Job Title: Business Process Analyst
Location: Waltham, MA
Duration: 6 Months

Job Purpose
The Plan-to-Perform Business Process Analyst is responsible for supporting the development and execution of the PLTP strategic initiatives across the Finance organization. The Strategic Business Analyst's role is to contribute to or lead activities critical to positive performance outcomes and successful adoption of users tools and the SAC planning products.

Key Accountabilities
• Contribute to the development of plans, roadmaps and strategies ensuring the optimal performance of the Plan to Perform end to end process.
• Analyze business processes and provide innovative and scalable solutions to increase operational maturity and drive efficiencies aligned to the SAC planning.
• Elicit and document functional and non-functional requirements to meet business needs. Identify business drivers and anticipate future business and technology requirements.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and learning opportunities to drive change through implementing people, processes, and technology improvements within the various planning cycle occasions and process improvement work.
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to team members and stakeholders in various initiatives.
• Collaborate with other PLTP team members regarding options, risk and impacts on business processes, along with cultural / change adoption.
• Facilitate business process development workshops and use knowledge and expertise in various process elicitation tools and techniques to successfully step through existing processes while enhancing or developing new processes. Comfortable facilitating discovery sessions to gain insights into end user and customer needs.
• Document current high-level Infrastructure process.
• Work with technical teams and business SMEs to understand, and drive design of improved or new processes.
• Collaborate with other stakeholders to solution process improvement opportunities.
• Lead initiatives to work with cross-functional teams to ensure successful implementation of process improvements.
• Lead daily or weekly support calls with users and SMEs

Skills and Qualifications
• Proven project management, project implementation and change management experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong knowledge of financial processes and workflows
• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), S4, SAP/HANA, PowerBI
• 6+ years preferred in project management or business transformation with broad range of financial forecasting, budgeting and finance operations experience, or, management consulting, business transformation or process improvement.
• Puts into practice Lean, Six Sigma, Agile or other process improvement tools
• Advanced computer skills in MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio
• Passionate and inquisitive approach to solve problems to root cause
• Effective collaboration and partnership capabilities
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills, ability to accurately analyze information
• Experience interacting with business and technical teams to define, develop and deliver improvements
• Strong follow-through skills to ensure achievement of goals and delivery of expected outcomes
• Ability to effectively prioritize multiple competing tasks and demands
• Excellent planning and organizational skills and the ability to work both independently and as a member of a team
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Management or related business field