Business Analytics Specialist

Posted 14hrs ago

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Business Analyst aligning Pearson’s data initiatives with business needs and delivery outcomes. Translating stakeholder requirements into Agile processes, documentation, and user stories.

Responsibilities:

  • Understand business needs and objectives
  • Ensure data initiatives align to business objectives
  • Elicit and analyze business requirements and use cases
  • Create user stories and process flows
  • Create shared understanding across stakeholders
  • Identify process improvement opportunities
  • Support testing, validation, and user acceptance activities
  • Act as the "voice of the business" throughout the delivery lifecycle
  • Lead requirements elicitation with stakeholders
  • Analyze business processes and identify improvement opportunities
  • Create and maintain business rules and requirements documentation
  • Create and maintain business use cases
  • Create and maintain process models
  • Collaborate with technical teams to ensure requirements are feasible
  • Manage stakeholder communications and expectations

Requirements:

  • Strong requirements elicitation and analysis skills
  • Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience translating business processes into Agile requirements
  • Problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
  • Familiarity with how to influence without authority
  • Strong track record of consensus building and delivering value to the business
  • Business acumen
  • Experience working on data, reporting, BI, or data warehouse initiatives
  • Experience in Jira and Confluence
  • BA or BS degree in Business, Communications, Computer Science, Information Systems, or relevant experience
  • Experience as a Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or related role
  • Knowledge of databases and reporting solutions
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively
  • Agile/Scrum experience preferred
  • Business process mapping preferred
  • Data visualization tools preferred
  • ETL and data warehousing concepts preferred
  • Relevant IIBA, PMI, or Scrum Alliance certification preferred

Benefits:

  • Eligible to participate in an annual incentive program
  • Information on benefits can be found here