Business Analyst position - San Francisco, CA
Contact: Sylvia Tel: (281) 829-1110 x226 sklimicek@smithhanley.com -----POSITION DESCRIPTION------ contract - 6+ months project is scheduled to run 1+ years The roles are a blend of marketing and technology and are more along the lines of a liaison/relationship management role. We have launched a user adoption and advocacy function within our Customer/Marketing DW group. The ideal candidate will be a Project Manager / Business Analyst type of consultant (consulting background would be best ... Accenture, Big 3 VISA, Scwhab) that will understand IT technology (but not technical) Teradata, Access, SAS, SQL Micro-Strategy for their Customer/Marketing Data warehousing group. This is more of a business role that will have the consultant directly interfacing with the different Well's business / customer groups (Investment, Bill Pay, New Accounts, Consumer, Internet, etc.) and their task / subset functions (Marketing, Campaign Management, Direct, Email, Phone, Internet, etc.). These consultants will work directly with these groups to understand the business requirements and functionality of what they currently are getting and what they would like and liaising back to the technical group in this team in order to make sure that they fulfill their request. This is more of a strategic job and they need someone that can look at it from the 10,000 foot level and to work with the business users in order to translate the technical requirements both ways. Exceptional communication skills. Top 3 responsibilities: 1. Work with ongoing relationships with different business units 2. Delivery of Business Projects 3. Project Management skills from and to business units with technical skills Top 3 skills: 1. Relationship Management 2. Ability to understand and translate technical information to and from business units 3. General Knowledge of Data warehouse and Reporting Environment Must be able to identify for userbase their strategy approach to work with the technical group in order to execute.