C/W-Business Analyst SME - Professional - DUKEJP00009929

Key skill sets required: Deep knowledge of the financial analysis and planning. Proven advanced abilities in Microsoft Excel; Skilled in practices of planning, financial analysis, forecasting, and preparing and presenting recommendations; Ability to dissect technical and business discussions and translate the important points into written summaries; Skilled in financial analyses principles including cost-benefit analysis and business cases.; Ability to communicate effectively with technical experts, business SMEs, and executives; Excellent financial management skills; Additional desired qualifications include: Experience in the Telecom industry.; Familiarity with various disciplines of project management activities including financial analysis, planning, scheduling and forecasting, cost-benefit analysis and business case development, requirements gathering, design methodologies, and construction requirements. Basic JD: Overview: Analyzes company functions, processes, and activities to improve computer-based business applications for the most effective use of money, materials, equipment, and people. Typical Functions: Utilizes available computer systems resources and personnel to carry out analysis to support management' s quest for performance improvement. Reviews and analyzes information, forecasts, methods, schedules, systems, processes, and procedures. Determines most useful business solutions for the company. Recommends alternative solutions to management as to courses of action that best meet the organization' s goals. Performs duties concerned with the design and improvement of computer-based business systems. Works closely with senior managers to identify and solve a variety of computer-based business system problems. Analyzes requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing business systems. Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures and identify problems. Solicits from management symptoms of problem, formally defines the problem, breaks problem into component parts, and gathers information about each of these parts from a variety of sources. Selects the most appropriate analytical technique. Utilizes several study techniques including simulation, linear and nonlinear programming, dynamic programming, queuing and other stochastic-process models, Markov decision processes, econometric methods, data envelopment analysis, neural networks, expert systems, decision analysis, and the analytic hierarchy process. Writes description of business needs, business program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer-based business systems. Reviews computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system. Studies existing computer-based business systems to evaluate effectiveness, and develops new systems to improve production or workflow as required. 10+ years experience. Meet Your Recruiter Micah Sulewski