[{"country_short": "USA", "city": "Chicago", "description": "Title: Sr Business Analyst, Chicago, IL\nLocation: Illinois-Chicago\nWorks with various functional areas to define business needs, enhancements and requirements for systems and business processes. Must be a self-starter and strong analytical thinker with the ability to facilitate requirements gathering, perform financial and operational analysis, and synthesize complex concepts into simple business terms.\n\n* Provides business analysis for project delivery\n* Drives the business requirements gathering process to ensure that meaningful requirements are identified for the business solution\n* Documents business requirements in a clear, complete, and concise manner\n* Ensures that business requirements are related to business goals and priorities\n* Conducts requirements walk-throughs to obtain understanding and approval\n* Works with IS business analysts in defining requirements for application systems\n* Provides requirements traceability\n* Provides process mapping of current and future states\n* Performs gap analysis activities\n* Performs financial and operational analysis\n* Develops business case estimates\n* Develops executive presentations\n* Facilitates workshops and meetings to define business solution\n* Supports third party vendor selection and contract negotiation\n* Supports user acceptance and business process testing\n* Participates in the acceptance of products, services and enhancements prior to roll-out to ensure that requirements are met\n* Pro-actively identifies improvement opportunities for systems and business process changes\n* Works with the business areas to anticipate future needs and changes to systems and business processes\n* Assists with the processes for prioritizing application system enhancements and defining business requirements for these enhancements\n*    Works with and monitors the activities of the business to ensure thorough business requirements are defined and approved on a timely basis for enhancements to applications or processes\n* Provides consultative services to projects and initiatives to assist with analysis and planning around technology, process, and people changes\n* Acts as a point of escalation for problems and issues\n* Supports improvements to enterprise business analyst methodology and tools\n* Provides mentorship and counseling for junior business analyst resources\n* Other duties as assigned\n* Bachelor's degree in related discipline or equivalent experience required\n* At least 5 years of business analysis experience is required\n*   Business knowledge of the wireless industry is desirable\n*    Knowledge of business analysis, business process re-engineering, and requirements gathering methods and tools required\n* Must possess outstanding analytical, research, and qualitative abilities\n* Ability to synthesize large, complex sets of information and integrate into meaningful reports, recommendations, and presentations\n* Must be a critical thinker who can also execute on the details\n* Excellent written, oral communication, facilitation and presentation skills required\n* Excellent attention to detail and the ability to probe underlying business needs\n* Strong interpersonal skills are essential given that the position will have significant interaction with various functional areas and all levels of associates\n* Diplomacy, poise, maturity and empathy are all key attributes for success\n* Ability to work independently in a matrixed environment as well as in a team environment\n* Ability to work on multiple assignments simultaneously\n* Ability to be flexible and manage change\n* Ability to work in complex situations with varying degrees of ambiguity\n* Ability to constructively adapt to rapidly changing priorities\n* A combination of both operational and IS experience is a plus\n* Knowledge of systems architecture, application development life cycle, and data modeling a plus", "date_new": "2011-12-22 18:38:34", "url": "http://find.uscellular.jobs/xml/25522226/job", "country": "United States", "company": "U.S. Cellular", "title": "Sr Business Analyst, Chicago, IL", "reqid": "OPE000137", "state": "Illinois", "state_short": "IL", "location": "Chicago, IL", "uid": 25522226}]