Senior Business Analyst

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst

Location: Indianapolis, IN

Pay Rate: $45/hr. on 1099

Hybrid Role

Job Description:

• Reviews, analyses, and evaluates business systems and user needs.
• BAs are responsible for creating new models that support business decisions by working closely with finance and IT teams to establish initiatives and strategies aimed at improving revenue and/or optimizing costs. 
• Business analysts need a “strong understanding of regulatory and reporting requirements as well as plenty of experience in forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis combined with an understanding of key performance indicators.

Responsibilities include:

• Creating a detailed business analysis in an effort to outline problems, opportunities, and solutions for a business
• Reporting to stakeholders and Pthe roject Management Team.
• Defining business requirements and reporting them back to stakeholders
• Business analysts are tasked with prioritizing technical and functional requirements, identifying what clients want, and determining what is feasible to deliver. 
• It requires a deep understanding of systems, how they function, who will need to be involved, and the necessary steps to get everyone on board.  

Business analyst skills:

• The business analyst position requires both hard skills and soft skills. 
• Business analysts need to know how to pull, analyze, and report data trends, share that information with others, and apply it to business goals and needs. 
• Not all business analysts need a background in IT if they have a general understanding of how systems, products, and tools work. 
• Alternatively, some business analysts have a strong IT background and less experience in business but are interested in shifting away from IT into this hybrid role. 
• The role often acts as a communicator between the business and IT sides of the organization, so having extensive experience in either area can be beneficial for business analysts.

Required skills:

• Oral and written communication skills
• Interpersonal and consultative skills
• Facilitation skills
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving
• Being detail-oriented and capable of delivering a high level of accuracy
• Organizational skills
• Knowledge of the business structure
• Stakeholder analysis
• Requirements engineering
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Processes modeling
• Understanding of networks, databases, and other technology