Senior Business Analyst

Job ID: 514261

CRH's Americas Materials, a division of CRH, is the leading vertically integrated supplier of aggregates, asphalt, ready mixed concrete and paving and construction services in North America. Our operations span North America with over 28,000 employees at close to 1,600 locations in 43 US States and 2 Canadian provinces.

Position Overview

The IT Business Analyst collaborates with business stakeholders, Information Technology resources, vendors, and other key stakeholders to understand, document, and clearly articulate business processes, structures, policies, and operations as well as system data flows and usage.

They work with stakeholders across the organization to ensure that requirements, priorities, functional designs, technical designs, and solution designs drive the desired business outcomes. The documents and artifacts they create are easily understood by both business and technical team members and provide team members with the information they need to design, build, deliver, and sustain technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities (Essential Duties and Functions)

To perform this job satisfactorily, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Leadership Functions: ​

• Accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the team​.
• Develop and explicitly communicate Product and Project goals​.
• Create and clearly communicate the Product Backlog items​ and Project requirements.
• Ordering and prioritization of Product Backlog items​.
• Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood​.
• Foster teamwork across teams​.
• Puts the team before themselves​​.

Business Data Analyst Functions: ​

• Document demand and project requirements from initiation through definition of done including eliciting and delivering requirements, change management facilitation, perform gap analysis, communication, testing, and training while promoting best practices and standards.​
• Engage with all project stakeholders both internally and externally including Executive and IT Management, Project Sponsor, Product Owner, Subject Matter Experts and additional required resources to continually seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen customer relationships​.
• Responsible for eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process mapping and descriptions, build vs buy analysis, task and workflow analysis for critical evaluation of 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​.
• Create and deliver artifacts derived from functional requirements utilizing: Business Requirement Documents, Functional Design Documents, Technical Design Documents, Diagrams, User Stories and Mockups for development and subject matter acceptance to establish the technical vision and balance usability and performance needs​.
• Assist in coordination, leading and/or participating in the testing process and UAT​.
• Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on the user requirements​.
• Capture simple to complex business logic and transformation calculations and translate them to overall project deliverables.
• Generate data lineage and Transformations logic from industry standard ETL tools and add that as part of the playbook.
• Capture Data Quality rules and provide to development team to be included for reconciliation process.
• Create and maintain processes to generate accurate and timely reports that help stakeholders understand and act on key data insights.
• Assist Product Owner with user story creation and backlog management​ ("Service to the Product Owner")​.
• Assist Product Owner and Lead Developer in executing showcases​.
• Responsible for developing internal and external communications​ related to releases and product demos.
• Lead the request for proposal (RFP), process by working with business, performance, IT, and vendors to document requirements, prioritize features, identify potential vendors/solutions, coordinate demos, consolidate and analyze vendor responses, work with IT teams to conduct technical and security assessments, develop budget models, and finalize the selection of a product.

Qualifications

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's degree in IT, business, or computer science or equivalent IT experience.
• 5-7 years’ experience eliciting and documenting requirements, including business requirements, functional requirements & technical requirements.
• 3+ Years of experience with software development and/or writing SQL queries for data analysis.
• 3+ Years of experience working as a business analyst with software development and/or Data and Analytics organizations.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) a plus​.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) a plus​.
• Certified Product Owner (CPO) a plus​.
• Experience working on Cloud Datawarehouse platform (Snowflake, Azure Synapse etc.).
• PC skills and hands-on experience building tools and presentations with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Access.

Work Requirements

• Must be 18 years in age or older.
• Must pass pre-employment drug screen and criminal background check.
• Strict adherence to safety requirements and procedures as outlined in the Employee Handbook.
• Willingness to work independently within a team environment and assist the team with other duties as required.
• Must be available to travel up to 10%.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Able to communicate with others by telephone and in person.
• Able to utilize a computer for word processing, email communication, and preparation of documents and presentations.
• May require sitting for extended periods of time.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Usually, normal office working conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
• The position may require work outside of normal business hours.

The statements included in this job description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements and criteria necessary to successfully perform the job. Other duties may be assigned as required. Requirements for this job are subject to modification by the Company and its designees, and reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

What CRH Offers You

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• An inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

If you’re up for a rewarding challenge, we invite you to take the first step and apply today! Once you click apply now, you will be brought to our official employment application. Please complete your online profile and it will be sent to the hiring manager. Our system allows you to view and track your status 24 hours a day. Thank you for your interest!

CRH Americas Materials Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

EOE/Vet/Disability

CRH is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.