Business Analyst (Plan Transformation) (NCS/Job/ 3479)

As Business Analyst Plan Transformation you will support critical global initiatives in plan and inventory and help establish a globally harmonized view of Plan and inventory data products.

You will analyze business needs, collaborate with business and IT partners to shape requirements, and enable reporting to support business processes. You will work closely with the demand and supply planning teams across regions to harmonize and build reporting various plan use cases. You will work closely with global and regional inventory managers and process owners and help build the necessary reports for various initiatives in inventory optimization projects. You will be responsible for testing and validating data builds and software applications, ensuring that they meet the functional requirements and specifications. This will involve developing and executing test plans and test cases, identifying defects, and working collaboratively with the build team, business poc’s and product owners to resolve issues adhering to the defined timeline. If you have strong techno-functional expertise and a passion for data.

Business:

· Deeply understand business goals and strategies, as well as operational context and processes

· Gather, analyze, document, and validate the needs of business stakeholders. Document business user requirements – BRDs

· Analyze data needs for the report and identify and document source table and field names along with target data structures- MDDs

· Write JIRA user stories, attend scrum calls, manage story progress with IT teams.

· Provide regular, timely, transparent communication on progress to capabilities leadership teams.

· Ensure business solutions are deployed, fully embedded into ways of working, and constantly improved to address changing business needs and transform and mature our business.

· Work closely with data asset and front end powerbi development teams for report builds.

Technical-

· Adept with Azure SQL and Jira, Identify all reporting requirements and business functionality and KPIs, filters, identify source and target tables.

· Perform a high-level analysis of the reports to be built, maintain design documentation and user stories.

· Responsible for identifying and curating L2 data assets(semantic builds) for OneS4 reporting.

· Check if these entities are available in Digital Core

· Sometimes the entities might be available, but this source might not be curated.

· Sometimes the entities might be available, but it might be lacking the necessary columns.

· At times the entity might have to be curated as a new data asset

· Using the above high-level assessment, provide

· Documentation of the curation requirements – possibly with support from Business Analysts/Developers [code analysis]

· Work with data asset teams to model the data requirements into existing/new data assets

· Work with Business Owners for UAT

· Perform adhoc analysis for capabilities as needed