Lead Business Analyst

Lead Business Analyst - Contract

India, Remote

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What You Will Be Doing:

Core BA Responsibilities

• Contribute to and drive continuous process improvement initiatives to meet evolving business needs of the client's procurement function
• Work closely with multiple stakeholders - procurement leaders, category managers, finance controllers, IT, and data owners - to gather, analyze, and define current business processes as well as requirements
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications for the Power BI dashboard, including data model expectations, calculation logic, visualizations, and user interactions
• Support the Project Manager in delivering the project plan on time and on budget, including scope management, effort estimation input, and milestone tracking
• Ensure requirements issues are tracked, reported, and resolved in a timely manner via the project's RAID Log and Decision Log
• Effectively communicate plan, status, risks, and issues to stakeholders in a precise and timely manner across governance forums
• Support users' participation in deployments and implementation activities, including UAT coordination, training material preparation, and hypercare support

What We’re Looking For:

Education:

Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Business Administration, Information Systems, Supply Chain Management, or Finance also considered)

Experience & Skills:

• Prior experience as an IT Business Analyst - minimum 5+ years, with at least 1 years in a lead
• Proven track record of requirements elicitation, delivering BRDs, functional specifications, and data mapping documents for BI dashboard projects
• Fluent command of written and spoken English and Japanese
• Adept at working with multiple stakeholders to drive desired outcomes across crossfunctional and crosscultural teams
• Direct experience with Power BI projects - requirements definition, dashboard page design, data model review, and UAT facilitation
• Strong problemsolving, prioritization, and organizational skills

Technical Knowledge:

• Power BI - strong understanding of data modeling (star schema), DAX measures, RLS, incremental refresh, and report design best practices
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms (Azure) and data flow from source systems into BI layers
• Understanding of ETL/ELT processes and data warehousing concepts

Nice to have:

• Experience with spend analysis, spend classification/categorization, and procurement analytics domains
• Experience working with ERP / P2P procurement data (SAP MM, SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle Procurement, or similar)
• Understanding of procurement data structures: purchase orders, invoices, contracts, goods receipts, supplier master data, and material/service categorization
• Familiarity with spend classification frameworks: UNSPSC, eClass, custom category taxonomies