Consultant – Business Analysis Automotive

Consultant – Business Analysis with Automotive

We are seeking a Business Analyst to work closely with clients and our design team to deliver best-in-class solutions. This is a full-time, permanent position located in Torrance, CA.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 4 years of experience with Information Technology.

Preferred:

• Past experience with Auto manufacturers or distributors or retailers or suppliers preferred.

BA Responsibilities:

• Work with client business and IT team to understand the client needs.
• Convert the understanding into models and functional documents.
• Work with internal technology teams to provide expertise on requirements and solution.
• Work with the Project Management and other stakeholders to identify risks, issues and potential solutions.
• Be the Subject Matter Expert for the development team.
• Contribute to the account, unit and organization processes and knowledge.
• Work with other consultants in creating artifacts and knowledge assets.

Skills:

• Business analysis, process design, application specification (reports, function, UI), conversion analysis, and user testing.
• Demonstrates sound business and process knowledge and judgment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Should have working knowledge of creating functional requirements including and not limited to Use Case models, Activity diagrams, Data Flow diagrams, User flows and Data Modeling.
• Ability to quickly learn applications and connect the application functions to the business context.
• Ability to interact with customer executives, senior management, managers, architects, developers, quality assurance engineers, subject matter experts, and other software team members in geographically dispersed environments.

Technical

Skills:

• Experience with internet and/or intranet application built in either .Net or Java with web technologies
• Worked with Oracle or SQL Server and tools such as TOAD
• Office 2010 suite
• MS Visio

Nice to have:

• CCBA or CBAP certification.
• Experience in automotive industry in one or more of the below automotive domains
• Automotive Supply chain – Manufacturing, Logistics, and Parts planning and inventory management and distribution
• Automotive sales, aftersales, dealer management, and warranty management
• Experience on user interface design or have worked with UX designers
• Experience in defining requirements for custom or product based applications
• Experience in working with RFP teams
• SCRUM or AGILE framework experience
• Any modeling tool such as Rational Architect, Web Sphere Business Modeler or equivalent.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.