IT Business Analyst
Port Washington, NY

Job Description

Learn and work on meaningful initiatives with some of the best and brightest in the market research industry. The NPD Group provides the world's most successful brands with leading market research, combining consumer and retail point-of-sale data with analytic solutions to interpret today's market trends while anticipating tomorrow's. In addition, we offer a career filled with innovation and growth to the forward-thinking problem solvers who join our team.

Position Overview

You're a passionate, dynamic, and highly motivated individual who's looking for an opportunity to have an impact on some of the most well-known companies in the world. If you enjoy working with database technologies and large data volume processing to help business solutions, are looking for challenges and career growth, this job is for you.

This position will be part of our dynamic and fast paced development team. You will be responsible for developing, enhancing and maintaining the core data processing platform in the company.

Overall Responsibilities:

* Gather business requirements and perform data and system analysis to translate business requirements into development specifications
* Assist in documenting the implementation and devising QA and UAT test plans for new system functionality.
* Support launching new businesses using existing processing and deliverable tools
* Assess and implement sound data quality and data validation processes for the NPD data processing platform.
* Have a good understanding of the NPD Systems and tools in order to provide timely and accurate support to resolve issues with system users and product/business people as they merge.
* Act as liaison amongst operation users, product managers, project managers, and developers in the analysis, design, configuration, testing, acceptance, adoptions, and maintenance of our core data processing platform.
* Collaborate with other IT/Ops departments throughout the development process to coordinate project activities, resources and timing.
* Provide direction to technical staff on business requirements, project priorities and data related questions.

Required Skills or Experience

* 3+ years experience as a Business/Systems/Data Analyst
* Excellent written and oral communication skills
* Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical staff to convey complex ideas
* Ability to translate business requirements into development specifications
* Proficient in database SQL; Knowledge of technical system analysis highly desirable
* Ability of reading data models with good understanding of basic database concepts
* Sharp analytical skills, curiosity to learn
* Working knowledge of SAS or R and Data Management is a plus
* Some programming or prototyping experience
* Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Agile Process
* Must understand data and ability to solve problems
* Must be detail oriented and a team player

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor or above degree in computer science, math, statistics or related field

MBA a plus.

Communication

The ideal candidate must be able to communicate effectively with internal client groups in a concise and polished manner. Most importantly, the candidate must demonstrate the ability to listen and appropriately match the needs with NPD's products and services, or be willing to direct to the best solution.

Relationships

The ideal candidate must be comfortable and effective when talking with a broad range of decision influencers and decision makers within the organization. The candidate will be able to effectively understand and build relationships throughout the organization.

Discipline

The ideal candidate will be competent in managing their time and activities and must embrace our proven opportunity and customer management processes and systems. Candidates must possess a "can-do" perspective in their professional attitude. They will be detail oriented and demonstrate a strong work ethic. They will be sticklers for accuracy in their own work as well as their colleagues. They will be ready to back up their assertions with facts.

The NPD Group, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.