Senior Business Analyst (18 month FTC home based)

PURPOSE
As part of post-merger harmonization activity, IQVIA is consolidating its legacy financial ERPs into one solution, Oracle Cloud ERP. This consolidated solution will introduce a new set of financial Chart of Accounts (e.g. Entity, Product, Department, Division) to replace the existing legacy company values. The change to a new COA will impact all downstream systems, applications and business processes. The COA Adoption Project is charged with managing the sequencing of this transition to the new COA in a controlled way that will enable business operations to continue with minimal disruption. This will require a clear understanding of the usage and requirements across the organization as well as the coordination between a number of inter-dependent initiatives, including the standardized data entry and central sourcing of the new COA, alignment with the timelines of critical business projects and the application of the new COA values at individual employee level.
This is a very exciting opportunity to collaborate on a global scale and help drive change and efficiency in systems and processes across the IQVIA estate. The successful candidate will learn many aspects relating to new ways of working at IQVIA which will very likely bring further opportunities after successful program delivery.
The Senior Business Analyst will analyse, document, and manage business requirements related to IQVIA systems and will ensure that requirements are fully understood by the technical team before solutions are designed and implemented.
This position will adhere to established System Life-Cycle (SLC) and Computer System Validation (CSV) procedures, where applicable, in facilitating innovative solutions that meet the specified requirements and add value to the business.
The Senior Business Analyst will collaborate with the system owners to document solution scope, objectives, and added value or benefit expectations.

RESPONSIBILITIES
COA Program Specifics:
• Document COA use within business systems and integrations
• Work closely with architecture teams to agree rollout strategy and timing based on business and IT drivers
• Support IT change cycle through various project methodologies based on specific needs with an emphasis on
• Agile for rolling integration and system change batches
• Waterfall if required for larger system changes 
• Lean methodology understanding also of use as we work in tandem with the business change teams while we process re-engineer
• Test support during unit, system and user acceptance testing
• Hypercare and Warrant support to move changes to bau with minimal disruption to business stakeholders

Generic Responsibilities
• Perform requirements gathering and analysis in order to provide high quality and detailed requirements, ensuring the closest involvement with, and agreement from, Product Owners
• Produce and review data/information models and preliminary system architecture, as needed
• Follow IQVIA System Life-Cycle (SLC) and Computer System Validation (CSV) procedures, as appropriate
• Collaborate with the Product Owner, or delegated member of the applicable business group, to document user requirements
• Model processes to clarify business requirements, and to enhance or re-engineer business processes, prior to, or in parallel with, solution design and implementation, as necessary
• Resolve conflicting end-user requirements
• Lead demonstrations/simulations to illustrate solution design and configurable functionality to Product Owners
• Ensure that appropriate test scenarios are executed to validate agreed solutions
• Maintain knowledge of the IT industry; analyse the abilities of tools and technologies, compare with the need of the business, then recommend potential solutions to managers within the business
• Collaborate with Enterprise System Owners, HRIS and HR Shared Service groups to ensure that business requirements are delivered through successful implementation of optimal, cost-effective solutions
• Provide input to Business Case requirements & other pre-project activities (e.g., high-level requirements, project scope, objectives)

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
• a broad range of system and integration experiences
• strong technical and business writing skills
• team leadership capabilities
• ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences, and business concepts to technical audiences
• ability to develop training and support programs for global technology and process implementations
• an understanding of current requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, and verification, and the ability to apply them in practice
• knowledge of process engineering and process improvements
• ability to guide the user in identifying business requirements and user stories

We know that meaningful results require not only the right approach but also the right people. Regardless of your role, we invite you to reimagine healthcare with us. You will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve human health outcomes. Whatever your career goals, we are here to ensure you get there! We invite you to join IQVIA™

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