Business Analyst Job at LingaTech in Richmond

Location: Richmond, VA - local candidates only
Position Type: Hybrid, 1 day/week onsite required with monthly requirement to attend an onsite meeting the second Tuesday of each month
Contract Length: 6 months, extension likely

Position Overview:
The Business Analyst will have expertise in Power Automate and Power BI to drive innovative business solutions. The ideal candidate excels in business analysis, process automation, and developing metrics, dashboards, and reports, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture while thriving in a fast-paced, multitasking environment.

Duties:

• Proven experience in working closely with business users, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to understand the business drivers, needs, and pain points, creating compelling business cases with accurate cost and effort estimation, and translating these into technical specifications and design the most appropriate solutions.
• Ability to work independently with management and business users gathering and delivering on requirements with high attention to detail, and focused on the timely completion of deliverables.
• Experience in creating visualizations and reports for requested projects.
• Design and develop dashboards, scorecards, charts, pivot tables, reports, and reporting systems according to the business requirements.
• Digest project requirements, devise BI solutions, and provide estimates for accomplishing the solution.
• Support business users with their own dashboard/report development, including troubleshooting existing reports, updating data sources, and publishing to on-prem and cloud report servers.
• Proven abilities to take initiative and be innovative in solution design.
• Analytical mind with a problem-solving aptitude.
• Comfortable in communicating both negative and positive implications of business user requests and decisions and able to provide alternative options.
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners across functional areas.
• Ability to author context diagrams, data flow diagrams, business process diagrams, and other artifacts typically used in system/solution design.

Required Skills:

• 8 years of overall IT experience in data analysis, data management, and report development
• 6 years of experience with Microsoft Power BI development
• 6 years of experience with Microsoft Power Automate
• 2 years of experience with Microsoft Forms, populating SharePoint lists and creating attachments
• 6 years of experience with MS Office applications including Visio
• 5 years of experience working in both waterfall & agile
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) preferred
• IT Project Management experience preferred