**Job Description**:
3M Is Hiring a Bilingual IT Sr Business Analyst
"3M's culture is driven by curious, spirited and collaborative people who are constantly asking 'What if?' And the many talents of 3Mers around the globe have me incredibly excited about what's to come next." - Kristen Ludgate, senior vice president of Human Resources at 3M
The Impact You'll Make in this Role
Here, you will make an impact by:
- Leading requirements analysis, validation and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable
- Eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or requirements workshops.
- Communicating (verbal and written) with business units that rely on that information to define system requirements or organizational processes and company management
- Collecting and analyzing the project's business requirements and transfer the same knowledge to the development team.
- Reviewing and/or preparing system documentation and specifications in accordance with methodology.
- Leading small teams of analysts to produce targeted results
- Suggesting areas for process improvement along with possible solutions
- Facilitating requirements prioritization based on business value
- Managing requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.
- Managing changes to requirements through effective use of change control processes and tools
- Balancing technology and business issues as well as communicating appropriately with both technology and business experts
- Assisting in enforcement of project deadlines, schedules, and methodologies
- Developing wire frames, workflows, use case diagrams, flowcharts, and other analysis-type documentation.
- Developing test scenarios and test cases, and testing activities necessary to assess the quality and completion of system implementations
- Performing data analytics using SQL and other tools as necessary
- Proactively driving resolution of requirements and projects issues/risks to resolution to prevent impacts to schedule and scope of projects.
- Develop test strategies, scenarios, and test cases to support system integration testing and business user acceptance testing.
- Gather and analyze data for potential business expansion
- Identify specific business opportunities
- Influence stakeholders to support business projects
- Assist with project management for selected projects
- Coordinate with different departmental teams to produce better business outcomes
- Test business processes and recommend improvements
- Convert roadmap features into smaller user stories
- Write clear and well-structured business requirements/documents
- Identify automation opportunities
- Analyze process issues and bottlenecks and to make improvements
- Communicate and validate requirements with relevant stakeholders
- Develop and maintain reporting tools
- Perform data discovery, analysis and modeling
- Collaborate with product manager on roadmap planning and prioritization
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer science, Business or related field (completed and verified prior to start)
- Bilingual english-Spanish
- 7 years of experience as a business analyst in private, public (large and small projects)
- 2 years of experience as a team leader in private, public (large and small projects)
- Understand various SDLC methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc)
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
- _ Experience in cloud computing environments_
- _ Healthcare Order to Cash experience_
- _ Experience in supervising a team of Business Analysts, managing their work, performance evaluation etc._
- _ Experience in developing metrics to measure project/business process performance._
- _ Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills._
- _ Excellent documentation skills._
- _ Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills._
- _ Strong experience in evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions._
- _ Collaborate with development team to create system requirements for the business requirements._
- _ Ability to perform reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies._
- _ Strong experience in requirements analysis, contribute to solution design that meets business requirements_
- _ Lean/Six Sigma Green belt (or other process improvement disciplines)._
- _ Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills across technical and senior operational management audiences._
- _ Familiar with various IT and PM tools - JIRA, RTC etc._
- _ Agile methodologies_
- _ ITIL certified (preferred)_
- _ Proficiency i