Sr. Business Analyst

Company: Stand Together
Location: Arlington
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

Location: Arlington, VirginiaCategories: Engineering and ITReq ID: 4612Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and outcomes-focused Business Analyst to play an integral role in the discovery, documentation, and improvement of processes across our organization. This role will serve in a generalist capacity and support a broad range of teams and projects that require the ability to analyze operational, technical, and functional processes. Examples of the work you contribute toward may include IT service optimization, operational excellence initiatives, and systems and process consolidation.

If you thrive in a consistently transforming environment and have a passion for driving process improvements, this is an incredible opportunity to innovate within our growing organization.

Your Responsibilities Include

• Work across multiple matrixed teams including Infrastructure, Finance, Accounting, HR, and our front-line customers to build a deep understanding of business processes ranging from operational to technical
• Initiate and lead meetings with process stakeholders around the community to build process flows, gather requirements, make sense of as/is state, and identify opportunities for efficiencies and improvement
• Evaluate business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and advising on potential solutions
• Execute changes and light project management for implementing solutions
• Develop comprehensive understanding of Stand Together's matrixed operational model in order to take a proactive approach to identifying cross-functional improvement opportunities
• Serve as process SME and interface with project teams and business leads as projects are analyzed and carried out
  
  Knowledge and Skills You Bring to the Organization
  
  • 5+ years of experience in a Business Analysis capacity or similar role focused on understanding and improving complex business processes
  • High level of business acumen and economic thinking with a proven track record of working across multiple business and technical areas
  • Ability to articulate specific examples of how you have independently driven value for an organization by mapping out processes, producing valuable insights for optimization, and influencing action from stakeholders
  • Familiar with industry standard frameworks for business analysis and process design
  • Strong interpersonal skills, including ability to communicate and present (written and verbal) to all levels of the organization
  • Drive and desire to learn and grow both technical and functional skill sets
    
    About Us
    
    Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference.
    
    Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential.
    
    Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds-including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy-to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.
    
    Our Values
    
    Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Market Based Management -- (MBM -- ). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, MBM-- prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.
    
    We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color,race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.
    
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