Senior Business Analyst - Project Management Office

Title: Senior Business Analyst - Project Management Office
ID: ACC00006436

Description
The Senior Business Analyst will plan for and execute on business analyst activities for one or more projects of medium size/complexity and will work with project and business management to ensure technical and/or business objectives are achieved.

Typical projects may include the entire life cycle from requirements through to business transition or specific parts of the life cycle of a larger project. Typical project complexity/size will 6-12 months duration and involve up to 10 FTEs across one or more locations.

Key Responsibilities
- Elicit, Model, Document & Confirm Business Requirements - Identification of a complete, clear, correct, and consistent list of business requirements.
- Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage scope consensus, requirement traceability, maintain requirements for re-use, finalize, and communicate.
- Analyze Business Requirements - Model requirements, prioritize, and prepare the To-Be State or Receiving Site's needs. Define the metrics to measure the ROI.
- Assess Proposed Solution - Does the proposed solution(s) meet the stakeholder and solution requirements, and what are the organization's readiness needs?
- Evaluate Solution Performance - Monitor the solution and asses metrics to realize return on investment.
- Update Current State Model - Maintain the Process Definition and update with the new solution and metrics.
- Plan Business Analysis Activities - Determine which activities are required, what deliverables will be produced, estimate the effort to perform that work, and identify which techniques will be employed.
- Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Identification of stakeholders who may be affected by a proposed initiative or who share a common business need.
- Define the Business Need - The business need defines the problem that the business analyst is trying to find a solution for.
- Assess Capability Gaps - To identify new capabilities required by the enterprise to meet the business need.

At Thomson Reuters, we deliver intelligent information quickly and efficiently, so professionals have knowledge to act. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and scientific, healthcare, and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

Qualifications
Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills:
- 4-year college degree, preferably in Business or Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- In pursuit of CBAP designation or equivalent certification related to business analysis.
- 6+ years experience of structured requirements management utilizing industry standard techniques (process modelling, data modelling, use cases, JAD, Case Tools, etc.).
- Experience must demonstrate executing on projects (with teams based in multiple locations) to successfully deliver within specified timescales and budget.
- Business Knowledge - Understand basic fundamental business principles and best practices, in order to ensure they are incorporated into and supported by solutions.
- Solution Knowledge - Awareness of existing solutions, and experience implementing a change.
- Methodologies - Strong background with various solution development methodologies which may include lean, waterfall, and agile development.
- Software Tools - Advanced skills using the following software applications: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Visio.
- Analysis Tools - Advanced employment of the BA Analysis Tools to estimate & accomplish the analysis activities, including: Facilitation, Elicitation, Benchmarking, Business Rules Analysis, Data Flow Diagrams, Metrics & KPIs, Prototyping, Risk Analysis, SIPOC Diagrams, State Diagrams, SWOT Analysis, User Stories & Use Cases

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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Job: Accounting & Finance
Primary Location: US-MN-Eagan
Organization: Finance - PMO
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard