Position Title: Senior IT Business Analyst
Industry: Twentieth Century Fox Film
Location: Los Angeles, CA 90064.
Job Number: FFE0001633
Description:
Fox Filmed Entertainment News Corporation's motion picture and television programming operations bring the best in comedy and drama to audiences around the globe. Fox Filmed Entertainment is a global leader in movie production and distribution. Twentieth Century Fox Film is responsible for some of the top grossing movies of all time, including history's most successful movies, Avatar and Titanic.
In television production, Twentieth Century Fox Television, together with the Company's other TV studios, produce and distribute some of the world's most popular television programming. The Company's TV studios are leaders in animated series and supply many of the most popular series to each of the major U.S. networks. Visit us at http://www.foxmovies.com/.
Department: IT Studio Services Systems
General Summary:
Supports the business unit(s) by acting in a functional capacity in all phases of the Project Life Cycle for medium to large projects, including post-production support and ongoing maintenance. Drives business process reengineering activities. Serves as senior functional liaison to the user community. Continuously gains an understanding of the customers operations and how systems are used in support of their operations, transferring knowledge to users and other members of the team. Provides front line user support on functional issues.
Responsibilities:
1. Project Initiation
- Develops understanding of customer operations and applies it in researching potential solutions.
- Owns clarification, rationalization and documentation of project requests.
- Prepares and/or reviews the Business Case, Project Charter, Project Cost Justification, ROI and/or benefits evaluation, RFI, RFP, Package Selection Recommendation and other project initiation documents.
- Participates in fiscal planning process
- Facilitates large-group business development planning sessions.
- Ensures appropriate business participation in IT projects.
2. Application Development
- Analyzes and documents relevant business processes.
- Leads interviews with customers to define requirements.
- Defines, documents and reviews functional requirements.
- Leads the detailed design and configuration phase.
- Conducts gap analysis.
- Drives the software selection process, including make vs. buy decisions.
- Owns the Integration Testing process, including development of test plans, test cases and scenarios and documentation of results, or ove
rseeing the completion of these documents created by a Business Analyst.
- Responsible for ensuring that project meets functionality requirements and expected business benefits.
- Responsible for all facets of the User Acceptance Testing process on medium to large size projects.
- Prepares and/or reviews end user documentation, training materials, curriculum and schedule.
- Conducts training classes, including train-the trainer, one-on-one or classroom style training.
- Provides first line post implementation support to users regarding functional issues.
- Engages all relevant participants in change management activities, where appropriate.
- Facilitates large-group project related sessions, organizes and runs conference room pilots.
3. Production Support
- Takes ownership of functional issues by identifying underlying problems, analyzing potential solutions and implementing system resolutions, including workarounds.
- Performs the functional analysis for complex production support activities and advises Business Analysts in the analysis of less complex issues.
- Applies and enforces department change control policies & procedures.
- Takes the lead in coordinating with other IT departments on integrated system support.
4. Administration
- Mentors and leads Business Analysts and other team members.
- Communicates plans, status and issues to management on a regular basis.
- Adheres to and enforces department standards, policies, procedures and industry best practices.
5. Departmental Responsibilities
- List specific departmental requirements]
Experience:
- A minimum of 5-7 years of experience in applications development analysis and implementation support.
- Extensive experience in defining user requirements.
- Experience with relevant business application software preferred.
- Experience with project management software preferred.
- Entertainment industry experience preferred.
- Project lead experience strongly preferred.
Competencies:
- Business - Comprehensive
- Technical - Comprehensive
- Communication - Comprehensive
- Relationship Management - Comprehensive
- Teamwork - Comprehensive
- Project Management - Comprehensive
Education: BA/BS
Certification/Licenses: Project Management Professional Certification preferred.
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