Archive for the 'Business Analysis' Category

September 4, 2008. by bgross

Essential Job Duties:

• Elicit, analyze, validate, specify, and manage the needs and feedback of project stakeholders, including customers and end users
• Requirements gathering
• Document requirements in word, diagram, spreadsheet, powerpoint
• Problem solving with oral and written communication and analytical skills
• Organize meetings and document discussion in the form of minutes with action items
• Project planning, tracking and documentation
• Preparation of Powerpoint presentations

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field

• 1 - 3 years of experience in requirements gathering, project lead, and user acceptance testing
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the aptitude to motivate and lead diverse groups, working with all levels of internal and external customers
• Self-motivated and able to work with little supervision or direction in a busy, changing environment
• Optional: Prior experience with eCommerce, order management, and/or customer service

Online application available, click here.

Filed under: Brooklyn, Business Analysis, HiTech Team.

September 4, 2008. by joe

We are seeking a “go-getter” with managerial aspirations to serve as a Project Coordinator to assist the Director of Provider Contracting in performing various analyses and activities related to Group Health and other Network Development activities.

Description:

• Prepare various group health contracting summaries, reports and analysis as dictated by business needs.
• Prepare maps detailing existing coverage and identifying areas lacking coverage.
• Prepare provider margin reports on an ongoing basis.
• Analyze network for modality deficiencies and inform the appropriate staff person.
• Prepare provider directories utilizing various reports and margin analyses.
• Advise on potential opportunities to re-contract with providers in a specific area should marketplace dynamics dictate.
• Compose appropriate written material and correspondence in order to effectively communicate with potential providers.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree (B. A.) from a four-year college or university; Master’s degree (M.A.) a plus; a minimum of five years experience in a managed care or health organization, with a minimum of two years in the provider contracting function.

Must be computer literate with experience in a Microsoft Windows environment with a proficiency in Word and Excel. Must have strong oral and written communication skills.

Filed under: Administrative, Business Analysis, New Jersey, Trellis Associates.

September 4, 2008. by featcomp

The Business Analysis Department is chartered with the Sales Support responsibilities, which support primarily three phases of the sale execution process. These phases represent the pre-sales, pricing support, and contract approval activities. This role directly interfaces and supports the Region or Market Sales Director, Sales Manager and associated Sales Representatives, National Account Managers and Executive Account Managers.
Responsibilities:

Manage and support the Sales pricing request process, pre-sales, pricing, & contract coordination between Business Analysis, Sales, Engineering, Operations, Marketing, Product Development,& Legal including:

• Manage regional/market pricing requests for established products and services;
• Utilize internal database tracking, mapping, cost/price modeling & reporting tools;
• Coordinate engineering estimates/approvals for system generated customer pricing requirements, as well as internal strategic requirements;
• Accurately generate, calculate, analyze & package final customer pricing positions;
• Provide clear and accurate review of contractual requirements which insures a check & balance for the customer pricing agreement (product order/general terms & conditions);

Understand the basic market network design, strategic market initiatives & product/service information to be utilized in fulfilling specific customer requirements, as well as internal strategic requirements by region/market, which includes:

• Clear and concise understanding of the region/market network architecture;
• Up-to-date knowledge of targeted customer locations and current sales team objectives and priorities;
• Requires the understanding of all cost components, both internally and externally;
• Clear and concise understanding of all products and services (i.e. - financially, supportability, strategically, etc.);
• Perform other duties as requested by Management;
• The individual must comply with departmental and corporate internal controls and all internal controls processes;
• The individual must possess and employ the highest ethical and business standards and always conduct himself/herself with the greatest degree of professional integrity;
• Other duties and responsibilities as required.

Requirements :

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Engineering, Finance or Accounting;
• 3-5 years staff support of sales, proposal and/or project management activities, preferably in the telecommunications and/or IT technical arenas;
• The preferred candidate must have the ability to efficiently and effectively work on multiple, time sensitive projects simultaneously;

In addition, the preferred candidate will have the following specific functional capabilities:

• Decision making skills;
• The ability to communicate and interact with multi-functional departments (i.e., Engr, Operations, Marketing, Sales);
• Basic financial analysis and cost/price development for either products or services;
• Strong PC utilization (excellent working knowledge of ALL Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Access; knowledge of PowerPoint, MS Project and MapInfo - a plus);
• Requires project management skills, attention to detail, proactive and thorough.

Online application available, click here.

Filed under: Business Analysis, Inside Sales, NYC, Trellis Associates.

August 26, 2008. by nyjjb

Position Summary:
Primary responsibilities include creating and maintaining dashboard type KPI reports for tracking of business results. Perform extensive data quality / data analysis to ensure integrity of database for business use. Generate ad hoc reports as needed.

