Toastmasters International

Business Analyst

• Define and document business functions and processes
• Identifies and solicits opportunities for business process improvement
• Consult with functional business unit management and personnel to identify, define and document business needs and objectives
• Acts as a liaison between department end-users, application developers, management and other internal personnel in the analysis, design, configuration, testing and maintenance of systems
• Participates in user acceptance testing and testing of new or enhanced system functionality
• Support Quality Assurance engineers in translating business requirements to test requirements
• Participate actively in requirements analysis, validation, and verification
• Responsible to setup and track PBI’s in Azure DevOps for teams to work from
• Effective communication relevant information to company management
• Assist in the facilitation of requirements prioritization based on business value
• Assist in enforcement of project deadlines, schedules and methodologies

Manager

• Directing and overseeing the organization's portfolio of projects and performance.
• Managing budget, team leadership and cross-functional collaboration, and risk management/mitigation.
• Leading some programs as well as managing the small PMO.
• Aligns operational programs and strategies to assist the organization in meeting goals and objectives efficiently.
• Monitors and analyzes performance metrics and summarizes operational data.
• Approves and allocates resources based on business priorities.
• Coordinates with leadership staff to assess and ensure performance growth.
• Responsible for PM of some programs while leading the PMO (hands on role)
• Develops and directs project management operations and strategic planning to meet organizational goals.
• Provides overall strategic governance for projects by establishing standards, processes, and tools used for effective project delivery.
• Develops project scope, budget, and schedules; and assures projects meet the organization's strategic objectives, performance targets, and needs.
• Prioritizes and determines capacity for company-wide current and future projects.
• Establishes measures to set productivity and quality targets and to assess results for all projects.
• Responds to escalated project issues that may impede project delivery and coordinates solutions.
• Monitors and analyzes project metrics to identify weaknesses or problems and to propose operational improvements and/or cost savings for future projects.
• Establishes project teams and distributes the project workload.
• Sets and manages project expectations.
• Ensure projects are completed on time and within established quality standards.
• Delivers project updates and results to the senior leadership team, and/or project sponsors.
• Assists in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and removing roadblocks to their work.
• Contributes to strategic planning, direction, and goal setting for the organization in collaboration with members of the leadership team.
• Supports the mission, goals, objectives, and values of the organization.
• Inspires teamwork and achieving goals

Business Analyst

Senior PMO Manager