential to convert.
4x onsite per week in Culver City, CA
Pay up to $70 per hour w2 based on experience.
Job Description The Business Analyst in our Corporate IT group serves as the conduit to the business users with the primary goal of understanding the business processes, workflows, and information requirements of the users. The primary stakeholders manage corporate rights and underlying rights for the entire studio. This data is critical for the distribution, sales, and content creation of our intellectual property. The Business Analyst will also interact with stakeholders from various business units across the studio and requires an in-depth and cross functional understanding of core line of business processes and value-chain services for media and entertainment (i.e. Product Development, Title Metadata, Rights, Distribution, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Distribution, Finance, and Royalties).
This role will be expected to perform requirements analysis, create user stories, and validate new features for enhancements and projects. The analyst will also support business users by providing training material, developing business test case scenarios, and facilitating user acceptance testing. The ideal candidate will also have a proven track record of supporting distribution rights at a media and entertainment company and/or possess some understanding of underlying rights for intellectual properties.
Responsibilities:

• Production support activities which include triaging system issues, facilitating meetings with stakeholders to prioritize support tickets, testing issues or bugs, and supporting implementation activities of new features.
• Solicit and elaborate requirements from business stakeholders.
• Transform business requirements into functional, non-functional, and technical user stories.
• Ability to effectively communicate requirements and issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Build and execute detailed acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and test cases to assist in the creation of automated test scripts.
• Build complex workflows and diagrams to depict business and system processes.
• Solid understanding of the day-to-day execution of business processes and related IT tasks.
• Strong understanding of multiple software delivery life cycle methodologies.
• Ensure all criteria for the user story has been met by conducting detailed test scenarios.
• Create and update user guides and training documentation on team wiki.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented, results-driven, and agile work environment.

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in IT or related technical professions.
• Demonstrate business acumen to effectively communicate with IT and business partners of varying organizational levels.
• Strong requirements gathering and functional specification documentation skills.
• Demonstrated experience in driving project teams from inception through implementation, with the ability to successfully design and direct project testing and quality assurance processes.
• Proficient data analysis skills and the ability to evaluate, manipulate, and solution based on complex data sets.

• Agile/Scrum Experience
• JIRA and Confluence Experience
• Oracle Database Experience
• Microsoft Teams Experience
• Reporting and Dashboard Tools Experience
• Previous Entertainment Industry Work Experience

• Supporting Distribution Rights at a Media and Entertainment company
• Understanding of Underlying Rights for intellectual property

• Bachelor Degree required
• Computer Science or related Information Technology degree preferred