Primary goals:

• Execute and Maintain reports to support Marketing and Store Operations. Ensure accuracy of all data sources and timely delivery of report.
• Work with Technology team to ensure data integrity and accuracy of data base.
• Design and implement reports in Cognos
• Document business requirements and provide system specifications for reports. Suggest new data elements and/or tables needed to support reports
• Document changes to original code and validation results.
• Support team members and tasks as needed. Develop good working relationship with IT members.
• Requirements
• Undergraduate degree (Information Technology or Computer Science etc.). Graduate degree preferred in Computer Science.
• Ability to research identify and research data anomalies and recommend solutions. Work with IT to implement solution. Design, develop and maintain ’standard’ reports. Must be detail-oriented and have valid reasoning skills. Good oral and written communication skills

At least 5 years of related work experience in a senior database analyst role. Must have extensive experience in data analysis. Experience with supporting marketing organization. Experience in dealing with non-technical associates to understand their business challenges.

Expert skills in writing complex SQL queries to analyze, manipulate data, investigate data problems, develop / modify reports. Prefer experience in using Teradata to validate data in large relational database. Experience with generating reports using OLAP tools, such as Cognos, BusinessObjects, etc.

Online application available, click here.

Filed under: Business Analysis, Marketing, NYC, NYJJB Featured Jobs, Technology, Trellis Associates.

August 25, 2008. by bgross

Job Description:

Must have strong SQL Server skills

A Technical Business Analyst is needed to provide;

1. Analysis of business reporting requirements
2. Document report specifications, business rules, layout and format.
3. Design reports with User input.
4. Work with Development on Crystal Report Creation, Business Objects deployment.
5. Testing, quality assurance of reports, and data synchronization.
6. Ad hoc business analysis for smaller projects, including business requirements gathering, data analysis and software development lifecycle support.

Work Experience:

Minimum 2 years experience in a progressively responsible similar position.

Soft Skills:

1. Strong analytical and problem solving skills and abilities.
2. Ability to interface with multiple users across the organization and
   effectively project manage reporting requirements from start to finish.
3. Intensive focus on user needs in defining user requirements and
   retrieving accurate information/reporting from data sources.
4. Attention to details, in particular as it relates to compliance and
   accuracy of data.
5. Strong knowledge and comprehension of technology and data management
   used in the process of collecting, storing and retrieving data.
6. Ability to work in a rapidly changing and growth oriented environment
   with regularly changing priorities and developing opportunities
   communication (both verbal and written), and customer service skills,
   and exchange information with others clearly and concisely.
7. Ability to manage own work flow and meet deadlines while responding to
   frequent demands of multiple customers (internal and external)

Online application available, click here.

Filed under: Business Analysis, HiTech Team, New Jersey.

August 14, 2008. by mytrellis

Position Summary:
The Manager, Affiliate and Search Marketing is responsible for overseeing all efforts related to Affiliate & Search marketing including media buying, trafficking, and reporting. The job role is primarily one of customer acquisition, direct response advertising, and analytics. One Marketing Analyst and one Marketing Coordinator will report to this Manager.

II. Essential Functions:

-Oversee launch of an Affiliate Marketing Program (50% of role)

• Develop affiliate marketing strategy.
• Oversee relationship with affiliate marketing provider.
• Manage day to day of program including affiliate approvals, sending of newsletters, offer development, negotiation of placements with partners, and more.
• Prospect for new affiliate partners.
• Conduct analytics, reporting and budgeting for the program.

- Provide guidance to Marketing Analyst on the Search Marketing Program (SEM) (25% of role)

• Assist with publisher relations (i.e. Google, Yahoo, and MSN).
• Work closely with external SEM on further development of campaign including keyword optimization and expansion, landing page optimization, and copy/ offer improvements.
• Report on sales and expenses.

- Manage Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts as it relates to paid links (10% of role)

• Review/analyze site and identify areas for improvement relative to SEO.
• Leverage outside business partners if recommended.
• Develop search engine content to maximize opportunities for indexing, ranking, etc.
• Test/implement different strategies and monitor performance.
• Develop budgets and provide weekly reporting.

- Oversee the Online Travel Agency (OTA) marketing programs - i.e. Travelocity, Expedia (10% of role)

• Work with Sales team on developing marketing plans for each of the OTAs.
• Submit creative briefs for development of banner ads.
• Traffic all creative content to publishers.
• Set up all relevant tracking.
• Report on sales and expenses daily.
• Coordinate landing page experience with web team to optimize conversion.

- Coordinates ad buys with the advertising team (5% of role)

• Ensure that online creative has consistent communication and is flighted similarly to display advertising conducted by the advertising team via the relationship with online advertising agency).

Online application available, click here.

Filed under: Business Analysis, Marketing, Queens, Trellis Associates.

