Senior Business Analyst

  • Type: Full Time
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Our client, an esteemed educational institution, is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to contribute to their Schedule Optimization initiative. This initiative will focus on 3 areas including improve metrics and analytics to support data-informed scheduling and decision-making, inform space utilization optimization and improve class scheduling tools and process efficiency. This position is a seven (7) month contract on a hybrid schedule based out of Edmonton, Alberta.

Responsibilities

  • Leads business unites through the development of business cases and obtains approval of senior management to proceed through gated portfolio process
  • Works with business analysts, project managers and business managers to ensure the benefits defined in the business case and subsequent benefit delivery plans are realized, using baseline models and performance statistics
  • Leads cross-functional business process re-engineering teams and continuous improvement efforts
  • Document business processes using relevant modeling techniques such as Use Case, Swim lane, Activity, Business Process Modeling Diagram and Data Flow Diagram
  • Analyzes processes to recommend fundamental process improvements to management which exploit technology components, eliminate redundant tasks, and/or minimize duplications of effort
  • Responsible for the creation of an accurate business requirements document and obtaining stakeholder and senior management's approval
  • Defines the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategy for projects
  • Leads the UAT associated with projects
  • Leads the development of UAT test cases
  • Develops or supports the development of training material

Qualifications

  • Extensive senior business process analysis and solution assessment experience related to complex enterprise solution implementations
  • Process Improvement certification
  • Process modelling and/or business optimization training and expertise
  • Lean Six Sigma experience is preferred
  • Experience driving or participating in large change and transformation efforts, business optimization initiatives, assessments and reviews
  • Workshop, facilitation or training experience is preferred
  • Considerable experience working in post-secondary or public sector environment
  • Experience implementing and/or managing solutions that support student admissions, preferably admissions
  • Experience working with multiple business, technical and vendor teams

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