Sony Pictures Entertainment-posted 4 months ago
$82,000 - $125,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Culver City, CA
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

The Production & Studio Technology Services (PSTS) Team is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our IT Production Finance group. This position requires a combination of strong information technology background and a production services business acumen to effectively manage relationships between the Business and IT, as well as support the day-to-day operations and delivery of IT products and services. The Senior BA role serves as the conduit for business users with the primary goal of understanding the business processes, workflows, and information requirements of the users and sharing them with the development teams. The role is also expected to interact with stakeholders from various business units, including Production Finance, Corporate Finance, Studio Operations, Information Security, and Procurement in support of current and future efforts. The Senior Business Analyst will perform requirements analysis, create functional design specifications, develop mockups, build wireframes, document workflows, and ensure that releases are tested successfully. The candidate will also manage support requests, incident resolutions, and application outages to avoid interruptions of day-to-day business operations. The Senior Business Analyst should be well versed and experienced utilizing the Agile development and project management methodologies. The candidate must be hands on, detailed-oriented, have strong communication and listening skills, and have the ability to effectively prioritize their work. Some technical development skills would also be beneficial but not required. The Senior Business Analyst should have the ability to assist in driving projects and be hands-on in the system development lifecycle, including project planning/scoping, requirements gathering, system design and system testing. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who approaches work with enthusiasm, passion and is committed to delivering value for our business customers while positively influencing those around them.

  • Serve as a trusted partner to other teams in planning, coordination, development and deployment of PSTS projects and products.
  • Apply analytical skills to effectively identify and solve problems.
  • Effectively collaborate and manage other resources (even if not direct reports) to resolve issues and complete tasks.
  • Distill and succinctly present complex issues in a concise manner to management to facilitate/influence decision making.
  • Lead client facing meetings without supervision.
  • Independently identify areas of opportunity and proactively collaborate across teams to improve application and process performance.
  • Assist in shaping the business analysis standards, optimal processes and best practice templates for the department.
  • Proactively reach out to colleagues and stakeholders for opportunities to support their initiatives.
  • Ensure that Sony's Global Information Security Policies and other company controls are observed and applied to all applications in the portfolio.
  • Create status reports and other ad hoc reports to effectively communicate status/issues/attention needed.
  • Operate with high degrees of trust, integrity, and compassion for others.
  • Have the courage to ask difficult questions and provide/receive constructive feedback in spirit of continuous improvement.
  • Participate in compliance audits and uphold adherence to approved policies and procedures.
  • Align working hours to include global stakeholders and dev resources.
  • Demonstrate effective communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation.
  • Strive to make work light for others by identifying new and efficient ways of working.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in IT or related technical professions.
  • Experience with the media & entertainment production process, preferably Production Finance.
  • Familiarity of the Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
  • Experience writing functional design specifications for application configurations and customizations.
  • Experience writing technical design specifications.
  • Experience executing data migration / data transformation projects.
  • Experience designing report templates and wireframes based on user requirements.
  • Working knowledge of Jira and ServiceNow.
  • Independent, self-motivated with strong critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to help shape and influence outcomes with stakeholders.
  • Ability to facilitate business requirements and design review sessions with users and clients.
  • Succinct & precise communication skills: verbal, written, listening and presentation.
  • Strong organizational and workload prioritization skills.
  • Strong program or project management experience.
  • Strong interpersonal, negotiation, and relationship management skills.
  • Strong process flow and diagramming skills (Visio application).
  • Knowledge of reporting tools, such as PowerBI helpful.
  • Ability to build basic database queries/reports to support business requirements gathering.
  • Knowledge of production finance workflows and film/television/streaming industry helpful.
  • Annual incentive and/or comprehensive benefits.
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