Business Analyst

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We are in the market for a Business Analyst to join our team in the automotive industry. This role is based in Torrance, CA, and offers a long-term contract employment opportunity. As a Business Analyst, you will be responsible for understanding business requirements, initiating business processes, and ensuring effective business solutions in collaboration with various stakeholders.

At our company, we pride ourselves on a legacy of innovation. Our vision is to devise products and services that better the lives of our customers and enhance their mobility experience. We are currently seeking a Business Analyst with a robust combination of analytical and collaboration skills to spearhead this vision.

The responsibilities of this role include working within a product scrum team, supporting key initiatives through comprehensive business and technical analysis, constructing business cases, recommending and implementing business processes or system solutions, among others. A significant amount of collaboration with associates, IT, consultants, and vendors is required for this role. The nature of the role involves a mixture of collaborative and independent work, making it suitable for a hybrid work format with time divided between onsite and remote work.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Business and Technical Analysis (60% of Time)

• Gathering and prioritizing business requirements in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Conducting comprehensive business requirement assessments via interviews, workshops, and surveys.
• Translating complex business processes into clear, actionable requirements.

1. Stakeholder and Key Initiative Support (20% of Time)

• Interviewing stakeholders to understand and document requirements.
• Facilitating effective communication between business and IT units to align solutions with business strategies.
• Analyzing business partners' operations to unearth opportunities for process automation and improvements.

1. Agile Methodologies (10% of Time)

• Providing support for the Agile workflow of the department, including sprint reviews, retrospectives, planning, project approval, etc.

1. Department Support (10% of Time)

• Providing mentorship for less experienced staff when necessary.
• Working actively on multiple projects as a team member and at times taking lead.

Qualifications, Experience, Skills:

• Minimum Educational Qualifications: BA/BS/MBA/Masters degree or equivalent professional experience supported by subject matter training.
• Minimum Experience: 1-2 years of relevant business or technical work experience. Agile Scrum and SAFe experience is preferred, and Salesforce Administrator or Salesforce Business Analyst experience is a plus.
• Job-specific Skills:
• Kaizen mentality
• Ability to work in an extremely fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to coordinate multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external customers, as well as non-technical and technical personnel.

Location: Torrance, CA, US

Posted Date: 10/31/2024