Functional Business Analyst Senior Specialist Consultant

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Job description

Description:

Offers functional expertise within portfolio and project teams to support portfolio and functional owners define and deploy solutions. Helps evaluate and define work effort and associated costs of new service requests and projects. Assists in requirements gathering and defining business needs. Includes analysis/evaluation of business and/or system process and functional requirements and development of business cases. Develops relationships with upstream and downstream business partners and customer groups. Identifies opportunities for business or process improvement and makes associated recommendations as appropriate.

Essential Responsibilities:

Supports and provides functional expertise on programs and projects as assigned. Broad application of principles, theories, and concepts in applicable discipline, plus working knowledge of other related fields. Uses professional concepts in accordance with company objectives to solve complex problems in creative and effective ways.

Develops consistent partnerships of shared ownership to resolve and identify impacts between teams. Demonstrates functional area business processes and thoroughly understands assigned cross functional areas.

Directs the analysis of enterprise-wide or very complex client needs in project areas such as new/existing business processes, innovative approaches to solutions support, market research of emerging or available product functionality and operational readiness assessment.

Focus on continued improvement and upgrades of current processes and technology. Sponsors opportunities for increasing business efficiency through improved manual and automated process systems.

Directs the development of comprehensive and strategic business cases with cost/benefit dimensions of proposed projects that are used at management and executive levels for funding and scope decisions.

Oversees the maintenance of domain and/or system knowledge including the development of comprehensive process and system documentation.

Accountable for tracking and/or monitor and report for senior management the results of actualization of benefits.

Directs/conducts the analysis of current business processes and functional requirements. Prepares appropriate documentation to communicate and validate the information. Identifies other initiatives that exist and ensures that efforts are not duplicated.

Consults on the integration of application systems into the work environment.

Identifies and coordinates with other project managers and implements schedule deadlines as appropriate. Manages common resource demands. Provides on-going project management and status reporting at all levels. Provides advice and input into the project plan. Develops techniques for compiling, preparing and presenting data.

Team Leadership: May provide coaching and training; may conduct performance reviews, participate in interviews and provides input to hiring team members. May assign and manage workflow of team members.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience

Minimum ten (10) years directly related experience, to include three (3) years in a consultative role required.

Education

Bachelor's degree in business adminstration, management science, industrial engineering-operations research, or related field, OR four (4) years experience in a directly related field required.

High school diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.

License, Certification, Registration

N/A

Additional Requirements:

Ability to influence multiple cross-functional, and/or multiple cross divisional task forces to identify and document functional requirements, workflow, information sources and system/process specifications.

Ability to establish cross-functional task forces.

Thorough knowledge of platforms within the assigned areas and multiple cross functionality based on assignment.

Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

Twelve (12) years directly related experience, to include five (5) years in a consultative role.

Five (5) years related experience in Healthcare environment.

Master's degree in business administration, management science, industrial engineering-operations research, or related field preferred.

Certification or advanced qualification by third party association that matches the function or field applicable to the business discipline (i.e., AHIP, HIAA, etc.).

Primary Location: California,Oakland,2101 Webster 2101 Webster St. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Shift: Day Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM Working Hours End: 05:00 PM Job Schedule: Full-time Job Type: Standard Employee Status: Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-PO-01|NUE|Non Union Employee Job Level: Individual Contributor Department: Po/Ho Corp - EmSvc Strategy & Planning - 7022 Travel: No Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with federal and state laws, as well as applicable local ordinances, including but not limited to the San Francisco and Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances.