Business Analyst- Mid Level

Position: Business Analyst Location: New York, NY (2 days onsite) Duration: 6 Month Contract Key Responsibilities: Business Process Analysis & Documentation • Analyze, define, and optimize end-to-end business processes, ensuring clear ownership and accountability across teams. • Develop detailed process maps, workflow diagrams, and operational documentation to standardize business processes and reduce dependency on SMEs. • Collaborate with finance, accounting, and royalty teams to formalize financial business logic, ensuring efficiency and compliance. • Ensure business process alignment with technology and PMO priorities, driving a structured and business-led approach to execution. Requirements Gathering & Solution Development • Establish a structured approach to eliciting business requirements, ensuring input from a broad range of stakeholders. • Define and document functional and technical requirements, ensuring clear traceability from business needs to implementation. • Work cross-functionally to identify and resolve gaps in vendor deliverables, ensuring supplier accountability. • Partner with technology teams to align system design with business needs, ensuring smooth implementation and adoption. Process Optimization & Change Management • Lead process improvement initiatives to streamline operations and optimize financial workflows. • Implement change management best practices, ensuring business users are engaged and trained effectively. • Support user acceptance testing (UAT) and business process training to ensure seamless adoption of new workflows. • Reinforce program governance by driving structured workstreams, ownership clarity, and continuous process enhancements. Preferred Qualifications & Skills: • 5+ years of experience in business process analysis, finance operations, or related fields. • Strong knowledge of finance, royalty management, accounting workflows, and operational process optimization. • Experience working within a PMO or structured program delivery environment. • Proficiency in business process modeling tools (e.g., DrawIO, Visio, Lucidchart) and requirements documentation methodologies. • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to bridge business and technology teams. • 5+ years of experience using Atlassian Jira and Confluence for task tracking and project documentation • Experience with Bibliosuite is a huge plus, particularly in leveraging its capabilities for: • Metadata management and optimization of content workflows. • Publishing workflow automation to streamline end-to-end processes. • Integration with finance and royalty systems for improved financial tracking and reporting. • Collaboration tools that enhance cross-team visibility and efficiency. • Experience in the publishing industry or with a major publishing company is a significant plus, as it provides insight into industry-specific financial processes, content lifecycles, and workflow management. Certifications (Preferred but Not Required) • CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional), PMI-PBA (PMI Professional in Business Analysis), IIBA Certification (ECBA, CCBA), or Agile BA Certification.