EY Business Analyst - Staff Consulting Location OPEN 

United States, Illinois, Chicago 

232694821

Technology – Technology Strategy – Technology Strategy – Staff

Join our Technology team as a Staff member in Technology Strategy, where you'll have the chance to work on transformative projects that align with our organization's strategic objectives. You'll be responsible for managing timelines, costs, and quality to provide assurance to leadership. By participating in client working sessions and supporting sales opportunities, you'll contribute to our mission of delivering exceptional client service.

Your key responsibilities

In this role, you'll be at the forefront of delivering solutions that drive our business forward. You'll spend your time:

• Defining and executing deliverables.
• Engaging in significant interactions with project teams and clients to define project deliverables.
• Supporting opportunities for additional services and providing support for RFP responses.
• Actively participating in client working sessions.
• Submitting data for engagement economics and managing delivery of technology transformation projects.

Skills and attributes for success

To excel in this role, you'll need a combination of technical knowledge and soft skills. Here are some of the key attributes we're looking for:

• Ability to manage project timelines, costs, and quality effectively.
• Experience in leading both technical and non-technical project teams.
• Specialized knowledge in project and program delivery methods, including Agile and Waterfall.
• Proven ability to propose solutions to technical constraints and anticipate system bottlenecks.
• Commitment to contributing to the delivery of processes, solutions, and/or projects.
• Assist in developing and executing the team’s short-term and long-term strategies
• Identify operational bottlenecks and recommend process improvements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and document efficient workflows
• Support strategic initiatives from concept to execution
• Track project milestones, timelines and risks, ensuring adherence to deadlines
• Create project documentation and reports to communicate progress and outcomes to stakeholders
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis to address emerging business questions or challenges
• Supporting leadership in making informed decisions by providing relevant insights and analysis
• Flexibility to navigate through multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity and rapid change

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor’s degree
• 0-2 years of relevant experience
• Experience in managing the delivery of technology transformation projects.
• Expertise in leading project teams in the development and implementation of technology solutions.
• Coaching skills to guide others on project delivery methods and enabling technologies.
• Analytical skills to propose solutions and anticipate challenges in the system development cycle.
• Accountability for delivering work and meeting targets that impact the immediate team.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Ability to apply discretion using general guidelines to interpret unusual circumstances.
• Experience working on problems of moderate to diverse scope where analysis of data is required.
• Judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.