Business Analyst – Contractual

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Philippines.

📋 Description

• Serve as a strategic intermediary between business stakeholders and delivery teams.

• Oversee requirements management, process analysis, solution design, and user acceptance activities.

• Promote ongoing process enhancements to improve operational efficiency, reporting accuracy, and business results.

• Conduct requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, and discovery sessions.

• Examine, document, and verify business requirements, current-state processes, and future-state operating models.

• Convert requirements into functional specifications, user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria.

• Manage requirements throughout the project lifecycle to ensure consistency, traceability, and alignment.

• Create and update business process maps, data flows, source-to-target mappings, and reporting relationships.

• Establish KPI frameworks, business metrics, calculation logic, dimensions, filters, exception handling rules, and data-quality standards.

• Maintain business glossaries, metadata repositories, data catalogs, and documentation standards.

• Counsel stakeholders on business and technology solutions, balancing value, risk, scalability, and implementation considerations.

• Lead UAT planning, test strategy, test case development, defect management, and business sign-off.

• Organize business participation during testing, deployment, release management, and post-implementation support.

• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, architecture, and project delivery teams.

• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to business analysis best practices and capability development.

• Offer strategic insights and recommendations for ongoing improvement and business innovation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

• Substantial experience as an IT Business Analyst, ideally in enterprise-scale data, analytics, or digital transformation initiatives.

• Demonstrated experience leading business analysis efforts across various initiatives and stakeholder groups.

• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid project delivery methodologies.

• Capability to manage competing priorities and achieve results in fast-paced, dynamic settings.

• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to influence decision-making and promote alignment among diverse stakeholder groups.

• Strong organizational, prioritization, and planning abilities.

• Experience managing requirements from discovery through to implementation and adoption.

• Proficiency in business process modeling, requirements management, and data analysis techniques.

• Solid understanding of reporting, KPI development, data governance, and data quality management.

• Experience with data analysis and visualization tools.

• Working knowledge of cloud-based data platforms and modern data architectures.

• Familiarity with system integrations, APIs, and file-based interfaces.

• Knowledge of the finance domain, covering General Ledger, P&L reporting, cost centers, accounting periods, accrual management, financial close processes, and reconciliation activities.

• Knowledge of the sales domain, including customer and product hierarchies, pricing and trade promotions, sales orders and order management, trade spend management, sell-in and sell-out analysis, and customer profitability.

• Preferred knowledge of SAP FI/CO and SAP SD/TPM.

• Understanding of SAP tables and processes within Sales, Finance, RD&E, or Sustainability domains.

• Experience with Databricks SQL or equivalent cloud data platforms.

• Familiarity with dbt documentation, testing, and data validation frameworks.

• Awareness of data lineage and catalog solutions such as Unity Catalog.

• Understanding of API integrations and data exchange mechanisms.

• Experience utilizing AI-assisted delivery tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contractual employment.

• Remote work arrangement.