Business Specialist Job Description
Business Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
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Business Specialist Qualifications
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Business Specialist Examples
Business Specialist Job Description
- Prepare and processes reimbursement documentation for speakers, staff, faculty, consultants, and students
- Represent the college/department and serve on various department and university committees
- Interact and maintain liaison with students, faculty, staff, and outside/community agencies
- Generating reports in a timely and accurate manner and data manipulation within an assigned business unit
- Working with data and analyzing it to provide a clear picture to both the sales team and the leadership
- Efficiently supporting a team of sales associates who represent our prestigious clients
- Seeks business solutions to respond to and correct metrics, establish quality improvement, efficiency, and effectiveness
- Investigate production systems/applications issues, trouble shoot and provide with timely solutions working in cooperation with IT support
- Perform systems and products configuration and set up
- Elicit and translate customer product requirements into comprehensive, complete and accurate business, functional and non-functional requirements
- Must have excellent decision making skills with a knowledge of requirements analysis
- High competency level with use of desktop tools such as SQL, Microsoft Office suite, specifically EXCEL and POWERPOINT
- Two years experience in a call center that uses automated tracking tools, Required
- Be familiar with the business planning process to ensure that resource plans provide a view of the office space requirements well in advance of the actual physical requirements to ensure space availability/planning
- Be the TO lead for any facilities initiatives
- Maintain a record of all floor plans and the groups that occupy each floor
Business Specialist Job Description
- Lead self-inspections to confirm current compliance status and work with management to determine a mitigation strategy for instances of non-compliance
- Develops and fosters business relationships with government agencies, customers and other security officers
- Perform system configuration, as needed, to enable the required functions
- Interact with internal business and external vendors as required
- Administer and synthesize user support documentation, provide training and coaching to end users
- Strategize communication venues, draft and distribute pertinent information through regular distribution channels (website messaging, conference calls/presentations, flyers, memos, newsletters, meetings)
- Complete a variety of project assignments within structured deadlines (business case, budget, requirements gathering, test plan creation, functional testing)
- Utilizing internal and external data sources, research account size, ownership structure, affiliations, class of trade and other attributes to prepare opportunity lists for sales and account executives
- Communicate new sales opportunities to a variety of audiences through spreadsheet documents, presentations, meeting participation and one-on-one conversations
- Execute a wide range of both quantitative and qualitative analyses (e.g., evaluation of historical customer purchases to identify contract opportunities, targets for new and/or existing contracts, sales performance)
- Highly proficient with MS Office suite with an emphasis on Excel (Formulas, Macros, Conditional Formatting, Pivot Tables)
- Exceptional degree of ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness
- Demonstrated breadth and depth of experience to influence highly independent and entrepreneurial employees Senior Managers within Wealth to adopt, leverage and perfect use of technologies supporting the client experience
- Demonstrated ability to successfully lead projects and/or initiatives impacting the client experience
- Understanding of regulatory requirements associated with portfolio/asset management and discretionary management across various Wealth Management channels
- Detailed experience with Wealth Management Technologies a requirement
Business Specialist Job Description
- Perform process reviews and identify improvement opportunities
- Produce problem statements, project charters, process maps, gap analyses, high-level requirements
- Develop queries, perform data analysis and identify trends
- Conduct cost-benefit analysis and proof-of-concept
- Perform benchmarking and best practices review
- Present recommendations supported by detailed analysis to business partners
- Provide implementation support by defining an implementation plan, supporting the IT team for high-level system requirements gathering, and interfacing with the business sponsors through roll-out
- Contribute to the intellectual capital development of the BTS group
- Assists Chair with faculty reappointments and promotion processes
- Provide reports on quarterly/yearly basis
- Excellent English communications skills - must be able to communicate effectively orally and in writing (at least B2 level according to internal assessment)
- Strategic thinker, strong interpersonal and analytical skills, problem-solving orientated
- Understands the business and business financial flow
- Ability to translate management strategic decisions and directions in actions and drive the implementation of this
- Ability to identify, develop, monitor and drive to completion of strategic plans
- Ability to identify room for improvements within all business areas, develop and drive them to completion
Business Specialist Job Description
- To support the implementation of product, business, regulatory and industry change
- To collate and prepare reporting on behalf of the OP&R Team
- To support the UKFS Teams in delivering a controlled operating model
- Coordinates and reviews 20+ FD GIE/Semester program budgets in collaboration with two International Coordinators
- Oversees communication with the Director of Study Abroad and College Deans and Directors to facilitate the approval of assigned program budgets
- Assists with the development and approval of vendor contracts
- Monitors FD GIE/Semester accounting activity, maintains and adjusts multiple spreadsheets and journals in preparation for monthly reconciliation of Advantage
- Controls, reviews, authorizes and updates expenditures (including P-card purchases as Cardholder) and revenues for assigned program budgets
- Within the Concur syster, oversees travel for all GIE/Semester faculty directed programs for 40+ travelers (faculty and support staff) which includes preparing and reconciling all travel claims in collaboration with travelers and their International Coordinators
- Reviews, verifies for accuracy, and acts on requests from staff which require that charges be added, reversed or modified on student accounts due to withdrawals, scholarships
- Ability to communicate and build consensus
- Ability to develop new approaches to complex projects
- Mastery in Excel and SQL
- CROESUS
- ThomsonOne
- Fixed Income Platform
Business Specialist Job Description
- Performs back up for all activities associated with Department Time Administrator to ensure accurate and timely recording of exceptions and positive time for all hourly employees
- Prepares departmental financial and administrative reports as needed
- Coordinates and assumes other duties or special projects as assigned or directed
- Supporting sales organization with quality analysis
- Project management for developing new functionalities into the PMC, working with an external consultant
- Training the selling organization on the PMC/ and the processes supported
- Customer data maintenance – coordination with regions when changes needs to be implemented
- Check/update and maintain the account managers and selling organization changes
- Running detailed sales analysis on demand (sales and marketing)
- STI quarterly track, global, regional and segment/ country
- Relevant experience in an analytical or commercial discipline
- Strong knowledge of ETL development and design
- Strong knowledge of SQL, TERADATA and Oracle knowledge is an asset
- Experience with SAS programming language and SAS Data Integration Studio is an asset
- In-depth knowledge of Data Marts, Warehousing and Business Intelligence concepts
- Emphasis on development of high quality code focused on efficiency and the elimination of data integrity or quality issues