Business Analyst, Motion Pictures Monetization

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WBD Monetization Technology team is looking for a Business Analyst with excellent problem solving, functional design, and technical development skills to be a member of a world class technology team, delivering and supporting solutions for the Motion Pictures division.

The Business Analyst, Motion Pictures Monetization, will lead small to medium-sized software development efforts and will be responsible for solving business problems by identifying and gathering business needs, documenting them, and designing & developing solutions with offshore development teams, and support their enterprise-wide implementation. They will be responsible for providing operational support and ensure quality of the solution delivery across our Motion Pictures monetization solutions portfolio and working with offshore development/support teams to design and execute small enhancements.

They will also lead efforts to build Proof-of-Concepts of new products and tools.

Strong knowledge & experience with traditional Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies as well as hands-on experience in business requirements elicitation, process analysis and documentation techniques, functional design thinking and communication (verbal and written), and first-hand software development skills are required. Knowledge of the Theatrical Marketing & Distribution business and experience with the Media and Entertainment industry are a plus.

Business Relationship:
You are the trusted technology partner for multiple Motion Pictures stakeholders. You act as translator/communicator between them and the various internal / external technology teams.

Operational Support:
Triaging and driving production issues to resolution with an eye on continuous improvements, and build subject matter expertise in the business and operational processes to wholly represent the Motion Pictures division in any Technology context

Technology Strategy:
You view the Motion Pictures business from the perspective of technology strategy: what technologies are available in the market that can simplify work, provide insight, expand capabilities, or otherwise support the business in meeting/exceeding their goals

Product Ownership:
You will regularly be brought into large scale technology projects, where you will be required to wear one or more hats:
Own, Lead & Facilitate - Business and Solutions analysis, Requirements Documentation, Solution Design, QA, Change Management and/or Budget analysis.

Technical Ownership:
You are not a developer, but you maintain responsibility and ownership of all technical obligations of the applications/systems/products you are assigned and will drive the engineering and other technical teams to quickly resolve issues involving servers, integrations, Cyber security, etc. as needed. You understand the architecture underlying the systems that you support on a logical level and are able to effectively communicate with engineering teams on their terms.

Bachelor’s degree required. College coursework or working experience in two or more of the following areas:
Accounting/Finance, Business Administration/Operations, Business Information Systems, Computer Science/Software Engineering

High degree of drive and curiosity to learn day-to-day business operations with view on process improvements & optimization and solution orientation.

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