Senior project analyst job description
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Senior project analyst requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in senior project analyst job postings.
Sample senior project analyst requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in project analysis.
- Proficiency in project management software.
- Excellent knowledge of project management principles.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Sample required senior project analyst soft skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Creative and innovative thinking.
Senior project analyst job description example 1
USPI senior project analyst job description
The Sr. Analyst of Development Strategy and Special Projects will play a key role on USPI's Corporate Development team. The Sr. Analyst will be responsible for supporting the development and continued improvement of the overall M&A strategy process, standards, and performance. The ideal candidate will have experience working with analytical tools with application of strategic and critical thinking skills to synthesize findings and make recommendations. In this role, the Sr. Analyst will have exposure to and experience working with all areas of the M&A business, in addition to working on special projects supporting USPI's key priorities and initiatives and Corporate Development team.
The Sr. Analyst's essential duties and responsibilities will include the following:
Manage and be subject matter expert on strategic development tools and reporting
Design and lead process for advanced, dynamic, and automated reporting of critical development metrics
Collect, analyze, synthesize, and present data and insights
Conduct market assessments and present findings and recommendations to M&A team and USPI executives
Facilitate process improvement planning and implementation, developing and refining processes and standards of the Corporate Development team
Lead project management activities and other special projects supporting USPI's key priorities and initiatives
Develop executive-level presentations, reports and materials
Required Skills:
Bachelor's Degree from a top-tier university
2-3 years of work experience in a relevant role; preferred experience in consulting, finance, or corporate development field
Advanced user of Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
Strong analytical, process improvement and critical thinking skills
Must be detail-oriented, have excellent time-management skills and experience in producing professional, high quality work products
Tenet Healthcare complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.
Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.
The Sr. Analyst's essential duties and responsibilities will include the following:
Manage and be subject matter expert on strategic development tools and reporting
Design and lead process for advanced, dynamic, and automated reporting of critical development metrics
Collect, analyze, synthesize, and present data and insights
Conduct market assessments and present findings and recommendations to M&A team and USPI executives
Facilitate process improvement planning and implementation, developing and refining processes and standards of the Corporate Development team
Lead project management activities and other special projects supporting USPI's key priorities and initiatives
Develop executive-level presentations, reports and materials
Required Skills:
Bachelor's Degree from a top-tier university
2-3 years of work experience in a relevant role; preferred experience in consulting, finance, or corporate development field
Advanced user of Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
Strong analytical, process improvement and critical thinking skills
Must be detail-oriented, have excellent time-management skills and experience in producing professional, high quality work products
Tenet Healthcare complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.
Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.
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Senior project analyst job description example 2
Visa senior project analyst job description
New Flows in a new organization within Visa Technology that is growing rapidly. As part of the New Flows Business Operations and Planning team, you will work closely with the workforce planners, governance leads and PMO teams to drive effective reporting strategies for New Flows organization.
We will rely on your sense of curiosity to ask appropriately provocative questions as you gather input from disparate sources and synthesize content in various forms. Your ingenuity and ability to leverage technology to execute simple solutions will help us solve some big problems. In this role you will be instrumental in conducting workshops for identifying gaps between current state and desired state for effective reporting, build a roadmap for collating data from multiple sources and building reports for effective communication to the leadership.
At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace.
If the aspects above excite, you might be able to help us. We are the team for you. Together, let us transform the way the world pays.
Essential Functions:
Responsibilities include building a reporting strategy, identifying immediate as well as long term reporting needs for both New Flows team and external orgs across the company, facilitating cross group collaboration on documentation, champion uniform ways of working across multiple New Flows verticals, driving the development of effective dashboards to track multiple key metrics, and helping to author report outs and presentations.
Create a reporting strategy for New Flows org, then drive execution of the same
Build reports and dashboards for tracking various finance and governance KPIs,
Explore and implement automation strategies for periodic refresh
Contribute to the development of KPIs, dashboards, and other program health tracking to provide visibility to key stakeholders on projects and programs. This will include working with key stakeholders to define key performance measures and driving analytics.
Provide regular visibility to leadership on progress, action items, blockers, risks, and dependencies.
Create flourishing culture of efficiency, excitement, fun and cohesion among all the New Flows functions by connecting the dots and leveraging best practices across the organization
Partner with peers for Org level communications including bi-weekly executive reporting, newsletter, and presentations for All-hands.
Ability to influence outcomes from partners at all levels of the organization.
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.
We will rely on your sense of curiosity to ask appropriately provocative questions as you gather input from disparate sources and synthesize content in various forms. Your ingenuity and ability to leverage technology to execute simple solutions will help us solve some big problems. In this role you will be instrumental in conducting workshops for identifying gaps between current state and desired state for effective reporting, build a roadmap for collating data from multiple sources and building reports for effective communication to the leadership.
