Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Edmonton, AB (Hybrid)
    
Estimated Duration: 12 Months

Major Responsibilities and Scope of Work:
– Define the specific list of business and process analysis deliverables that covers the scope of the project, identifying the stakeholders who will be part of the creation and validation of each deliverable with Project Manager.
– Estimate and plan work independently with key stakeholder and project team.
– Drive strong stakeholder engagement with relationship building.
– Independently lead across campus process analysis and work with key stakeholders to provides business process re-engineering to support the CMS with standardized methodologies.
– Documenting and/or updating current state business processes and Standard Operating Procedures (manual and system) for administration, departments and faculties.
– Complete current and future state time in motion studies on core business process activities to determine measurable benefits.
– Partner with key stakeholders to document business problems and identify process improvements that will create capacity and economies of scale
– Build out future state processes and standard operating procedures for administration, departments and faculties.
– Eliciting, gathering, verifying, validating and prioritizing business requirements with project partners, using future state processes.
– Identifying opportunities to streamline, automate and scale existing operations/services/systems to enable greater efficiency and effectiveness across project partners
– Assess stakeholder impacts brought about by changes or new business processes.
– Implementing change management strategies to support project partners navigate change.
– Maintaining a systems thinking approach considering broader impacts and institutional objectives in mind. –
Facilitate Our multistage Request for Proposal process with campus partners with the objective of finding the solution(s) that meet future state processes
– Work closely with project team members for prototyping, translating business processes, requirements to technical business rules and workflow.
– Facilitate design workshops and lead the implementation efforts for new CMS solution(s)
– Act as the liaison between business and technology staff, providing the business perspective in the analysis and design of future state solutions
– Creation of sustainment measuring and metrics, to ensure processes are working as intended or changes are documented for future implementation

What We Need from You:
Extensive senior business process analysis and solution assessment experience related to complex enterprise solution implementations Process Improvement certification Process Modelling and / or Business optimization training and expertise
Lean Six Sigma experience is preferred.
Experience driving or participating in large change and transformation efforts, business optimization initiatives, assessments and reviews
Workshop, facilitation or training experience is preferred.
Considerable experience working in a post secondary or public sector environment is necessary 
Experience implementing and/or managing enterprise solutions
Experience working with multiple business, technical and vendor teams