Senior Business Consultant - Perm

Senior Business Consultant - Perm

Digital Skills are working with a great client that is looking for a Senior Business Consultant to join their growing team. Qualified applicants are skilled Analysts with a focus on data, functional planning and technical skills within data, performance reporting, analytics and planning areas.

The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of business processes and the ability to translate complex business requirements into technical and system specifications.

Responsibilities:

• Explore and define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Support multiple business units in the areas of requirements definition, requirements documentation, test case documentation, and creating and updating project documentation such as project plans, spreadsheets, status reports, and presentations.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical paths.
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Ability to work independently and direct team members in a high-pressure, time-critical/client-centric environment Experience working with C-level and Senior Management
• Experience in working with client stakeholders to understand and translate complex business requirements into project-scoping documents.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify issues, and devise contingency plans.
• Ability to understand and apply highly technical specifications to datasets across different industries.
• Experience in facilitating/leading discovery meetings and workshops with client stakeholders.
• Meet with and receive feedback from project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Present and articulate solutions to management and/or project stakeholders and others while interfacing with technical resources, business owners, end users, and management.
• Hands-on abilities to dive into data analysis to assist the team when required.
• Strong data validation and attention to detail is required.
• Strong understanding of data integration (inbound and outbound).
• Assist with prototypes and communicate solutions to demonstrate possibilities to new clients.
• Serve as the conduit between the client business stakeholders and the data engineering team.
• Conduct testing of solutions developed and assist in validating outputs, conduct troubleshooting, and support existing solutions.
• Support the client with data collection, report generation, variance analysis, and data quality monitoring.
• Work in complex environments while performing multiple activities on concurrent development projects and existing production processes.

Desired skills and experience

• Hands-on experience developing Proof of Concept or MVP products for clients.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience in a technical lead role in application development is desired.
• Highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly organized.
• Previous management consulting experience.
• Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to think creatively, highly driven, and self-motivated.
• Demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on capacity.

If this role sounds right to you and you have the skills, please do apply.