At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace.
If the aspects above excite, you might be able to help us. We are the team for you. Together, let us transform the way the world pays.
Essential Functions:
Responsibilities include building a reporting strategy, identifying immediate as well as long term reporting needs for both New Flows team and external orgs across the company, facilitating cross group collaboration on documentation, champion uniform ways of working across multiple New Flows verticals, driving the development of effective dashboards to track multiple key metrics, and helping to author report outs and presentations.
Create a reporting strategy for New Flows org, then drive execution of the same
Build reports and dashboards for tracking various finance and governance KPIs,
Explore and implement automation strategies for periodic refresh
Contribute to the development of KPIs, dashboards, and other program health tracking to provide visibility to key stakeholders on projects and programs. This will include working with key stakeholders to define key performance measures and driving analytics.
Provide regular visibility to leadership on progress, action items, blockers, risks, and dependencies.
Create flourishing culture of efficiency, excitement, fun and cohesion among all the New Flows functions by connecting the dots and leveraging best practices across the organization
Partner with peers for Org level communications including bi-weekly executive reporting, newsletter, and presentations for All-hands.
Ability to influence outcomes from partners at all levels of the organization.
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.
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Senior project analyst job description example 3
Leidos senior project analyst job description
The Leidos Defense Group is currently seeking a Senior Project Analyst to support a crucial DoD mission. This project analyst will support the customer in performing its research and development mission through program planning and budget tasks, project monitoring and tracking, and the conduct of several science and engineering related projects.
The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, MD is currently seeking a driven, results oriented and motivated self-starter with excellent organizational skills to join our team as a Senior Project Analyst. Role functions would include ensuring requirements and milestones are established and met, through the implementation of project planning processes, providing visibility on contracts and funding. Successful candidate will work with project managers and technical leads to develop budgets and schedules meeting contractual/project requirements.
The analyst will monitor technical progress for customer projects and may conduct research to advise on recommendations for technical experiments, tests, and demonstration events. This may include data collection and analysis, and post-event reporting and briefings.
The employee will work independently on multiple, concurrent small to medium, moderately complex projects/assignments, set objectives for their own area to meet the objectives or goals. They will solve problems spanning a range of issues or areas through independent research and by drawing from prior experiences and completing in depth, detailed analysis. They will provide status updates and make recommendations based on their findings.
Though not frequent, there is a possibility for occasional travel on this project.
Primary Responsibilities:
Support the customers' budget manager in their responsibility to plan, execute and track the management of multiple funding types, including congressional, mission, and customer funding.Perform or assist with performing the following tasks:Coordinate periodic program reviews with technical engineers for ongoing development projects Monitor project technical performance, schedule, costs, and deliverables Consolidate data, conduct or validate analysis, and develop program reports and briefings for senior officials Maintain accurate records of the expenditures of funds on multiple projects Monitor funds expenditure to anticipate events such as the exhaustion of funding or the date at which additional incremental funding will be required Research, assess and provide inputs to support the customer evaluation of alternative funding plans for future contracting activities Draft various financial and policy documents, including working with external authorities as needed for editing and final release Maintain an electronic database of the financial and technical progress reports on multiple projects Assist the engineering team in researching emerging technologies, and planning, conducting, and reporting on experiments, demonstration events, and tests.Work under the direction of the task lead and COR, and with feedback from the supported government customer.Work as a part of, or lead small cross-functional teams including technical, contractual, managerial, and administrative personnel
Additional Responsibilities (may include but not limited to):
Communicates with colleagues across multiple areas (project managers, engineers, other functional resources, etc.) Explains procedures, solutions/recommendations, practices, and procedures to others within the organization Develops spreadsheets, briefings, white papers, and reports to senior and peer personnel communicating status, outcomes, and recommendations.Collaborate with other organizational personnel to develop the same products on a larger scale, and with higher visibility.Operate both independently, and as part of small teams where they may be the sole project analyst. Coordinate as needed with the larger customer organization financial, contracting, and technical project teams, to include resolving issues, and support of organization-wide policy implementation, audits, and inspections.Support cyclical financial tracking and reporting, complete budget forecasts, track burn rate expenditures, and budget expenditure reporting.Complete both single-event planning for special projects, and multi-scenario planning for budget contingencies such as a continuing resolution.Coordinate/lead projects where project analysis functions and responsibilities are a major component.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in finance, science, or related technical field, with eight or more years relevant experience. May consider additional years of applicable experience, certifications, and/or training in lieu of degree requirement.Currently possess an active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance, must be able to successfully complete a post-hire Special Access Program briefing to remain in this position Proficient in MS Office applications, mainly Excel (including functions such as pivot tables, graphing trend lines, and data analysis), and PowerPoint (preparing, editing, formatting presentations from disparate sources of information) Communicates clearly in written and verbal form with senior, peer, and subordinate personnel Operate in a dynamic environment, rapidly learn new skills, and ability to organize and analyze information from disparate sources into various formats for subsequent use
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree in finance, science, or related technical field, with six or more years of relevant experience Previous experience within the ARL program office or another government agency (including department of defense) Familiarity with government funding processes and tools, to include program acquisition cycle; funding types, uses and timelines; contract types, contract documentation such as awards, modifications and MIPRS; and funds management systems such as ODS, GFEBs and WAWFTechnical knowledge or experience in customer's functions, including aeronautical, electrical, systems engineering, chemistry, or physics
Pay Range:
Pay Range $72,150.00 - $111,000.00 - $149,850.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, MD is currently seeking a driven, results oriented and motivated self-starter with excellent organizational skills to join our team as a Senior Project Analyst. Role functions would include ensuring requirements and milestones are established and met, through the implementation of project planning processes, providing visibility on contracts and funding. Successful candidate will work with project managers and technical leads to develop budgets and schedules meeting contractual/project requirements.
