Business Analyst - Project Management Office (PMO)

Churchill Downs Incorporated

Louisville, KY

Expired: April 30, 2024 Applications are no longer accepted.

Full-Time

Job Description

Company Info

SUMMARY

The Business Analyst - Project Management Office (PMO), as a member of the CDI Corporate IT Project Management Team, provides guidance and consultation to key stakeholders to help improve their business needs and processes. The Business Analyst - PMO will perform tasks including but not limited to; elicit, analyze, specify, and validate data; interviewing stakeholders; gather and compile business requirements to understand the technological solutions the business needs; present findings to business leaders. The Business Analyst - PMO will play a pivotal role in ensuring IT's understanding of business requirements and help the business make good technical decisions.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

Collaborate with project requestors and sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish business and technical requirements.
Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or leveraging these processes.
Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, and feasibility.
Develop and utilize standard templates to write requirements specifications accurately and concisely.
Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders.
Other duties as assigned.
Embraces the opportunity to work with a diverse variety of people from different cultures and backgrounds.

REGULATORY

Ability to obtain racing and/or gaming licenses as required in any jurisdiction where CDI operates. The Gaming industry is highly regulated and as such demands an extensive background check to obtain a license.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology or equivalent experience.
Three to five years' related work experience required.
Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development.
Highly self-motivated and directed.
Exceptional presentation, collaboration, and communication skills.
Ability to negotiate and influence the decision-making process without direct authority.
Superb recordkeeping, documentation, time management and organizational skills.
Experience in business process modeling and vendor relationship management.
Strong technical skills including data analysis and project cost estimation.
Adequate understanding of Waterfall Methodology.
Highly adaptable to rapid change.
Exceptional critical thinking skills.
ITIL Foundation Certification preferred.
CBAP or PMI-PBA Certification preferred.
Lean/Six Sigma Certification(s) preferred.
Experience with Value Stream Mapping preferred.
Experience with ERP Business Process Mapping preferred.