Senior Business Analyst
Location: New York, New York
Country: United States
Category: Business Analyst
Workplace Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract
Posted Date: October 15, 2026
Job ID: 652977
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 10 months
Schedule: 40 hrs/week
Pay Rate: $70 to $73.94/hr, DOE
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead process improvement activities and act as the Process Lead in business and application transformational projects to improve quality, reduce cost, increase productivity, and improve cycle time, resulting in significant business improvement and customer satisfaction
- Experience gathering requirements and performing UAT in order to implement human resource, finance, and other workflow systems
- Determine the best process and tools to determine root-cause analysis, collection of pain points, and facilitating process improvement meetings
- Liaise with key stakeholders to ensure buy-in for initiatives
- Liaise with technology solution leads
- Achieve buy-in from decision-makers for the successful application of project/performance improvement
- Provide management with project status updates, feedback, and appropriate reporting on key responsibilities and objectives
- Complete process improvement activities within a specified time frame, in alignment with the project plan
Additional responsibilities may include:
- Identify, analyze, and prepare risk mitigation tactics
- Consult and coach project teams
- Support and engage senior leaders
- Coach managers and supervisors
- Support organizational design and definition of roles and responsibilities
- Evaluate and ensure user readiness
- Manage stakeholders
- Track and report issues
- Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress
Skills & Qualifications:
- Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
- Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively and effectively with and through others at all levels in the organization
- Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships
- Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
- Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges
- Excellent active listening skills
- Exceptional communication skills, both written, quality of presentations and verbal
- Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
- Experience with different process improvement methodologies or frameworks
- Proven track record of process improvement delivery and root cause identification skills
- Ability to develop a process improvement framework tailored for the project or improvement goal
- Familiarity with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle
- Experience with large-scale organizational change efforts
- Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere
- Forward-looking with a holistic approach
- Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
- Black Belt with 3-4 years' experience facilitating business process improvement activities
- Green Belt with 15+ years' experience driving successful transformation process initiatives may be considered
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The Planet Group is a global professional services firm delivering strategic staffing and advisory solutions. We operate at the intersection of talent and transformation – connecting the right people with the right opportunities in the areas of technology, engineering, accounting & finance, digital marketing, and manufacturing.
As one of the largest staffing companies in the US, we operate with a global reach and a performance-first mindset. We partner with clients to move fast, stay agile, and drive measurable results – building high-impact teams that fuel transformation and growth.
