Overview
The Senior Business Analyst works as a liaison among business stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes and information systems. As a quickly growing organization, the successful candidates for this role at Aurinia will have wide-ranging and in-depth experience as a Business Analyst.
The role is responsible for understanding and documenting business requirements for specific business problems, translating business requirements into functional and non-functional specifications, and verifying that solutions meet the requirements. This is done through research, fact-finding, and skilled analysis methods combined with a basic understanding of applicable business processes, systems, and industry requirements. This role also collaborates with other project team members to determine alternative solutions and estimates for data, processes, interfaces, controls and outputs to fit within the schedule and budget.

Primary Responsibilities

• Understand, identify, assess, and document business requirements, recommending business priorities and advising business on options, risks and costs versus benefits of various solutions.

• Works with Business Partners to assist in business process redesign as needed for realization of business benefits.

• Provide input to the development of formal business cases.

• Translate business requirements into functional and non-functional specifications. Develop functional prototypes to further illustrate the business need. Actively manage and communicate changes to specifications.

• Compile all elicitation results and analyze requirements to help determine the best solution.

• Models business information and processes.

• Conduct research to determine if solutions to business requirements currently exist within or outside the business (including COTS software packages), and if not, whether new solutions are feasible. Provides input to buy vs. build decisions.

• Provide input into solution design, architecture, testing, and data management activities of the project to ensure that solution meets the requirements.

• Support the Application Architect in understanding and assessing the fit and gaps between solution design and business requirements.

• Help analyze impact of proposed solution on existing technology platforms.

• Participates in validating, testing, and updating project documentation.

• Identify and communicate risks to delivering solutions on time.

• Provide relevant test scenarios for the testing team; work with test team to develop system integration test scripts and ensure the testing results correspond to the business expectations.

• Validate that the solution design meets business and functional requirements. Review test plans and testing results while maintaining traceability of end user requirements. Assist end-users in preparation and execution of User Acceptance testing.

• Ensure successful solution transition to the support organizations and business users. Support end users and support desk personnel on advanced product and usage issues.

• Develop training material and facilitate in learning sessions.

Stakeholder Partnership:

• Establish strong relationships with business stakeholders to understand the strategic direction and priorities for the business domain.

• This position will require constant collaborative interactions with co-workers across functional groups and departments. Strong interpersonal skills, outstanding verbal and written communication skills are essential.

Qualification

• Formal training in relevant business area, business analysis, or related expertise. (Research, Development, Clinical, Regulatory, Commercial, Operations, or G&A)

Experience:

• Must have experience working in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry.

• Knowledge of pharmaceutical product development operations and processes, such as end-to-end drug development process and knowledge of those functions. Knowledge of biopharmaceutical product development is a plus.

• Detailed understanding of one or more functional areas of pharmaceutical product development (Research, Development, Clinical, Regulatory, Commercial, Operations, or G&A).

• Experience within a regulated environment is a plus, including experience complying with FDA regulations.

• Relevant information systems experience, preferably in a GxP environment.

• Eight or more years of experience in business analysis or business integration function and awareness of emerging business process automation trends.

• Demonstrated ability in liaising with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes and information systems.

• Certification / experience in Operational Excellence / Six Sigma highly desired.

• Certification / experience in BABOK (CCBA or equivalent) highly desired.

Technical Competencies:

• Domain Knowledge: Understands the Life Sciences Healthcare industry and how it operates; Demonstrates knowledge of the domain and how technology solutions can improve or enhance existing processes and overall business results. Understands key business drivers of the domain's strategy, key metrics, processes and its operating model. Has the ability to explain cost/benefit of recommendations presented to domain stakeholders

• Business Requirements Analysis/Documentation: Defining, documenting, and communicating business requirements needed to support technical enhancements

• Requirements Testability and Traceability: Verifying that requirements used in test cases match those requirements used in the development process

• Process Design / Re-Engineering: Analyzing design of business workflows, recommending changes to business processes under the framework of the company's mission, goals and critical business measures such as cost, quality, service and speed

• Quality Assurance Standards and Governance: Developing and establishing risk-based systems development life cycle documentation, policies, and procedures to support implementation and delivery of non-regulated and regulated solutions and systems

Behavioral Competencies:
Tech Savvy: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.

• Manages Complexity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

• Collaborates: Creates a climate in which people want to do their best; can motivate many kinds of direct reports and team or project members; can assess each person's hot button and use it to get the best out of him/her; pushes tasks and decisions down; empowers others; invites input from each person and shares ownership and visibility; makes each individual feel his/her work is important; is someone people like working for and with.

• Situational Adaptability: Quickly finds common ground and solve problems for the good of all; can represent his/her own interests and yet be fair to other groups; can solve problems with peers with a minimum of noise; is seen as a team player and is cooperative; easily gains trust and support of peers; encourages collaboration; can be candid with peers

• Instills Trust: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in his/her team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

• Drives Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results

• Communicates Effectively: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.