Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.com Primary Skills: media experience & erp knowledge
Description:

Main Purpose of the Role The Business Analyst and PMO has a central role in the US Finance systems project, 

bringing domain knowledge and analysis skills, to document and understand current 

business processes and assist in defining the to be processes, managing the project 

management office, successful selection and implementation of finance and production 

accounting systems 

Key Responsibilities The Business Analyst and PMO should be an experienced practitioner and has strong 

Business Analysis skills and project management skills. This role requires a good 

understanding of media production businesses and finance processes. The key 

responsibilities of the role are and not limited to

 Provide high quality business analysis services to support the definition, delivery 

and implementation of solutions.

 Work with any third party supplier to ensure that their deliverables meet ITV 

expectations, are to fit for purpose and of acceptable quality and standard.

 Work with Business and Technology leads to ensure solutions proposed are of 

the highest quality and meet ITV technical standard.

 Effectively manage relationships with Senior ITV Staff. 

 Document AS IS processes

 Assist in market research, definition of product evaluation criteria and product 

selection process

 Assist in defining common process model, COA analysis and Payroll Analysis.

 Identity use cases for product evaluation

 Working with the rest of the project team to identify Risks & Issues and be able 

to define mitigation actions.

 Attend meetings as required and to represent ITV technology to the highest 

standards.

 Assist in creating, sequencing and maintaining the project plan

 Manage to the plan - follow up on outstanding actions/activities

 Collate project status reports (including RAID logs) on a weekly basis and minute 

the weekly project management meeting

 Have good stakeholder engagement/management skills and be able to co-

ordinate project resources (including senior stakeholders)

 Assist in the co-ordination of the software vendors and system demonstrations 

Unusual Occasional travel to other ITV locations in USA depending upon the business need.

Qualifications/Professional 

Certificates required: 

Abilities and Characteristics 

required: 

 Have a good understanding of Media production business processes and IT 

systems.

 Certified Business Analyst

 Certified Prince2/PMP professional

 Educated to degree level.

 Knowledge of US payroll legislations desirable. 

 Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into 

component parts explore and evaluate them systematically.

 Planning and organising - able to think ahead in order to establish an efficient and 

appropriate course of action for self and others.

 Communication - able to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of 

styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the 

information.

 Influencing and persuading - able to present sound and well reasoned arguments to 

convince others. Demonstrates empathy towards business users and stakeholders.

 Building and managing relationships - able to build strong relationships with peer level 

and senior business stakeholders.

 Leadership and team working - able to build and maintain effective working 

relationships with a range of people. Works co-operatively with others to be part of a 

team.

 Flexibility - adapts and works effectively with a variety of situations, individuals or 

groups. Able to understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives on an 

issue and to adapt an approach as the requirements of a situation change. 

 Creative Thinking - able to transform creative ideas into practical reality.

 Fast learning - able to grasp new concepts and develop a good understanding of new 

business domains quickly.

 Tenacity - able to overcome obstacles and push self to achieve delivery in spite of 

challenging circumstances 

Workk Experience Required: 

 Knowledge of ERP and Production accounting systems in media production businesses.

 Good understanding and experience of business analysis skills, techniques, and 

practices 

 Awareness of business strategy formation, business capability assessment and value 

management

 Experience in consultancy disciplines including business process analysis, requirements 

definition and vendor evaluations

 Experience in eliciting requirements from business stakeholders and creating functional 

/ technical requirement specifications.

 Experience communicating concepts and ideas to stakeholders at all levels within

organisations, including oral and written presentations, proposals, specifications, and 

reports

 Some understanding of the industry partners, competitors and technologies 

 Works on own initiative with minimal supervision, focused on one project at a time

 Experience managing projects/PMO.

 Experienced in developing and managing project plans