Senior Business Analyst for Procurement Data

Education and Experience Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Business or IT related required or an equivalent combination of education and experience to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. 6 years experience in an analytical or technical support function or general data analysis/extraction experience.

Position Purpose:

Gathers business requirements and participates in the support and delivery of business solutions. Performs data analysis, extraction, and delivery activities. Supports the execution of information, and data. Performs moderately complex work assignments under minimal supervision. Works to resolve moderately complex issues and seeks guidance from team members on escalated issues. Serves as a resource and contributes to the achievement of team/organization goals.

Job Description

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

Essential Functions:

1. Facilitates gathering moderately complex business requirements by defining the business problem, identifying data requirements and isolating data elements.
2. Maintains and assists in the development of moderately complex business solutions, which may include data, reporting, business intelligence or analytics.
3. Leverages a basic understanding of multiple data structures and sources (possesses a working knowledge of multiple data stores) to perform moderate complex data manipulation using standard data extraction and analytical tools and techniques.
4. Develops intermediate business knowledge of the functional area and processes to understand the application of data information to support business functions.
5. Supports the implementation of technical data solutions and standards.
6. Support data governance, integrity, quality, and audit functions.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Other Requirements:

1. Possesses agility for learning technical and business concepts.
2. Understands the application of data information to support business functions.
3. Knowledge of industry best practices.
4. Must be detailed oriented with an ability to meet critical deadlines and manage multiple assignments and priorities.
5. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products and database.
6. Working knowledge of data reporting/analysis tools and techniques and leveraging databases.
7. Working knowledge of identifying, documenting, and analyzing business and/or data requirements.
8. Working knowledge of data extraction techniques and applications.
9. Understands the application of data information to support business functions.
10. An understanding of data aggregation/manipulation through table joins/queries and database design (preferred).
11. Understanding of relational and dimensional data models and structure (preferred).

A credit history check from a national credit bureau will be conducted for all candidates for this position including new hires and current employees seeking promotion or transfer. This job requires one to be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.