Associate Director, IT Business Analyst

Skills Alliance Enterprise is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing next-generation T cell therapies for cancer treatment. The IT Business Analyst will bridge the gap between business objectives and technology solutions, ensuring technology investments align with business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business processes and systems to identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement
• Document business requirements, functional specifications, and process flows
• Create and maintain business process models
• Drive process mapping and associated documentation that will align our functions around how key master and transactional data will be shared between systems
• Participate in driving the design for aligning key data between systems of record for IDL (initial data load) vs ongoing processing
• Identify and analyze business problems and opportunities
• Develop and evaluate potential solutions
• Conduct root cause analysis to understand the underlying issues
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including business users, IT teams, and management
• Facilitate workshops and meetings to gather requirements and gather feedback
• Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders
• Collect, analyze, and interpret data to identify trends and patterns
• Create reports and dashboards to track progress and measure performance
• Use data to support business decisions

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years-experience as a IT process / business analyst with hand's on practical experience with master data exchanges between systems
• Ability to lead process and data flow mapping throughout entire lifecycle, including effective partnering with business partners (subject matter experts)
• Able to complete projects in a timely manner
• Understanding of IT project management methodologies and SDLC processes, such as Agile Scrum and Waterfall, along with associated best practices
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to gather input from multiple sources and articulate technical recommendations and a point-of-view for key decisions
• Enjoys working in a collaborative team environment with the ability to manage multiple priorities and leverage support team members as necessary
• Excellent written, oral, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the comfort to communicate with all levels of the organization
• Microsoft Power BI experience, including creating workspaces, managing complex datasets, and utilizing best practices for reporting and visualizations
• IT BA knowledge – with IT business analysis lifecycle from requirements gathering through to recommending tangible solutions
• Pre-post system implementation - Comfortable with creating test cases for UAT and leading defect resolution
• Project management support - Support IT project / program manager on project scoping, requirements gathering and stakeholder management
• IT cost optimization - Proven experience in IT function rationalization
• Process / business analyst experience within the bio-pharma industry
• Minimum 1 year experience with GxP system implementations or GxP system validation projects
• Applied experience with commercial customer systems such as CRM (Veeva, SF.com, etc.)
• Experience with process mapping tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, Miro and writing work instructions and SOPs