Associate Business Analyst – Operations IT, APAC
The Associate Business Analyst contributes to business transformation by supporting the analysis of business and system opportunities. The role helps connect business stakeholders and IT organization to improve efficiency, assists in seeking opportunities to enhance processes and technology solutions aligned with strategic goals, promoting effective and positive customer experiences.
The Associate Business Analyst is responsible for maintaining a good understanding of the business across various functional areas, along with familiarity with core application landscapes and capabilities. The role is responsible for analyzing of business processes, leadingor assisting in process and technical discussions, helping facilitate solution definition, and contributing to the integration of business processes, roles, and technologies to help meet business objectives. The Associate Business Analyst plays a role in identifying opportunities to refine current processes and solutions for improved scalability and optimization.
The Associate Business Analyst operates in a hybrid working environment, joining project teams to support delivery from initiation to completion, helping ensure solutions are delivered on schedule and within budget. The role follows project management standards and assists with stakeholder engagement, risk identification, and delivery of business benefits. As the organization embraces agile ways of working, the role will learn and help apply agile practices and techniques, such as scrum, within project teams.
Typical Accountabilities
The Associate Business Analyst is expected to take accountabilities in the following:
Business Needs Identification - Supports in the assessment and definition of business needs and areas for improvement. identifying opportunities for enhancement aligned to strategic goals and participates in gathering supporting research from internal and external sources to suggest potential solutions.
Business Analysis Planning -supports planning for assigned business analysis activities of projects, to meet project deliverables and deadlines.
Stakeholder Analysis & Change - Effectively identifies stakeholders from certain areas of the business, and actively builds and maintains relationships according to individual stakeholder needs. Contributes to or drives communication plans and change management for project and stakeholders.
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition - Responsible and accountable for requirements management plans including elicitation, approvals, processes, RAID and scope impacts. Identify functional and technical requirements, translating the requirements into design specifications reflecting Functional Design, User Interface Design and Business Process Design. Closely partners with the Architecture team, ensuring the technical solution will deliver the agreed business benefits and fits with AZ IT strategy and standards.
Business Case Definition - Shapes and defines the low to medium size business cases, producing detailed business justification for investment including ROI and benefits realization.
Solution Evaluation - Proficient in analyzing and assessing solution proposals and able to articulate supporting reasoning. i.e. assessing business readiness, maximizing value vs. spend.
Works collaboratively with:
Business Stakeholders to ensure the effective capturing of business requirements , that solutions fulfil their future strategic needs and challenges, and commitment to project objectives
Business Partners to develop and maintain the business relationship, support business process change and act as point of contact for application development
Process owners to identify and devise solutions that optimize business process performance, capability and competitiveness
IT Architecture, Delivery and Support to ensure clear understanding of requirements and effective testing so that the solutions delivered to the business are efficient and effective, meeting the customer experience expectations.
Internal and External Suppliers to ensure delivery of agreed products and services while ensuring adherence to AZ project delivery standards
Education, Qualifications and Experience
Essential
Technical or Business Degree or proven relevant experience
Demonstrated 3+ yrs direct experience in SAP related process (PP/WM/QM relevant is preferred) or other ERP systems
Proven experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
Proven experience of working with integrated systems such as MES/SAP integration
Proven skills and experience of IT project delivery
Experience working in a global organization where stakeholders and project team members are geographically dispersed.
Experience of working in a regulated environment
Desirable
Lean principles
Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge
Cross industry business awareness/business domain knowledge
Degree in relevant discipline or formal certification in business analysis practice
Knowledge of Industry 4.0 digital technologies
AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.
