[{"country_short": "USA", "city": "Conway", "description": "Title: SR COMPONENT BUSINESS ANALYST\nLocation: Arkansas-ConwayThe Business Analyst interfaces with client and internal business teams regarding business problems, issues and opportunities in the context of business requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle. Analyzes complex business information, translates requirements into functional specifications and champions client and/or internal business needs while balancing climate, priorities, capabilities and constraints of client and Acxiom environments.\n\nDuties and Responsibilities:\n*Elicits information based on client and/or internal business needs; documents requirements and translates requirements into functional specifications adhering to Acxiom\u2019s Project Management and Business Analyst methodologies.\n*Synthesizes complex information into concise, readable, unambiguous language. Owns written requirements/specifications, acceptance, traceability matrix and related documents from creation and modification through solution delivery. \n*Analyzes feasibility and resource changes as a result of requirements modifications through impact analysis reporting. Informs and advises affected parties of business impact.\n*Champions the business needs and \u201cpain points\u201d of the client and/or internal team while balancing the climate, priorities, capabilities and constraints of both client and Acxiom.\n*Assists in testing phases, including test development and requirement test acceptance. *Raises concerns that may impede test acceptance. Remediates issues. Understands testing methodologies (e.g. Agile in order to effectively work with test teams.\n*Develops, maintains and demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of clients\u2019 and Acxiom\u2019s technical environments.\n\nRequired Skills:\n*Develops, maintains and demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of clients\u2019 and Acxiom\u2019s technical and business environments. Considered as value-add by the customer to their business success.\n*2-4 years experience writing detailed business and functional requirements\n*At least 2 years experience with database marketing, direct marketing or interactive marketing environments\n*3-5 years experience working in an external client facing environment\n*At least 2 years experience with the solution development lifecycle\n*Considered knowledgeable on use of Acxiom Delivery Methodology Requirements Engineering and Change Management procedures\n*Considered knowledgeable on Acxiom organization structure and culture, the Acxiom Delivery Methodology and typical Delivery Tools. Considered knowledgeable of Acxiom products, services, and solutions.\n*Begin working towards Certified Business Analysis Professional Certification\n*The associate is expected to be fully functional and self-directed on medium to complex projects.\n*The associate is involved in technical, development, or account related projects or processes that may be critical to the medium to large company, division, or unit.\n*The associate is expected to be able to interface with upper-level internal and mid to upper-level client stakeholders and communicate effectively.\n*Excellent Client facing skills.\n*Confident ability to understand complex database marketing solutions and extract requirements from client successfully.\n\nNote: travel 10-20%\n\n\nAbout Acxiom\nWith a proven 40-year history, a clientele list that includes all of the top advertisers, and a market cap north of $1B, Acxiom Corporation is the clear leader in the marketing services and technology space. The world of marketing has changed dramatically with the proliferation of advanced mobile devices, tablets, cable television channels, infinite array of display internet sites, search, and digital billboards. Consumers are exposed to marketing content at every turn and marketers need to tell them a targeted, sequenced and serialized story to most effectively drive consumer action. The common denominator and necessary tool for every marketer is data. Acxiom\u2019s cutting edge technologies enable the marketer to mine data in a way that allows for a synchronized message that reaches the consumer at the most crucial touch points.\n\nAcxiom has an impressive new senior executive team dedicated to both leading Acxiom to record performance results and to returning the company to a \u201cbest place to work\u201d status. For details on our new company leaders, click on the links below.\n\n\nScott Howe, CEO\nWarren Jenson, CFO\nNada Stirratt, CRO\nIt\u2019s a great time to consider Acxiom for career opportunities. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, AR, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States (Little Rock, Conway, and Fayetteville, AR; Foster City, CA; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Nashville, TN; Atlanta, GA; Broomfield, CO) as well as multiple locations in Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. Acxiom is an EEO/AA employer.