Lead Business Analyst

Overview

Lead Business Analyst for a contract role in India, working remotely. You’ll drive business process improvement and deliver BI dashboard requirements for a client procurement function.

What you'll do

• Drive continuous process improvement initiatives for the client procurement function.
• Work with procurement, category, finance, IT, and data stakeholders to gather and define processes and requirements.
• Translate requirements into functional specifications for a Power BI dashboard.
• Support the Project Manager with scope management, effort estimation inputs, and milestone tracking.
• Track, report, and resolve requirements issues using the RAID Log and Decision Log.
• Communicate plan, status, risks, and issues across governance forums.
• Coordinate UAT, prepare training materials, and provide hypercare support during deployments.

What you'll need

• Minimum 5+ years of experience as an IT Business Analyst.
• At least 1 year experience in a lead role.
• Proven requirements elicitation and delivery of BRDs, functional specifications, and BI data mapping documents.
• Fluent written and spoken English and Japanese.
• Experience with Power BI requirements definition, dashboard design, data model review, and UAT facilitation.
• Strong Power BI knowledge including data modeling (star schema), DAX measures, RLS, incremental refresh, and report design.

Nice to have

• Experience with spend analysis, spend classification/categorization, and procurement analytics domains.
• Experience with ERP/P2P procurement data sources such as SAP MM, SAP Ariba, Coupa, or Oracle Procurement.
• Understanding of procurement data structures like purchase orders, invoices, and contracts.
• Familiarity with spend classification frameworks such as UNSPSC, eClass, or custom taxonomies.

Details

• Location: India.
• Work mode: Remote.
• Employment type: Contract.