Contracts Pricing Business Analyst

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Contracts Pricing & Business System Analyst

General Purpose

Supports North American Contracts team with various tools and analyses of relevant pricing data, that will lead to greater understanding of the impact of pricing on potential sales volume, margin, and market share. Acts as the primary contact between the business and IT development teams in terms of communicating requirements for functionality and enhancements to the Contracts pricing system and other related applications and databases.

Essential Functions

• Provide standardized reporting and ad hoc analyses in order to interpret pricing related data, identify critical pricing issues, and periodically provide business reviews for Contracts leadership and others on key pricing, discount, cost, and margin information relevant to defined business objectives and performance standards.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of North American Contracts pricing system and user security structure in order to assist with business system administration and to maintain up-to-date business system documentation.
• Work with Contracts leadership and other department team members to identify enhancement options and make recommendations to improve analytical models, reporting solutions, and/or system functionality for prioritized business objectives. Articulate needs and changes into effective business requirement statements for technical design and development.
• Working within IT’s Change Management tool (JIRA) to ensure system change requests are defined accurately for related development teams to progress efficiently.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, create test plans, and perform first pass testing of all Contracts’ technology development requests.
• Research and raise change requests for process incidents raised by the business and system support teams as it relates to Contracts pricing policies and procedures, order “fallouts”, and system integration points.
• Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Computer Science or relevant academic discipline.
• Three to five years of business experience with analytical and reporting experience, or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Demonstrated high level of written, verbal, and interpersonal skills to communicate information, ideas, and processes clearly and at a level appropriate to an audience.
• Intermediate to advanced math and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency with common business data query and reporting tools, such as Business Objects and Excel.
• Exposure to project management and IT agile software development principles a plus.

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