The analyst will monitor technical progress for customer projects and may conduct research to advise on recommendations for technical experiments, tests, and demonstration events. This may include data collection and analysis, and post-event reporting and briefings.
The employee will work independently on multiple, concurrent small to medium, moderately complex projects/assignments, set objectives for their own area to meet the objectives or goals. They will solve problems spanning a range of issues or areas through independent research and by drawing from prior experiences and completing in depth, detailed analysis. They will provide status updates and make recommendations based on their findings.
Though not frequent, there is a possibility for occasional travel on this project.
Primary Responsibilities:
Support the customers' budget manager in their responsibility to plan, execute and track the management of multiple funding types, including congressional, mission, and customer funding.Perform or assist with performing the following tasks:Coordinate periodic program reviews with technical engineers for ongoing development projects Monitor project technical performance, schedule, costs, and deliverables Consolidate data, conduct or validate analysis, and develop program reports and briefings for senior officials Maintain accurate records of the expenditures of funds on multiple projects Monitor funds expenditure to anticipate events such as the exhaustion of funding or the date at which additional incremental funding will be required Research, assess and provide inputs to support the customer evaluation of alternative funding plans for future contracting activities Draft various financial and policy documents, including working with external authorities as needed for editing and final release Maintain an electronic database of the financial and technical progress reports on multiple projects Assist the engineering team in researching emerging technologies, and planning, conducting, and reporting on experiments, demonstration events, and tests.Work under the direction of the task lead and COR, and with feedback from the supported government customer.Work as a part of, or lead small cross-functional teams including technical, contractual, managerial, and administrative personnel
Additional Responsibilities (may include but not limited to):
Communicates with colleagues across multiple areas (project managers, engineers, other functional resources, etc.) Explains procedures, solutions/recommendations, practices, and procedures to others within the organization Develops spreadsheets, briefings, white papers, and reports to senior and peer personnel communicating status, outcomes, and recommendations.Collaborate with other organizational personnel to develop the same products on a larger scale, and with higher visibility.Operate both independently, and as part of small teams where they may be the sole project analyst. Coordinate as needed with the larger customer organization financial, contracting, and technical project teams, to include resolving issues, and support of organization-wide policy implementation, audits, and inspections.Support cyclical financial tracking and reporting, complete budget forecasts, track burn rate expenditures, and budget expenditure reporting.Complete both single-event planning for special projects, and multi-scenario planning for budget contingencies such as a continuing resolution.Coordinate/lead projects where project analysis functions and responsibilities are a major component.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in finance, science, or related technical field, with eight or more years relevant experience. May consider additional years of applicable experience, certifications, and/or training in lieu of degree requirement.Currently possess an active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance, must be able to successfully complete a post-hire Special Access Program briefing to remain in this position Proficient in MS Office applications, mainly Excel (including functions such as pivot tables, graphing trend lines, and data analysis), and PowerPoint (preparing, editing, formatting presentations from disparate sources of information) Communicates clearly in written and verbal form with senior, peer, and subordinate personnel Operate in a dynamic environment, rapidly learn new skills, and ability to organize and analyze information from disparate sources into various formats for subsequent use
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree in finance, science, or related technical field, with six or more years of relevant experience Previous experience within the ARL program office or another government agency (including department of defense) Familiarity with government funding processes and tools, to include program acquisition cycle; funding types, uses and timelines; contract types, contract documentation such as awards, modifications and MIPRS; and funds management systems such as ODS, GFEBs and WAWFTechnical knowledge or experience in customer's functions, including aeronautical, electrical, systems engineering, chemistry, or physics
Pay Range:
Pay Range $72,150.00 - $111,000.00 - $149,850.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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Updated March 14, 2024