Peer Consulting Resources Inc. is hiring: Senior Business Analyst in Foster City

Job Summary:

• Senior Business Analyst helps achieve business goals by analyzing business needs, business processes, and application of IT technology to business needs.
• Through analysis and critical thinking, identify areas or risk or inefficiencies for improvement and provide recommendations to fill in gaps and improve business processes and structures, which include technology, people, organizational, and technological structures.
• The role often bridges technical teams and business departments so they can work together to achieve the functional specifications required to meet business needs.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions
• Stay current with customer needs and strategies, utilizing formal and informal written communication methods to communicate updates and findings, and facilitating project meetings and presentations to diverse audiences from business to cross-functional partners, and from application users to business leadership stakeholders
• Lead or participate in multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation, managing project scope, adjusting schedules when necessary, determining daily priorities, ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones, following proper escalation paths, and managing customer and supplier relationships
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies
• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings
• Performing requirements analysis
• Producing as-is and to-be process flow diagrams, information flow diagrams, system RACI tables, and business requirements specifications
• Identify, create, and facilitate process design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis and design at a complex level, focusing on quality improvement and data management, ensuring data is reliable and valid, developing process improvements or re-engineering and recommending elimination, integrating new systems and processes with existing ones, and partnering with internal and external customers to ensure systems provided meet the long-term business strategies
• Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders, identifying business needs, determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices, monitoring progress and results, recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities, and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities
• Provide project level analysis, producing required project analysis documentation (business requirements, scope matrix, use cases, sequence diagrams, future state proposals, UAT plan)
• Collaborate closely with developers to implement requirements and provide necessary guidance to testers during QA process
• Identify ways to increase adoption and customer satisfaction
• Ability to analyze and synthesize business requirements, including recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes
• Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders
• Serve as a liaison between Operations and IT to assist or gather business requirements needed for system modifications, enhancement, and implementations
• Assist with and test implementation to ensure data transfer collection, quality, and reporting relationships are working appropriately down to the user level to ensure team member and user experience is appropriate
• Develop and execute test plans
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management
• Support development of user acceptance test strategy and plans
• Support user acceptance testing
• Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts.
• Updating, implementing, and maintaining procedures

Skills and qualifications:

• 8+ years Business Analyst experience
• 4+ years Pharma experience
• Experience in Pharma and GxP compliance / 21 CFR Part 11
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Action-oriented creative thinker and problem solver
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
• Advanced technical skills
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations
• Intermediate level of proficiency with MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and SharePoint, with experience presenting to stakeholders and / or Senior Leadership
• A track record of following through on commitments
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
• Experience leading and developing top-performing teams
• A history of leading and supporting successful projects