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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Business Analysts: Help please:)
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Hello ladies, I came out of lurkdom wondering if there's any Business Analysts out there that can help me. I"m interviewing for a Business Analyst position tomorrow. My background is Accounting with Big Four, but it looks like the position is very Finance related. Here is the description:
In this role, the Business Analyst participates in budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting and analysis of key metrics to assist with making good business decisions.
This position is junior level. I'm just wondering what a typical day is like for a Business Analyst and if I should be okay with my Accounting/Auditing background. Any advice for my interview tomorrow would be great as well. TIA:)
Re: Business Analysts: Help please:)
I'm not a business analyst expert, but in my personal experience, a business analyst typically has a strong analytics background, i.e., computational analysis (strong excel/access background), organizational design (manpower measurement and organizational optimization), performance measurement, etc. Basically, they take the existing process and make it better, a la LSS, PMP, and whatever other certification du jour is out there. I can't speak to your specific role, but it makes sense to me that a strong finance background would have the business analysis role: to know the budget is to understand the cost drivers, which enables you to develop and measure performance of the process against those cost drivers, which enables you to identify efficiencies, etc. etc. HTH?