Manifest Solutions is currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a hybrid position in Columbus, OH.
NO C2C
- Responsible for using data, data analytics and data visualization tools to help make more effective business decisions by creating a series of internal data products.
- Responsible for understanding business processes, developing use cases, writing user stories, acceptance testing and contributing to the development of cost/benefit analysis for the creation of data analytic solutions and digital tools that will provide insights for business.
- Functions as a proactive thought partner working with various business stakeholders to develop the BI&A use case to improve business outcomes through the delivery of data analysis and dashboards.
- Partner directly with the business to understand business priorities and translate that into data needs and desired outcomes to inform the build of our internal analytic products (dashboards/reports).
- Responsible for writing user stories and requirements through collaboration with the business while working with technology and data governance teams.
- Groom a backlog of additional features and data to align and support the BI&A (Business Intelligence and Analytics) roadmap working closely with our Data Governance and Technology team.
- Serves as a subject matter expert (SME), super-user and product evangelist for a variety of data, analytics, and digital tools.
- Works with cross functional teams to understand and resolve business process gaps that create challenges in using data to derive insights and opportunities within business.
Education/Experience/Technological Knowledge
- Bachelor’s Degree required (preferred in IT/Business/Science/Math)
- 10+ years of experience in business data analysis, requirements building, cross functional teams, leading needs analysis conversations and/or delivering data visualizations
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills with sharp business value judgment
- Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a team, can balance competing priorities, manage multiple concurrent projects, identify problems, and anticipate needs, resolve data problems, create and maintain documentation for processes
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills including excellent client relationship skill sets with the ability to communicate analytical terms in non-analytical business language.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize quickly and effectively both in individual work and in the assessment of business requirements/user stories.
- The ability to influence and drive cross functional teams.
- A working knowledge of the agile software development process
- Experience with SQL, Tableau, and/or other analytical technologies