The Assistant Business Analyst is expected to deliver new insight and lasting business value by leveraging the many systems, analytics and business opportunities offered by cutting edge technology. The incumbent contributes to end-to-end integration and proactively manages updates from a business transformation perspective, utilizing skills and knowledge of the relevant area.
The incumbent contributes to client-facing design sessions and related change management for the on-going renovation of work practices, their streamlining and simplification; to do so, liaises with all relevant stakeholders to document procedures, brings awareness of procedure changes, and supports process reconfiguration to help transform the Organization from a largely transactional model to a strategic business partner for field operations and senior management.
S/he will be working closely with all relevant stakeholders to enhance the use of updating technology within the Area of Responsibility (AoR).
Duties
- Recommend functional and technical solutions for new or amended technologic services, procedures or systems to meet the defined business use cases.
- Support end-to-end integration of business processes across systems within the AoR.
- Support continuous systems' support through UNHCR's governance model, including managed service providers.
- Provide support for quality assurance of delivered work from a functional perspective (Functional testing, Integration testing, Business Process testing and User Acceptance Testing), managing Sandbox and Production environments in accordance with UNHCR's governance model.
- Contribute to building strong business relationship with all stakeholders with respect to applications within the AoR.
- Conduct business analysis and make recommendations on how systems and analytics can be used to improve its value as a strategic partner for field operations and senior management.
- Support the coordination of business analysis and implementation of configuration proposals for systems within the AoR that minimize complexity, simplify processes and streamlines management procedures. - Propose solution on complex system design issues, including how system configuration and use of analytics can help achieve targets and key performance indicators and benchmarks, etc.
- Contribute to enhanced analytics (AI, Machine Learning, etc.), and reports to UNHCR senior management, e.g. on key business driver insights and performance indicators.
- Recommend and analyse benchmarks within the AoR with those of comparable humanitarian organizations.
- Interface with the relevant counterparts and business process owners to prepare and test regular updates to the system within the AoR, including monitoring that all licensed capabilities are fully applied at all times.
- Build capacity for relevant business process owners to be aware of and prepared to use new or updated system capabilities.
- Build capacity, in liaison with GLDC, for relevant business process owners to develop and publish timely end-user training materials, e.g. short videos, for all future system updates and business innovation initiatives within the AoR.
- Support relevant system testing, liaise with all levels of system support.
- Prepare and develop user-friendly and cost-efficient technologic tools and business requirements within the AoR; document business requirements and later update related operating procedures and/or training materials.
- Provide advice on basic security features, system roles and responsibilities as well as audit reports.
- Conduct report writing and report maintenance, set up actionable dashboards to meet the requirements of (regional) partners and their clients.
- Negotiate business requirements with stakeholders.
- Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
- Perform other related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications
Years of Experience / Degree Level
For P1/NOA - 1 year relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or no experience with Graduate degree; or no experience with Doctorate degree.
Field(s) of Education
International Relations; Information Technology; Business Administration; Economics; Social Science; or other relevant field.
Certificates and/or Licenses
Business Analysis
Relevant Job Experience
Essential Business analysis or project management experience is required in international organizations, public or private sectors. Involvement in systems integration, implementation and related management and organizational change management initiatives in an international or multinational environment, with specific ERP or similar complex system management experience in at least one recent deployment project, preferably within the UN system or international public organization. Good knowledge of procedures/processes and exposure to provision of support services in an international organization, preferably specific to configuration and maintenance in a UN or international public organization. Involvement in the analysis, design development and testing of system configurations. Capacity to communicate complex technical issues in layman's terms. Good knowledge of the UN rules/procedures and processes. Experience in learning/training activities.
Desirable
Extensive knowledge of ERP or other complex business systems, including formal training or certification.
BENEFITS:
Annual leave:
UNHCR staff members holding a fixed-term appointment will accrue annual leave at the rate of 2.5 working days for each full calendar months of service (i.e. 30 working days per year).
Pension system:
Staff members holding a fixed-term appointment will become participants in the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF).
Health insurance plan:
locally recruited staff members in Budapest will be enrolled in the Medical Insurance Plan (MIP). The coverage is also optionally available for eligible family members.
The closing date is 24/01/2025.