Let's Rise - Chicago, IL
posted 26 days ago
Full-time - Entry Level
Chicago, IL
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
About the position
The Business Analyst position at Rise involves collaborating with business stakeholders to enhance their processes and systems. The role focuses on conducting research and analysis to design effective solutions that meet the needs of internal customers and end users, ensuring quality and adoption of implemented solutions, and realizing business value. The position requires a self-directed, agile team member who can influence change and improve efficiencies through a deep understanding of business needs and user perspectives.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to improve processes and systems.
- Conduct research and analysis to design solutions that meet internal customer needs.
- Ensure quality and adoption of implemented solutions to realize business value.
- Apply knowledge of lean and agile principles in team activities.
- Engage in user needs assessment, root cause analysis, requirement gathering, and process mapping.
- Analyze processes and production methods for efficiency and project completion.
- Provide expert advice on specific processes and enhance internal processes for future projects.
- Identify inefficiencies and errors, providing actionable solutions.
- Demonstrate internal software to technical staff or end users/clients.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- 2+ years of Business Analyst or comparable experience preferred.
- Experience in agile and scrum environments.
- Effective listening and communication skills.
- Ability to quickly learn and master software systems.
- Exceptional communication, documentation, and writing skills.
- Ability to build rapport with business partners and colleagues.
- Timely delivery of assigned tasks, organized, accurate, and detail-oriented.
- Proactive in learning team and department standards.
- Highly proficient with Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
- Proficient with Visio/Draw IO preferred.
- Experience with Cloud Service Providers (Azure, AWS) preferred.
- Critical thinking skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in a collaborative team environment.
- Knowledge of industry best practices in business analysis.
Benefits
- Career advancement paths
- Collaborative team environment
- Corporate social responsibility initiatives
- Inclusive and diverse culture
- Association with a reputable media agency
