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Ian Kennedy
President

ikennedy@schegggrou p.com
www.schegggroup. com
203-538-8802 (w) 203-225-0893 (f)

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Job Title:

High Level Job Description:

Analyzes business and technical processes to formulate and develop new and modified business information processing systems, such as production and inventory control systems, financial tracking systems, marketing and human resources systems. Represents the business unit to define requirements and business cases for the technology developments. Coordinates with business and technology teams, ascertaining system requirements, such as program functions, output requirements, input data acquisition, and system techniques and controls. Requires knowledge of e-commerce tools, computer system capabilities, business processes, and work flow. Assignments are received in task oriented terms. Provides direction to subordinates using established policies and precedents. Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment and overall quality and efficiency. Administers and executes policies and procedures that typically affect individual subordinate employees. Accomplishes
tasks mainly through direct supervision of predominately highly skilled non-exempt and entry level exempt employees. Meets the minimum requirements of executive exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Monitors daily operations of a unit and actively assists, or provides direction to, subordinates as required. May perform, especially in staff or professional businesses, ongoing operational tasks of organization units. Ensures that projects are completed on schedule following established procedures and schedules. Erroneous decisions or recommendations or failure to achieve results might cause delays in program schedules and result in the allocation of more resources. Majority of liaison is on internal basis with subordinates and supervisors at equivalent level or one level higher. Liaison normally involves specific phases of a project or operation. External contacts are infrequent and involve routine matters. 6 - 8 years of experience, with related
Bachelors degree.

Job Description:

OVERVIEW: The "Business Analyst – IT Planning & Portfolio Management" will work as part of the Corporate Systems Group within a Fortune500 company, participating in the strategic IT planning process for a portfolio of 130+ financial, tax, treasury, legal, audit, compliance, security, and facilities systems.

The successful candidate must quickly develop a broad understanding of various initiatives, its leadership, needs, gaps, and priorities in order to contribute to a life-cycle analysis of these systems and help create business cases and road maps.

The position involves constant interaction with the user group and the vendor base, and an appropriate understanding of the application release management and infrastructure landscape.

Skill Sets:

Required:

Logistics

Desired:

Required Qualifications

RESPONSIBILITIES: The selected candidate will perform the following activities

• Assist in writing technology justification Business Cases and formulating the portfolio road map

RESPONSIBILITIES: The selected candidate will perform the following activities

• Assist in writing technology justification Business Cases and formulating the portfolio road map

• Participate in the creation, analysis, and communication of corporate information technology (IT) strategic plans and investment strategies

• Gather data from stakeholders that would help in conducting gap analysis & value-stream mapping, establishing KPI and assessing compliance to standards

• Collaborate with stakeholders to implement remediation plans for compliance

• Understand the infrastructure as well as application environment

• Create templates for application specific data gathering from vendors and collect such data on a periodic basis to populate the Application Portfolio Management tool

• Maintain positive relations with all stakeholders

SKILLS:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical/engineeri ng field, IT-related field, or business administration

• Possess a good working knowledge of the principles of project & portfolio management, infrastructure maintenance, systems engineering, and strategic planning process

• Proven ability to gather data, dig into data inconsistency and research new data sourcesBr>
• Reasonable understanding of various financial systems used in a large corporate setup

• Accurate and detail oriented, comfortable with handling large data sets

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills • Effective communication skills – written, verbal, and presentation • Experience with software development life cycles, ITIL concepts, infrastructure roll-outs, security issues, and application release management • Expert in Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, and Visio • Participate in the creation, analysis, and communication of corporate information technology (IT) strategic plans and investment strategies

• Gather data from stakeholders that would help in conducting gap analysis & value-stream mapping, establishing KPI and assessing compliance to standards

• Collaborate with stakeholders to implement remediation plans for compliance

• Understand the infrastructure as well as application environment

• Create templates for application specific data gathering from vendors and collect such data on a periodic basis to populate the Application Portfolio Management tool

• Maintain positive relations with all stakeholders

SKILLS:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical/engineeri ng field, IT-related field, or business administration

• Possess a good working knowledge of the principles of project & portfolio management, infrastructure

maintenance, systems engineering, and strategic planning process

• Proven ability to gather data, dig into data inconsistency and research new data sources

• Reasonable understanding of various financial systems used in a large corporate setup

• Accurate and detail oriented, comfortable with handling large data sets

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills • Effective communication skills – written, verbal, and presentation

• Experience with software development life cycles, ITIL concepts, infrastructure roll-outs, security issues, and application release management

MUS BE LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY RESPONSIBILITIES: The selected candidate will perform the following activities • Assist in writing technology justification Business Cases and formulating the portfolio road map • Participate in the creation, analysis, and communication of corporate information technology (IT) strategic plans and investment strategies • Gather data from stakeholders that would help in conducting gap analysis & value-stream mapping, establishing KPI and assessing compliance to standards • Collaborate with stakeholders to implement remediation plans for compliance • Understand the infrastructure as well as application environment • Create templates for application specific data gathering from vendors and collect such data on a periodic basis to populate the Application Portfolio Management tool • Maintain positive relations with all stakeholders SKILLS: • Bachelor's degree in a technical/engineeri ng field, IT-related field, or
business administration • Possess a good working knowledge of the principles of project & portfolio management, infrastructure maintenance, systems engineering, and strategic planning process • Proven ability to gather data, dig into data inconsistency and research new data sources • Reasonable understanding of various financial systems used in a large corporate setup • Accurate and detail oriented, comfortable with handling large data sets • Strong analytical and problem solving skills • Effective communication skills – written, verbal, and presentation • Experience with software development life cycles, ITIL concepts, infrastructure roll-outs, security issues, and application release management • Expert in Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, and Visio

Questions:

1. Briefly describe your experience with the requirements gathering process.

2. Provide an example where you have collected & analyzed large data sets from stakeholders.

3. Describe a situation where you communicated your requirements to the project team.

4. Are you comfortable with multi-tasking - provide an example from prior experience?

Regards,
Barbara Marcus, Talent Acquisition
ASAP
An Inc. 500 & WBENC Certified Company
East Brunswick, NJ
Other Office Locations GA, TX, IL, WA
Phone: 732-254-1332 x 204
fax: 732-254-1622
bmarcus@myasap. com
http://www.myasap. com

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2.: DeVry IT Work Group, 11/24/2009, 10:00 am

Posted by: "itroundtable@yahoogroups.com" itroundtable@yahoogroups.com

Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:57 am (PST)

Reminder from: itroundtable Yahoo! Group
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DeVry IT Work Group
Tuesday November 24, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
(This event repeats every month on the last Tuesday.)
(The next reminder for this event will be sent in 6 days, 2 minutes.)
Location: De Vry University, 35 Plaza
Street: 81 East State Route 4
City State Zip: Paramus, NJ 07652

Notes:
Note Special Date and Time

35 Plaza
81 East State Route 4

Paramus, NJ 07652

201-556-2840

We are pleased to invite our Alumni and Friends to join us from 10:00AM to 12:00PM at DeVry University on Route 4. (Bring resume and Business cards)(Please dress business casual)
You will have the opportunity to tell us about yourself, share contacts, names of companies who are hiring, recommend IT Search and Consulting Firms. Any job leads or information you have that will connect people to work will be appreciated. And of course to NETWORK!!

You must register at http://devryitworkgroup.eventbrite.com

For those who have landed, come share the good news or send us the details.
Thanks for sending job leads to the work group.

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