Specialist, Business Analytics
Pearson•United States,
•$85,000 - $100,000•Remote
About The Position
The Business Analyst (BA) ensures we are solving the right business problem. They provide deep understanding of stakeholder needs, business processes, and desired outcomes. They work closely with business users, SMEs, product owners, developers, data engineers, and QA teams. The role aligns to industry level titles such as “Business Analyst (BA)”.
Requirements
- Strong requirements elicitation and analysis skills
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience translating business processes into Agile requirements
- Problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
- Familiarity with how to influence without authority
- Strong track record of consensus building and delivering value to the business
- Business acumen
- Experience working on data, reporting, BI, or data warehouse initiatives
- Experience in Jira and Confluence
- BA or BS degree in Business, Communications, Computer Science, Information Systems, or relevant experience
- Experience as a Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or related role
- Knowledge of databases and reporting solutions
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively
Nice To Haves
- Agile/Scrum experience
- Business process mapping
- Data visualization tools
- ETL and data warehousing concepts
- Relevant IIBA, PMI, or Scrum Alliance certification preferred
Responsibilities
- Understand business needs and objectives
- Ensure data initiatives align to business objectives
- Elicit and analyze business requirements and use cases
- Create user stories and process flows
- Create shared understanding across stakeholders
- Identify process improvement opportunities
- Support testing, validation, and user acceptance activities
- Act as the "voice of the business" throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Lead requirements elicitation with stakeholders
- Analyze business processes and identify improvement opportunities
- Create and maintain business rules and requirements documentation, business use cases, and process models
- Collaborate with technical teams to ensure requirements are feasible
- Manage stakeholder communications and expectations
Benefits
- Annual incentive program
- Information on benefits can be found here [https://pearsonbenefitsglobal.com/].
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
