Business Analyst

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DirectedLINK
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Salary
USD 55.00 per hour
Posted
16 Sep 2020
Closes
21 Sep 2020
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Job role
Business analyst, CFO
ROLE: BUSINESS ANALYST

TYPE: SHORT TERM CONTRACT 6 WEEKS

LOCATION: REMOTE

INDUSTRY: RETAIL

COMPENSATION: $50/HR

Role:

Our client is a prominent player in the Artificial Intelligence space. They are looking for a business analyst to join their project team at their client site, one of the biggest footwear brands in the world.Client site is located in Los Angeles, but currently work is being done remote due to coronavirus.Contract is for 6 weeks.

Candidates for the retail business analyst with 5+ years of consulting experience working with mid- to senior-level clients. Excels at interviewing clients, translating business problems into technical requirements, and working with internal technical teams.

Responsibilities:
  • Interview client teams and understand their business requirements, challenges, pain points with existing reporting outputs and processes
  • Understand retail decisions that clients take based on these reports and recommend enhancements in decision-making based on additional data elements.
  • Make recommendations to rationalize and consolidate reports into fewer dashboard(s) and work with internal teams to design and socialize wireframes with the client
  • Capture business requirements and help translate into technical requirements for the data engineering team
  • Provide regular updates on an ongoing basis to clients and help with executive leadership updates

Qualifications & Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of consulting experience with retail domain knowledge
  • Communicate ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all types of audiences and be able to write narratives, business requirement documents and other pseudo-technical documentation
  • Characteristics of a forward thinker and self-starter that flourishes with new challenges and adapts quickly to learning new knowledge
  • Ability to work with a global team of consulting professionals across multiple onsite and offshore locations

Key Skills:
  • Required: MS Office (Excel, Word, PPT), MySQL (basic)
  • Desired: MicroStrategy, Tableau, 4GL scripting