IT Portfolio Analyst
Location: Hybrid; Chicago
Type: Full Time/Perm
Contact: Bri at bleifker@forbestc.com
Note: Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor or transfer visas at this time.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand and prioritize their needs, creating a roadmap of projects for their assigned area
- Monitor and perform work related to incoming requests from business stakeholders for changes, updates, and other technical issues
- Seek input of user experience and document current procedures and processes to determine potential improvements to their assigned products
- Stay abreast of best practices being done at other firms and technology developments that may affect the areas
- Analyze and consolidate all perspectives on the project – business needs, requirements, user experience, security, training, risk, time, cost, technology architecture, procurement/vendor management, and operational considerations
- Manage the lifecycle of their assigned products, from inception to implementation, throughout production until retirement / upgrade
- Gather business requirements from project stakeholders to further define the goals and objectives
- Drives projects and business teams toward achieving intended business results within a specified time and budget
- Perform risk analyses to identify and resolve critical path issues
- Prepare materials for briefings and presentations to large size groups of key decision makers at the executive level
Required Skills:
- Experience as a business analyst or project manager with generally at least two years’ experience
- Experience communicating with stakeholders to gather requirements and communicating them to developers/vendors and/or IT
- Experience with Accounting or Finance applications, or related business areas
- Experience with database administration or relational databases and tables
- Experience with creating and maintaining Functional and Technical Specification documents, wireframe mockups/diagrams, test cases/plans, and defect/bug fix management
- Experience in current technology trends
- Jira, Service Now, and Software Development Life Cycle knowledge
- Law firm experience
Contact:
Bri Leifker
Recruiting Consultant
Forbes Technical Consulting LLC | 401 N. Franklin |Suite 3S | Chicago, IL
Bleifker@forbestc.com | 708.717.8648
To apply for this job email your details to mnugent@forbestc.com