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Lead Business Analyst (Japanese Proficiency) (Contractual)

Lingaro
Remote Full Time Negotiable 2 days ago

About the Job

As a Lead Business Analyst, you will play a key role within the Business Analysis competency, partnering with business and technology stakeholders to drive data-driven decision making, process optimization, and successful delivery of analytics solutions. You will lead requirements management activities, facilitate collaboration across cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, and translate complex business needs into scalable Power BI solutions that create measurable value for procurement and finance organizations.
 
What You'll Be Doing:

Business Analysis & Stakeholder Management

Lead requirements elicitation workshops and discovery sessions with procurement leaders, category managers, finance controllers, IT teams, and data owners.
Analyze and document current-state and future-state business processes.
Contribute to and drive continuous process improvement initiatives aligned with evolving business needs within the procurement function.
Facilitate alignment between business and technical stakeholders, ensuring a common understanding of project objectives and requirements.
Act as the primary liaison between business users, project teams, and technical delivery teams.

Solution Definition & Documentation

Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications for Power BI dashboards and analytics solutions.
Define data model expectations, calculation logic, KPIs, business rules, visualizations, user stories, and user interaction requirements.
Produce and maintain high-quality business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, process maps, data mapping documents, and related project documentation.
Review solution designs to ensure alignment with business objectives and requirements.

Project Delivery & Governance

Support the Project Manager in delivering project objectives on time and within budget.
Contribute to scope definition, effort estimation, dependency management, and milestone tracking.
Ensure requirements-related issues, assumptions, risks, decisions, and dependencies are appropriately tracked and managed through RAID and Decision Logs.
Communicate project plans, status updates, risks, and issues across governance forums and stakeholder groups.

Testing, Deployment & Adoption

Coordinate and facilitate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, defect management, and stakeholder sign-off.
Support deployment and implementation activities to ensure smooth solution adoption.
Prepare training materials, user guides, and knowledge transfer documentation.
Provide hypercare and post-go-live support to business users and stakeholders.

Leadership

Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level business analysts.
Promote best practices in requirements management, stakeholder engagement, and business analysis methodologies.
Drive continuous improvement in business analysis processes, standards, and delivery frameworks.

 
What We're Looking For


Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer S

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