August 8, 2008. by mytrellis

Responsibilities:

Manage and support the Sales pricing request process, pre-sales, pricing, & contract coordination between Business Analysis, Sales, Engineering, Operations, Marketing, Product Development,& Legal including:

• Manage regional/market pricing requests for established products and services;
• Utilize internal database tracking, mapping, cost/price modeling & reporting tools;
• Coordinate engineering estimates/approvals for system generated customer pricing requirements, as well as internal strategic requirements;
• Accurately generate, calculate, analyze & package final customer pricing positions;
• Provide clear and accurate review of contractual requirements which insures a check & balance for the customer pricing agreement (product order/general terms & conditions);
• Understand the basic market network design, strategic market initiatives & product/service information to be utilized in fulfilling specific customer requirements, as well as internal strategic requirements by region/market, which includes:
• Clear and concise understanding of the region/market network architecture;
• Up-to-date knowledge of targeted customer locations and current sales team objectives and priorities;
• Requires the understanding of all cost components, both internally and externally;
• Clear and concise understanding of all products and services (i.e. - financially, supportability, strategically, etc.);
• Perform other duties as requested by Management;
• The individual must comply with departmental and corporate internal controls and all internal controls processes;
• The individual must possess and employ the highest ethical and business standards and always conduct himself/herself with the greatest degree of professional integrity;
• Other duties and responsibilities as required.

Requirements :

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Engineering, Finance or Accounting;
• 3-5 years staff support of sales, proposal and/or project management activities, preferably in the telecommunications and/or IT technical arenas;
• The preferred candidate must have the ability to efficiently and effectively work on multiple, time sensitive projects simultaneously;

In addition, the preferred candidate will have the following specific functional capabilities:

• Decision making skills;
• The ability to communicate and interact with multi-functional departments (i.e., Engr, Operations, Marketing, Sales);
• Basic financial analysis and cost/price development for either products or services;
• Strong PC utilization (excellent working knowledge of ALL Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Access; knowledge of PowerPoint, MS Project and MapInfo - a plus);
• Requires project management skills, attention to detail, proactive and thorough.

Online application available, click here.

Filed under: Business Analysis, Trellis Associates, Westchester.

July 21, 2008. by joe

DeltaForce Legal Staffing is currently seeking a data analyst to work in one of Manhattan’s leading law firms.

Qualified applicants must have:

• At least 2 years of work experience in back office operations at a financial firm.
• Must be proficient at Microsoft Excel and have some knowledge of database management programming, i.e., Access, SQL, Oracle or others, and Crystal report writing software is a plus.
• Familiarity with the subject of securities trading and/or accounting is preferred.
• Four-year degree
• Familiarity with Bloomberg, Thomson Financial, and SEC forms is preferred
• Extreme attention to detail

The Data Analyst is responsible for retrieving securities transactional information from multiple database platforms for institutional investors. The Data Analyst will perform steps to clean-up, manipulate and standardize data into a format that can be imported into a proprietary database of client information for analysis. Additionally, the Data Analyst will be responsible for tracking information that has been received, maintain client history log, and alert team members to problems (e.g., data errors, data integrity, missing data, etc.) The Data Analyst will generate and run reports needed by the Client Services team and in time, be asked to perform analysis of client data using multiple methodologies.

If interested, please submit your resume using link below  with “Data Analyst” in the subject header.

Online application available, click here.

Filed under: Business Analysis, NYC, Software Engineering, Technical.

July 7, 2008. by howard23

Business Analyst- PM – NYC LOCATION – F/T
Super Benefits!!!

Description
Responsibilities
• Manage a variety of business focused projects across multiple departments including, but not limited to, maintaining and updating the content in Knowledge Tool for the telephone service staff
• Participate in client meetings to discuss project implementation and status; work closely with business functional areas, external customers and vendors in defining project priorities, scope, approach, resource requirements and timing deliverables
• Organize and drive regular action meetings with Project Team and Subject Matter Experts to gather information regarding service improvement requests and information updates
• Analyze system applications to identify and document business requirements to achieve optimum service levels
• Conduct analysis of issues identified by end users; present information collected and provide analysis to leadership in the form of solution options and alternatives
• Prepare project plans, track and manage project schedule, and quality of deliverables from departmental project team members; coordinate team assignments, enforce deadline compliance, and document project team meeting results
• Define and communicate necessary business and functional requirements for IT Network group and staff to execute, in order for appropriate business processes and technologies to be developed
• Provide weekly updates on project progress to Project Team and leadership
• Conduct post-project evaluations and support for all deliverables; test all changes/enhancements and communicate with department(s) end users, IT staff, and outside vendors as necessary to identify and document any problems/anomalies caused by changes
• Prepare and report on all metrics to appropriate Fund Departments and executive management
• Additional projects and duties as assigned

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Online application available, click here.

Filed under: Business Analysis, NYC.

July 3, 2008. by mytrellis

Responsibilities:

• Gather and document business requirements and technical specifications
• Identify, conceptualize, develop and implement business solutions
• Participate in system implementation planning and responsible for task execution
• Interface with technology and business users to map out and document business requirements
• Work hand-in-hand with technical resources to provide insight during solution development
• Solve problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of complex factors
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications
• Develop and execute testing procedures
• Conduct, document, and follow-up on QA tests
• Function as a subject matter, process, and operational expert to conduct end user training

Requirements:

• Excellent writing and documentation skills-Exposure to full life cycle project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, RUP etc.) especially case based with an in-depth understanding of a SDLC
• Ability to produce and understand technical documentation such as UML diagrams and database models
• Bachelor’s Degree (advanced degree preferred)

Online application available, click here.

Filed under: Business Analysis, NYC.