Business Strategy Analyst at RusselSmith Group

Job Description

• Provide support in eliciting requirements for strategy through interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, case study, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the needed functional requirements (Business Requirements Document).
• Utilize experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies required.
• Work with the BSS to define concepts to users and under direction of departmental managers.
• Provide necessary support to the BSS to drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates.
• Identify, distinguish and analyze multiple components of a problem and then make conclusions using high-level quantitative skills and where necessary make recommendations for business change.
• Perform strategic operations analysis, identifying performance trends, scanning business/industry trends, reviewing sales/financial analyses and interpreting data.
• Use strategic thinking to see the big picture, determine the problem and understand fundamental parts of the problem.
• Work actively to identify business/industry trends in customer lifestyle and technology, scan competitive landscape; analyze consumer data.

Job Qualifications

• A university degree. Masters degree in Business Management is an added advantage
• 0-2 years of strategic analysis job experience is required
• Experience in working within fast-paced, complex, dynamic, multi-cultural business environment
• Advanced and strategic thinking skills
• Ability to drive components of large multi-functional projects
• Self-starter, strong initiative & leadership
• Strong quantitative skills such as statistics and data analysis
• Good reasoning skills
• Ability to adapt quickly.