Sr. Business Analyst

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Job description

Job Description

Advance Auto Parts, a leader in the automotive aftermarket, currently has an opening for Data Analytics Business Analyst. As a Sr. Business Analyst at Advance Auto Parts, you will have an opportunity to disrupt a $100B auto parts industry to bring better and faster solutions to customers. You will be responsible for identifying opportunities to solve business problems by applying innovative solutions using data & analytics.

NOTE: OPEN TO REMOTE WORK within the EDT and CDT zone.

Specifically, you will:

• Be a single point of contact for all data & analytics needs for specific set of business & IT organizations
• Apply business knowledge and facilitative expertise to resolve reporting & analytics issues across one or more areas of the business and across multiple projects
• Lead information gathering sessions to understand current and potential customer needs
• Understand and translate business needs into business requirements (user stories and acceptance criteria) and associated activities
• Assist with managing the product backlog
• Work with business users & data architects to translate business rules into data transformation procedures
• Identify, create and exchange process design changes by conducting business and system analysis; focus on quality improvement/data management.
• Develop process improvements eliminate processes, integrate new systems and processes with existing systems.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and ensure the systems or processes provided meet the long-term business strategies.

Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degree in business or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in business analysis across multiple functional areas. Retail Industry experience preferred
• Very focused on agile practices and must have worked on a true scrum team that was part of a product team
• Comfortable interacting with stakeholders at all levels throughout the business.
• Ability to express complex concepts effectively, both verbally and in writing to business partners
• Familiarity with business intelligence platforms such as Tableau or other BI tools
• Understanding of and experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience using JIRA, SQL, Visio, Powerpoint and Excel
• Ability to work effectively with offsite business or technology partners
• Has strong presentation and collaboration skills and can communicate all aspects of the job requirements, including the creation of formal documentation
• Independent. Strong critical thinking, decision making, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Go-Getter. Possesses strong, planning, execution and multitasking skills and demonstrated ability to reprioritize accordingly. Must be able to manage quickly changing priorities while meeting deadlines