Application Specialist

The Opportunity

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.
Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.
You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.
Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position SummaryResponsible for analysis of complex business workflow issues, understanding business needs. Facilitate communications with several teams across organization and clients to improve business processes. Understands business needs and translate it into technical specifications. Provides support in identifying, evaluating, and testing systems and procedures that meet user requirements. Primary focus will be in US based Medical Research for compliance and ethics.Qualifications

Position Expectations:

• Facilitates communications with product management teams, clients to understand product needs and priorities.
• Elicits business and functional requirements. Prepares requirement documentation as it pertains to new products, tools, or solutions.
• Reviews the as-is and future state business processes
• Recommends and performs issue resolutions that are within the workflow processes
• Learns about a specific business needs rapidly through analysis by using fit/gap analysis, feasibility studies, and business cases
• Ability to learn and expertise in a line of business
• Provides timely inputs to Product teams, Product Committee for features that will add value to our clients and businesses.
• Acts as a mediator between client and Product teams to facilitate business processes efficiently and effectively.
• Coordinates user testing.
• Assist in the development and execution of best practices, techniques, and tools as needed for providing T2 support
• Reviews peer requirements and provides mentorship to other Business Analysts

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, business or a related field from an accredited university or institution or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of experience as a Business Analyst
• Need to be able to multitask and shift positions/issues quickly
• Competent analytical skills and business acumen
• Analytical thinking, Problem solving and quantitative abilities
• Detail oriented
• Committed to a high level of accuracy
• Track record of managing multiple issues/events concurrently
• Excellent organizational, time-management and meeting facilitation skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks
• Ability to adapt quickly to new and changing business and technical environments
• Strong communication and written skills. Ability to communicate with a wide range of audiences (technical and non-technical, staff and managerial) through direct/web technologies

(e.g., one-on-one, small group, in person, conference calls and via e-mail)

• Knowledge of key concepts and processes within the Software Development Life Cycle as well as process and workflow management a plus
• Knowledge of technology networks, database, communications, internet, system interfaces, data integration, and operating systems a plus, but not required
• Experience with an ERP such as Workday, Workday HCM or Salesforce a plus.

Ability to understand programming logic a plus but does not need to be a programmer C++,HTML,SQL,Python,ASP.net.

Posting CategoryEducationOpportunity TypeRegularCountryIndia