Business Analyst (LTS)

Client - Cisco Experience - 5+Years Primary Job Responsibilities: Manage customer involvement for tool and legal platform design, testing, and program roll-out. Conduct business process analysis, scope assessments, and preliminary cost/benefits/gap analyses for business initiatives. Highly experienced in identifying policy violations, analyzing, and proposing risk mitigating design solutions. Ability to translate work processes into precise business requirements, epics, and user stories. Successfully plan, implement, test, and enable new features or enhancements for new or existing applications. Serve as a liaison between the business, cross-functional teams, and IT to provide technical and business solutions that meet user needs. Conduct training and knowledge transfer sessions to worldwide business teams. Ability to efficiently handle work that crosses across inter-related business teams and tools. Ability to access data from repositories using SQL queries to analyze large datasets and determine trends, opportunities, alarming issues, and hidden patterns. Manage customer involvement for tool and legal platform design, testing, and program roll-out. Conduct business process analysis, scope assessments, and preliminary cost/benefits/gap analyses for business initiatives. Highly experienced in identifying policy violations, analyzing, and proposing risk mitigating design solutions. Ability to translate work processes into precise business requirements, epics, and user stories. Successfully plan, implement, test, and enable new features or enhancements for new or existing applications. Serve as a liaison between the business, cross-functional teams, and IT to provide technical and business solutions that meet user needs. Conduct training and knowledge transfer sessions to worldwide business teams. Ability to efficiently handle work that crosses across inter-related business teams and tools. Ability to access data from repositories using SQL queries to analyze large datasets and determine trends, opportunities, alarming issues, and hidden patterns. General expectations for this role: Understand contracting tools and contract repositories Have awareness of business needs and practical application for business needs Build, depict, and optimize contract process flows for different levels of complexities Respond to requests; gathers necessary information to resolve cases Delivers quality work product on assigned tasks; aids in troubleshooting and drives creative solutions; implements solutions and/or fixes Desired Skills and Characteristics: Outstanding ability to discuss complex issues in a clear and simple manner both in writing and orally; Focused attention to detail and ability to work independently; Strong organizational and social skills and desire to make legal processes more efficient; Excellent business judgment, advocating for acceptable legal risk to enable business outcomes; Customer and client-centric approach, demonstrating respect and a positive attitude under all circumstances; Strong leadership skills, wanting to chip in to a team culture focused on shared success Critical skills include problem solving, ability to envision the implications of decisions Process and systems background Knowledge and experience in agile project methodology Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field 5+ years proven experience in related field Experience with configuring and updating custom objects, fields, conditional logic, user access permission, validation rules, workflows, and approvals Knowledge of end-to-end legal contracting processes including contract generation, contract negotiations, and contract repositories Experience in contract lifecycle management tools such as Ariba, Conga, Ironclad, Apttus, Icertis, or others