Business Analyst III

About the Department 

At Novo Nordisk, our Finance and Operations team is the engine that elevates holistic commercialization of our products. The Finance and Operations team works closely with the business 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. We regulate accounting, uphold workplace safety, manage our supply chain and sampling, support technology, provide commercial operations, insights & analytics, maintain our facilities and assure the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing 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 the opportunity for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to realize your potential?

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, as well as an understanding of the IT organizations systems and capabilities. Provides business process and technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems.

 

Relationships

This position reports to a Senior Product Manager. Works under only general direction. Independently determines and provides business need analysis and process analysis towards providing IT solutions. This position interacts with have frequent interaction internally, cross-organizationally, and with external stakeholders.

 

Essential Functions

Analyses and Fulfulls 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
• Collaborates with business leaders to identify and prioritize projects to ensure the delivery of on time and quality solutions
• 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
• Leverages in-depth knowledge of business functions, business processes and key objectives to develop solutions aligned with business needs.
• Proactively communicates with stakeholders to gain an understanding of their concerns, and ensures they are satisfied and that their business needs are met and challenges them on their assumptions on process and solutions to meet the business goals.
• Utilizes knowledge of the business and industry to make recommendations to future strategies, and participates in the decision-making processes.

 

Lead UAT Activities:

• Coordinate UAT (User Acceptance Testing) activities in ADO
• Develop UAT test plans and test cases in ADO
• Oversee and guide UAT team members.
• Communicate UAT progress and issues to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with business analysts and developers to resolve UAT findings.
• Ensure UAT meets quality standards and business requirements.
• Manage UAT timelines and deliverables.
• Provide UAT sign-off and approval for production implementation.

 

Builds Relationships and Influences Key Stakeholders:

• Builds trusting, collaborative relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, which help accomplish key business objectives
• Clearly communicates to business leaders and stakeholders with fact-based rationale, understanding of business objectives, and based on company processes and principles to present ideas and guidance.
• Delivers messages and presentations in a clear, confident manner.
• Provides counsel to business leaders and stakeholders regarding IT policies, solutions and initiatives.
• Analyzes and determines whether new technology will add value to current business processes.

 

Manages IT Projects:

• Leads in the development and delivery of key project goals, plans, timelines and deliverables using the Novo Nordisk IT project management methodology.
• Recommends the appropriate allocation of test resources needed to complete projects
• Utilizes knowledge of system development lifecycle to assist with the completion and handover