Senior Business Analyst

Aga Khan University invites applications for the position of Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

Introduction
Aga Khan University invites applications for the position of Senior Business Analyst for the newly established group of Business Process Re-engineering in IT.

Responsibilities
The incumbent will be responsible for contributing to and supporting Aga Khan University’s goal of becoming a ‘Comprehensive University’ by being an integral member of a resource group that can identify, challenge status-quo and fundamentally re-think business processes that generally cause administrative overheads and/or need to be standardized at a University-wide level.
Responsibilities would include:
•Extensive studying and research of identified current business processes with end users;
•Applying creative and critical thinking and diagnostic ability to gather functional and information requirements and business rules using various elicitation and facilitation techniques;
•Benchmarking with other companies and uncovering new technology;
•Creating the key concepts, guiding principles and design of new solution/revised process;
•Collating and presenting findings to get approval for new solutions;
•Advise the functional business managers/users and project manager in striving for the implementation of best practices/processes and IT capabilities to support the business;
•Consider multiple options, analyse alternatives, and select the one that best supports the business need and technical reality;
•Drive for effective change management and critically review requirements and other Business Analysis deliverables.
Requirements
•Bachelors of Science or equivalent degree;
•Work experience of 4-6 years preferably at AKU as business knowledge is critical for this position;
•Experience/Interest in analyzing processes with an intent to change it for the better;
•Experience in BPR, Process Improvement, system definition, design & testing is preferred;
•Ability to document, analyze and assess a variety of information, identify priorities and resource and propose alternative business processes;
•Strong personality, with an ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships in a multi-disciplinary work environment;
•Excellent communication skills; speaking and in writing to be able to present documents in non-technical language;
•Ability to perform assigned duties under minimum supervision;
•Ability to make effective decisions under pressure.

To Apply
Please send your CV's to staffrecruitment@aku.edu Please mark the subject with the position applied for. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Applications should be submitted latest by November 8, 2011