Business Analyst - Vendor Optimisation

This position is offered on a Fixed Term Contract of 6 (SIX) months term. There is potential for the contract to be extended to 12 (TWELVE) months depending on client and business needs.

What You Will Do:

As a Senior Consultant / Business Analyst with Guidehouse, you will have responsibility for client management, solution implementation and generation of project results. You will own project workstreams and interact with the client daily to ensure engagement success. This includes supporting day-to-day operational meetings with client sponsors and consulting leaders. As a Senior Consultant, you will be expected to prepare and communicate well-organized, effective reports and presentations to client and internal executives. You will lead, coach and mentor consultants and ensure quality deliverables.

We encourage career development and hiring for the long term.  As a Senior Consultant, you will follow a clearly defined career path and continue to deepen your specialized industry knowledge and consulting skills. As you hone your project management skills, leadership abilities, and the aptitude for managing multiple workstreams, you will have the opportunity to progress to the Managing Consultant level. 

As a Business Analyst, you will work on a project to implement capabilities for an enterprise financial software system and web application on an Agile product development team. You will analyze requirements, develop user stories, and work closely with stakeholders, UX designers, application architects, and developers to ensure technical and system requirements are accounted for. You will also work closely with the Scrum Master and Product Owner to plan and organize Sprints. Additional responsibilities will include: 

Process improvement

• Critically review, analyze, and evaluate business systems and user needs, ultimately producing clear proposals, documentation, and/or deliverables

• Apply analysis of business systems and software solutions to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of work processes for both current and future business needs

• Support the mapping and assessment of current business processes, including operating responsibilities, risks/issues, inefficiencies, time spent etc.

• Design and map proposed new ways of working focusing on streamlining and automating tasks

• Document business workflows and requirements

• With product leadership, continually optimize business analysis and requirements gathering processes

• Support presentations to leadership on assessment findings, recommended new ways of working and business case for change.

• Provide input to the approach and planning for business process change management 

• Lead or supporting implementation of business process transformation and change.

• Facilitate discussions with the right stakeholders to clarify the scope

• Work closely with product owners and managers to convert business use cases into actionable tasks for the development team

• Conduct presentations and communicate product features to both technical and non-technical communities and aids in the coordination and communication of cross-team initiatives

Vendor optimisation

• With the business owner, understanding vendor network optimisationobjectives and approach, particularly entity compliance insourcing

• Support the identification of opportunities for insourcing, including complexity analysis and cost/benefit.

• Coordinate the transition of compliance delivery insourcing arrangements, acting as the liaison between internal and external stakeholders. 

• Reporting progress to workstream leads and PMO.

• Prepare and deliver status updates, working sessions, and program area updates

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree 

• A minimum of three (3) years of experience as a Business Analyst working on operational improvement projects

• Strong experience with process map software such as Visio, Draw.io, or equivalent

• Strong interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills

• Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities

• Customer-service oriented

• Ability to maintain a big-picture vision while defining very detailed requirements

• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and MS PowerPoint

What Would Be Nice to Have:

• Experience with project or work management software such as JIRA, Confluence

• Experience with multi-jurisdiction vendor management

• Experience with document automation or robotic process automation

• Familiar with information technology architecture, governance, and data exchange