Lead Business Analyst

About the Department 

The Finance & Operations department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance & Operations works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization in order to provide business process and technical solutions to meet user needs. Possesses expertise in the business unit(s) they support which include Finance & Operations, Ethics & Compliance, Procurement, and Business Services - Order-to-Cash, as well as an understanding of the IT organizations systems and capabilities. Provides business process and technical solutions to a wide range of complex problems. Plans, organizes and directs the daily operational activities of team members in IT.

Relationships

This position reports to Associate Director, IT Project Execution. Independently determines and provides business need analysis and process analysis towards providing IT solutions. This position will have frequent interaction internally, cross-organizationally, and with external contacts. May interact with senior personnel.

Essential Functions

• Analyzes and Fulfills Business Needs:
  • Applies requirements elicitation, analytical, and communication skills to analyze information needs and functional requirements to deliver the following artifacts as needed - User/Functional requirements including use cases, business process models, and design requirements
  • Elicits requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, scenarios, tasks and workflow analysis.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills required to clearly communicate with internal stakeholders at all levels as well as external stakeholders to ensure alignment on project requirements, schedules, feasibility, and resources
  • Fosters and develops an environment of open and honest communication to build strong partnership and a positive perception of IT
  • Has a strong understanding of the business partners products, services, finances, and strategies as well as influencing business forces such as customers, suppliers, competitors, regulators, and stockholders
  • Leverages knowledge of the business and industry to influence and impact the decision-making process and the development of future strategies
  • Proactively collaborates with business leaders to identify and prioritize projects to ensure the delivery of on time and quality solutions
  • Utilizes extensive knowledge of the global and local business functions to research and evaluate new and future technologies that promote the strategic direction of the organization
• Builds Relationships and Influences Key Partnerhips:
  • Develops and communicates compelling, fact-based rationales, that contain strong, logical arguments that build support for ones perspectives and initiatives cross-functionally and helps others to do the same
  • Builds and maintains trusting collaborative relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders which help accomplish key business objectives, and helps others to do the same
  • Delivers messages and presentations to various cross-functional groups to gain support for strategic initiatives and ideas
  • Provides partnership, insight and direction to cross-functional business leaders and stakeholders regarding IT policies, solutions and initiatives
• Leverages Technology Principles, Knowledge and Practices:
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