Business Analyst PentaLabbs

GRUP PENTALOG

22-08-2011 | EXPIRA LA 21-09-2011

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RESPONSABILITATI

Your role inside our team:
In the context of expanding our IT research and development activity, we are searching for a Business Analyst who will be an important asset in our innovation laboratory – PentaLabbs (http://www.pentalabbs.com/) a good-experienced person with a genuine curiosity and an open minded attitude towards what is new in this field.

As a Business Analyst, your mission will be to link the business needs and the IT constraints in order to organize the activity in a fluent, efficient and transparent way.
You will be entrusted with activities that can sustain the core mission of our department: constant innovation at all levels. Your main focus in this job will be on different activities, such as:
- Formulate requirements using all kind of meetings (interviews, requirements workshops), document analysis, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts.
- Communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze their business needs and functional requirements.
- Work independently with users to define concepts and under the direction of project managers.
- Act as a real connector between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow.
- Document and organize the requirements into functional specifications according to standard templates, using natural language, and communicate them to the IT development team.
- Discuss with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
- Closely collaborating with the entire IT team and assist them in reviews of a deliverable, completing test documentation and defining the implementation plan.
- Promote the needed changes when necessary by discussing the benefits with both business & IT teams.
- Identify risks, issues and solutions in order to successfully realize an application development project.
- Ensure that the output quality standards are being maintained; ensure traceability between business requirements and final solutions.


CERINTE

Why join us?
PentaLabbs offers a very dynamic, multicultural working environment at the crossroads of engineering and entrepreneurship inside a highly innovative department (associated with “wow! factor”); you will be collaborating with experienced and creative experts, on projects involving international interactions in various business sectors; you will be offered possibilities of promotion and development of a career plan.
If you enjoy transforming good ideas in real valuable results and if you feel that success is a good proof of an excellent teamwork, we invite you to analyze this collaboration opportunity inside PentaLabbs.

- You are a very structured person with an above average ability to quickly understand complex business situations and translate them into functional requirements.
- You have already gathered experience in this type of activities and you are interested to get involved in innovating projects, in direct contact with top international clients.
- You are a self-driven, communicative, analytical and motivated person willing to join an innovation structure.
- You appreciate a highly challenging environment with relevant volume and performance growth, where you can make good use of your French and/or English knowledge.
- You show an interest for topics like: social networking, mobile apps.
If you consider that the above description fits your profile, here are some more details that will be interesting for you.

Our requirements:
In order to be considered for the position of Business Analyst, the following requirements are a must-have:
- Previous experience as a business analyst;
- Strong analytical and product management skills;
- A thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements;
- Excellent organization and teamwork;
- Strong attention to detail and a positive attitude required;
- Adventurous spirit willing to be involved in leveraging high-potential start-ups;
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science / Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics or a related technical field required;
- A general business background;
- Fluency in French and English.

We will also value:
- Ability to persuade & motivate;
- Excellent presentation skills;
- Strong teamwork skills;
- Self-management (able to organize and drive the specific activities);
- A good combination of rigor, creativity and communication skills;
- A previous experience of working in a multicultural environment;
- The ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
- Knowledge of social networks functionality (Facebook, LinkedIn, Viadeo, Xing);
- Passion for mobile-related topics (applications for mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, PDAs etc.);
- Experience with Agile – SCRUM methodology.


BENEFICII OFERITE

- Work with talented people in a multicultural environment
- Expand your horizons
- Possibility to build a career
- Remuneration package including incentives, bonuses, health insurance, etc.


DESCRIEREA FIRMEI

Grupul Pentalog este un lider in servicii si consultanta IT in Romania si Republica Moldova. Grupul nostru beneficiaza de stabilitate si experienta internationala, precum si de parteneri de incredere, iar domeniile de competenta cuprind informatica de gestiune si cea industriala(R&D).

Pentalog este implicat in numeroase proiecte internationale si locale, iar clientii nostri sunt atat mari grupuri (Leroy Somer, CapGemini, Hitachi, Lexmark, Lowendal, Metro , Syngenta, Parrot, Vodafone, Elite, etc), cat si companii start-up, inovatoare (Coronis, CityVox, Dmailer, Meilleur Mobile, etc). Pentru proiectele pe care le realizam folosim de obicei cele mai noi tehnologii.

Pentalog dispune de agentii in urmatoarele tari: Romania (Bucuresti,
Brasov, Iasi), Republica Moldova (Chisinau), Franta (Orleans, Bordeaux, Paris) si Germania (Frankfurt). 80% din cifra de afaceri a agentiei din Bucuresti este realizata pentru mari clienti locali, pentru care suntem implicati in proiecte de anvergura.

Grupul Pentalog a realizat in 2007 o crestere interna de 67% si o cifra de afaceri de 5,5M?. La inceputul anului 2008, echipa Pentalog numara deja 200 de persoane.

Datorita acestor indicatori pozitivi, preconizam pentru 2008 crearea a numeroase noi posturi in toate agentiile noastre din Romania si Republica Moldova, o crestere de 40% din efectivul actual.
In contextul unei piete a muncii dificile, Pepiniera Pentalog este un program care pe de o parte formeaza tineri programatori iar pe de alta parte organizeaza traininguri pentru angajati.

Pentalog realizeaza in permanenta benchmarkuri in vederea deschiderii de noi agentii. Asadar, va propunem sa va alaturati unei echipe in plina crestere si unei companii care ofera mediul tehnologic, social si financiar necesar construirii unei cariere.