Principal Duties and Responsibilities: Through a combination of strong business understanding, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and excellent interviewing and facilitating techniques, the BA will: • Lead the discovery and conceptual design work required to translate business needs into solutions and features • Drives the development of compelling business cases that include financial models to compare the fiscal costs and benefits • Facilitates estimation of proposed solutions across Enterprise Applications, Architecture and Infrastructure teams • Works closely with the Business Partner to ensure that roadmaps are focused on efforts that provide the highest business value • Provide coaching and mentoring to other business analysts • Facilitate meetings with business partners • Participate (or directs) workflow analysis in support of requirements identification • Elicit, capture, analyze and document business requirements, epics and user stories • Provide consultancy and advice on functionality, applicability, and usability of technology solutions to project requirements • Balance business requirements with technical feasibility • Identify project interdependencies • Ability to prioritize and drive sound business decisions • Plans and directs the work of staff or vendors to conduct proof of concept efforts • Effectively delivers presentations to key customers/stakeholders and senior management. • Research and analyze industry trends and benchmarking information as they apply to the business model and domain area needs Experience and Education Requirements • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science with Business Management (or related field) or equivalent work experience required. Master's degree preferred. • Four to six years progressive business analysis experience, supporting medium to large-size projects • Explicit business knowledge in software/High tech industry • Domain knowledge of Order and Subscription management, Finance or Human Resources strongly desired Key Competencies • Demonstrated leader/proactive • Able to present complex ideas concisely • Strong analytical and problem solving skills • Excellent communicator/information sharer • Exceptional interviewing, probing, influencing skills • Strong interpersonal skills • Team builder, motivator, coach and trainer • Creative and innovative thinker • Problem/Solution oriented • Excellent relationship and expectation management skills • Effectively manages multiple activities of varying complexities • Time/prioritization management skills • Objective—Ability to take and give constructive feedback • Effectively manages and can thrive with ambiguity • Self-motivated/independent/resourceful System/ Technical Skills • Effective use of business assessment tools: o Feasibility studies o Business cases and/or cost/benefit o Project sizing and costing o Current state analysis/needs assessments • Effective use of business modeling tools: o Process and workflow modeling • Working knowledge of technical modeling techniques: o Data modeling o Logical database modeling and design o System Flow diagrams o Screen flow diagrams • SFDC, Siebel or other CRM enterprise applications • SAP or other ERP applications