Business Analyst - Personal Care Startup - IIT

Company: A personal care (skincare) start-up based out of Mumbai.

The duties and responsibilities of a Business Analyst usually include:

- Evaluating a business's operations to analyze their cost and efficiency

- Helping to develop project plans and ensuring their timely completion

- Analyzing an organization's large data sets to provide actionable insights

- Budgeting and conducting financial analysis

- Recommending process improvements to increase a business's efficiency

Responsibilities :

- Data analysis - Creatively obtain and vet data, develop and execute quantitative analyses with (potentially incomplete) data, cross-check results to identify potential inconsistencies or limitations. Define detailed functional requirements, process flow diagrams, and business cases; including gap and impact analysis

- Business insights - Understand business implications of observations, interviews, and analyses. Establish and support the rhythm of business activities related to reporting, including audit planning cycle and metrics

- Leadership - Coordinate cross-functional teams to execute key value creation (top and bottom line) and manage transformation initiatives

- Communication - Craft polished written communications and deliver oral communications of findings and recommendations in an effective and efficient manner

- Influence - Collaborate positively with project stakeholders to secure support and implement recommendations in a fast-paced environment

- Strategy - Develop business segment strategies, research markets & competitors, articulate value propositions, and identify growth opportunities

- Problem structuring - Identify key issues, develop hypotheses and methodology to verify or refute them

- Project management - Clearly scope and track projects, develop and assign workstreams, maintain a steady pace, and ensure reliable delivery; influence and negotiate high impact projects or high-cost expenditures and manage the execution of them

- Other - Support other corporate strategy responsibilities as needed, including strategic planning, market research, mergers and acquisitions, and competitor benchmarking

Requirement :

- 3-5 years of work experience.

- Education: B.Tech from IIT

- Passion for building a start-up