Job Title:                   Project Business analysis, Osaka

Industry:                    Information Technology

Location:                    Japan

Salary:                        Competitive Salary Package + Benefits

Business analysis experience

• Independently Work with client’s cross functional team for business requirements gathering, analysis and solution design (Must Have)
• Review user business process and use cases, create workflows and functional design during SDLC (Must Have)
• Provide direction and inputs to the solution development team during presales as well as SDLC processes. (Must Have)
• Provide guidance and direction to the delivery team during the software development. This could be in terms of functionality, system integrations, user interface, user experience, best-in-class practices, KPIs, review demos etc. (Must Have)
• Work with the customer (business users) in preparing User acceptance test cases and assist in the UAT. (Must Have)

Industry Expertise

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) with a mix of expertise in IT Systems/Tools/Technologies as well as Business Analysis/Consulting in manufacturing after-market domain with specific focus on warranty management and related processes
• Understand clients ‘As-is’ process, legacy systems architecture, and functionality to come with the solution design and mapping of future system and processes

Overall Experience

• 10 to 12 years’ of overall work experience, out of which
  • 8+ years in IT Solutions/Services industry in Business Analysis area
  • A good understanding of SDLC
  • Industry consulting experience a plus
• Experience in enterprise custom applications for Manufacturing industries (Auto, Farm equipment, Construction equipment, Industrial/ Heavy/ Mining Equipment etc.) and good knowledge of following domain areas –
  • Warranty Management
  • After sales and Service markets
  • Reverse Logistics
• Experience in handling projects with Onsite Discovery / Requirements Gathering, Analysis and Functional Design
• Good understanding of Agile and iterative approaches for software development
• Willingness to learn and quickly ramp-up for new business models in post-sales for different industry segments
• An MBA with specialization in operations/ logistics/ supply chain preferred (but not mandatory)
• Fluency in communicating in Japanese language is a Must
• Bilingual in Japanese and English