Jr. Business Analyst – Enterprise Data
About The Position
The Jr. Business Analyst is a Kaizen consultant assigned to client engagements as part of a client’s Enterprise Data team. Working with Kaizen and client colleagues—including business stakeholders, data engineers, BI developers, and product owners—the analyst translates business needs into requirements, documents and improves analytical processes, and organizes development work in Jira. The analyst reports to a Kaizen engagement lead and receives direction from senior Kaizen analysts and leads. Over time, the role takes ownership of requirements for defined workstreams and becomes a trusted contact for client stakeholders. The role supports requirements and backlog management, process analysis and documentation, data and analytics solutions, core business analysis artifacts, user acceptance testing, sprint and roadmap planning, and client engagement. It involves learning client data landscapes, documenting data definitions and mappings, writing basic SQL, and reviewing, troubleshooting, or building basic Power BI reports and DAX measures. The analyst also creates low-fidelity wireframes and supports delivery teams with requirements, test cases, and defect tracking.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Analytics, or a related field.
- 1 to 3 years of experience in business analysis, data analysis, or a related role.
- Basic understanding of data concepts such as tables, joins, data models, and metrics.
- Strong writing skills and the ability to turn unclear input into clear, structured requirements.
- Clear, confident communication with business and technical audiences.
- Curiosity about how businesses operate and how data supports decisions.
- Interest in consulting and comfort working across different clients, industries, and team setups.
- Organized and detail-oriented, and comfortable asking questions.
- Strong Excel skills, along with familiarity with Microsoft Office tools including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with Jira for creating and managing stories and epics.
- Familiarity with basic Power BI report building and DAX.
- Familiarity with basic SQL querying and data validation.
- Familiarity with diagramming tools such as Visio, Figma, Lucidchart, Miro, or similar.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Confluence.
Responsibilities
- Gather and document requirements through stakeholder interviews, working sessions, and reviews of existing documentation.
- Write user stories with clear acceptance criteria and maintain them in Jira.
- Work with senior business analysts and product owners to refine and prioritize the backlog.
- Track requirements from intake through development and testing.
- Learn and analyze client business processes, including reporting, core-system enhancements, KPI calculations, and data handoffs.
- Identify pain points, manual workarounds, data-quality gaps, and opportunities to simplify or automate processes.
- Help shape solution options and recommend improvements with data and BI teams.
- Map current-state and future-state workflows using process flows and swimlane diagrams.
- Maintain clear, current documentation in Confluence or team repositories.
- Develop working knowledge of client data landscapes, including source systems, pipelines, data warehouses, and reporting layers.
- Document data definitions, business rules, source-to-target mappings, and data dictionaries.
- Write basic SQL queries to explore data, validate requirements, and support testing.
- Review, troubleshoot, or build basic Power BI reports and DAX measures to understand how metrics are calculated and displayed.
- Create low-fidelity wireframes to align stakeholders on designs before development begins.
- Help create BRDs, functional specifications, user stories, process maps, data mappings, and test cases.
- Support UAT by drafting test scenarios, coordinating testers, and logging and tracking defects.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, and retrospectives.
- Help break epics into stories and size work with the delivery team.
- Support quarterly and roadmap planning by organizing requirements, dependencies, and priorities.
- Represent Kaizen professionally with client teams and build strong working relationships.
- Keep the Kaizen engagement lead informed about progress, risks, and scope questions.
- Follow Kaizen delivery standards and contribute to internal templates, best practices, and knowledge sharing.
- Adapt to new client environments, tools, and business domains as engagements change.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
