
Description
As the Business Analyst, Technology Investment, you will be helping the City of Edmonton continue to take steps to establish and sustain a City-wide approach to strategically manage technology investments. This approach represents a marked shift of focus from a low-level, transactional view, to strategically thinking and prioritizing investments, partnerships and collaborations.
You will be responsible for identifying and implementing strategic recommendations, solutions and measures to solve challenges and maintain the efficiency and effectiveness of the section and Branch. You will use your expert communication skills to effectively promote and clarify objectives and processes involved within governance and planning, technology investment framework, policies, standards, processes, risk management and quality assurance. The financial requirements for Technological Investment will be yours to elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify and manage. You will ultimately be the conduit between the business and the client teams.
What will you do?
- Lead the development of processes, forms, websites, etc., for the Technology Investment Framework
- Participate in the development of investment management policies, practices and frameworks
- Coordinate the review of policies, standards, frameworks, and procedures and recognize the potential risks to changes being proposed
- Ensure budgets are aligned and support strategic City-wide goals, objectives and business needs
- Conduct regular investment management updates and validation
- Develop and generate key performance indicator reports in conjunction with recommended changes
- Lead the development and business value analysis of strategic initiatives and monitor the investment management life cycle
- Facilitate discussions with various interest groups of different perspectives and negotiate an integrated and mutually agreed solution
- Conduct requirement-gathering sessions using various business analysis techniques and tools
- Document all business, user and functional requirements, as well as workflows, processes, designs, prototypes and any artifacts in adhering to standard methodology; effectively communicate these to stakeholders
- Collaborate with business and technical teams to verify business requirements
- Plan, conduct and implement internal and external environmental analysis
- Complete and document gap analyses
- Develop high level financial models to provide a more accurate representation of the total cost of ownership of a project or initiative
- Contribute to risk management log and ensure risk management discipline is practiced
- Other duties as required
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