Business Analyst II

Position Summary

As a Business Analyst, you will be facilitating multiple business areas to elicit business processes and requirements and to identify improvement opportunities with the goal of implementing new functionality. As a member the Home Building Group, Manufacturing Portfolio team, you will use analytical skills and tools to document and clarify stakeholder requirements for designing and implementing projects. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must for you to serve as liaison between the business and technical teams including Tech shared services teams, portfolio teams, development teams, and subject matter experts. This is a business and technology-facing role, requiring strong problem solving, analytical, and organizational skills.

About The Team

The Home Building Group has a unique opportunity to work with 40 distinct Home Building Facilities. The Home Building Group is comprised of over 12k team members and produces over 50k homes per year. The Home Building Group Tech Team supports projects which help make construction sites safer, workers more efficient, and deliver a terrific experience for homeowners via communication tools and support. We work to increase productivity, improve collaboration, and tackle complex projects.

This role will partner with Home Building Group and technology teams in all phases of the project lifecycle. Responsibilities will include a full range of activities from leading mid-size to large projects to assisting or collaborating with other tech roles on more complex projects.

Primary Responsibilities

• Break down business requirement and technical complexities so that they can be easily understood by software engineers and business end users.
• May be responsible for developing, maintaining, and executing an organizational change management strategy and plan which includes stakeholder management, communications, training, and monitors overall organizational readiness. 
• Advocate process changes to business stakeholders and technical professionals to support future-state design process improvements, and new products / platforms.
• Provide leadership for the implementation of process improvement opportunities by identifying potential improvements, mapping out process changes, obtaining buy-in and approval, refining requirements and scope, and proactively communicating project capabilities to business leaders, stakeholders, technical professionals, and users.
• May be responsible for vendor and/or 3rd Party coordination and communication.
• Serve as a mentor to other team members.

Primary Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical and business experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite: Including Intermediate in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Proven ability to facilitate requirement workshops / training sessions with large groups of business users and leadership.
• Experience in process mapping, group facilitation, data gathering and analysis, and phases of project life cycle (requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, training, and measuring effectiveness) and/or Agile Development cycles.
• Proven ability to collaborate with Quality Assurance professionals to develop test cases and conduct user acceptance testing.

Desired Skills

• Ability to learn software applications and understand data to ensure data integrity and to query, process, and analyze data.
• Ability to elicit report requirements, understand data to design a report, translate requirements for development and validate the report.
• Strong ability to work effectively within time constraints, changing priorities, and independently.
• Strong detail orientation and analytical / problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to introduce new technology features and functionality to user groups.
• Proven ability to improve processes for efficiency and/or cost savings.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse group of team members across a variety of business units, including executives, managers, technology professionals, subject matter experts, and end users.

Behavioral Competencies

• Influence and persuasion
• Conflict management
• Deliberative decision making
• Strategic thinking
• Analytical thinking
• Business acumen
• Adaptability
• Managing innovation

Why Clayton Homes?

Founded in 1956, Clayton is a Berkshire Hathaway Company committed to opening doors to a better life and Building Happyness® through homeownership. Through its family of brands, Clayton builds