Business Consultant

Role: Business Analyst

Location-Plano, TX

Type-Full Time

Required Qualifications:

• Candidate must be located within commuting distance of Plano, TX or be willing to relocate to the area.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 4 Years of experience in Information Technology.
• All applicants authorized to work in the United States are encouraged to apply.
• Relevant experience as a domain / business consultant or Business Analyst or an industry practitioner in manufacturing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant experience as a domain / business consultant or Business Analyst or an industry practitioner in Automotive/Mortgage Finance domain
• Extensive experience across end-to-end value chain from Originations to Servicing and Termination
• Demonstrates strong proficiency across all areas of industry knowledge and related best practices to provide insights to the customer on problems spanning multiple functional areas
• Applies broad based understanding of the package/product architecture, including configuration parameters, to implement multiple functionalities meeting both the business and non-functional requirements
• Ability to understand and use advance analysis methods in slightly complex client scenarios to ensure problem areas are identified and impact on the business is understood
• Experience in facilitating meeting and drive discussions with senior customer executives, business users, and IT team members
• Exposure to estimation process to convert requirements into sizing information. Experience in functional testing. Experience in Use case and test scenario documentation
• Familiarity with IT and software development project lifecycle. Experience with Agile practices
• Work on client assignments, typically large transformational IT programs, as an individual contributor or as a lead of junior consultants
• Engage with client business and IT as well as with internal Client stakeholders throughout the phases of an IT program from planning through proposing a solution and implementation
• Define business / process models and document business & functional specifications considering industry best practices
• Provide functions solution / domain expertise to the team and fulfil what is needed to meet project objectives and deliverables
• Work with Client sales team to lead or drive business / functional content in client pursuits.
• Participate in discussion on various functional models, Design patterns and possible applications. Provides leadership in planning and implementation of functional solutions
• Drive thought leadership initiatives including publishing knowledge assets internally and thought papers externally
• Drive business workshops to define requirements and elaborate functional specifications of an IT solution. Contribute to account management strategy and unit strategy as required.