\n\nReceive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.", "date_new": "2012-05-04 18:35:50", "url": "http://acxiom.jobs/xml/28436791/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Acxiom", "title": "SR COMPONENT BUSINESS ANALYST", "reqid": "29302", "state": "Arkansas", "state_short": "AR", "location": "Conway, AR", "uid": 28436791}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Conway", "description": "Title: INTERN - Business Analyst\nLocation: Arkansas-Conway\nThe Business Analyst Intern will provide important assistance to\nseveral new initiatives in the Business Engineering Group. The selected\ncandidate will work alongside other Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Product\nManagers, Architects, and Application Developers to decompose business\nrequirements into system specifications and estimate the level of effort\nrequired to deliver said system to production.\n\nJob Duties and Responsibilities:\n*Perform Requirement Analysis\n*Define & document Requirement Specifications\n*Draft Logical System Models\n*Validate Requirements\n*Manage Requirements\n*Estimate Level of Effort\nRequired Skills:\n*Strong communication & presentation skills\n*Proficient in technical writing & documentation\n*Knowledge of basic information technology concepts and business\nanalysis\n*Ability to work with MS Office products such as Word, Excel,\nPowerPoint and similar office productivity tools\n*Ability to facilitate meetings to gather requirements and\nunderstand their business process issues\n*Creative, self-motivated problem solver and critical thinker\n*Superior organizational skills and attention to detail\n*Proficiency in statistical analysis/mathematics.\n\nNice to Have Skills:\n*Understanding of programming fundamentals\n*Basic understanding of Software Development Lifecycle\n\nPreferred Educational Criteria:\n*Education\n\u2013 Bachelor or Masters students pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer\nInformation Systems, Management Information Systems, Information Quality,\nInformation Systems, Mathematics and Statistics or related areas of\nstudy.  Seeking December 2012, May 2013 or December 2013 graduates\nGPA \u2013 2.75 or above\n\n\nAbout Acxiom:\nWith a proven 40-year history, a clientele list that includes all of the top advertisers, and a market cap north of $1B, Acxiom Corporation is the clear leader in the marketing services and technology space. The world of marketing has changed dramatically with the proliferation of advanced mobile devices, tablets, cable television channels, infinite array of display internet sites, search, and digital billboards. Consumers are exposed to marketing content at every turn and marketers need to tell them a targeted, sequenced and serialized story to most effectively drive consumer action. The common denominator and necessary tool for every marketer is data. Acxiom\u2019s cutting edge technologies enable the marketer to mine data in a way that allows for a synchronized message that reaches the consumer at the most crucial touch points.\n\nAcxiom has an impressive new senior executive team dedicated to both leading Acxiom to record performance results and to returning the company to a \u201cbest place to work\u201d status. For details on our new company leaders, click on the links below.\n\n\nScott\nHowe, CEO\nWarren\nJenson, CFO\nNada\nStirratt, CRO\n\nIt\u2019s a great time to consider Acxiom for career opportunities. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, AR, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States (Little Rock, Conway, and Fayetteville, AR; Foster City, CA; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Nashville, TN; Atlanta, GA; Broomfield, CO) as well as multiple locations in Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. Acxiom is an EEO/AA employer.\n\nReceive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.", "date_new": "2012-04-06 10:29:41", "url": "http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27692212/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Acxiom", "title": "INTERN - Business Analyst", "reqid": "28932", "state": "Arkansas", "state_short": "AR", "location": "Conway, AR", "uid": 27692212}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Little Rock", "description": "Title: BUSINESS ANALYST\nLocation: Arkansas-Little Rock\nBusiness Analyst\nLocation: Little Rock or Conway, Arkansas\n\nJOB SUMMARY:\nInterfaces with client and internal business teams regarding business problems, issues and opportunities in the context of business requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle. Analyzes complex business information, translates requirements into functional specifications and champions client and/or internal business needs while balancing climate, priorities, capabilities and constraints of client and Acxiom environments.\n\nDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\n\u2022Elicits information based on client and/or internal business needs; documents requirements and translates requirements into functional specifications adhering to Acxiom's Project Management and Business Analyst methodologies.\n\u2022Synthesizes complex information into concise, readable, unambiguous language. Owns written requirements/specifications, acceptance, traceability matrix and related documents from creation and modification through solution delivery.\n\u2022Analyzes feasibility and resource changes as a result of requirements modifications through impact analysis reporting. Informs and advises affected parties of business impact.\n\u2022Champions the business needs and \"pain points\" of the client and/or internal team while balancing the climate, priorities, capabilities and constraints of both client and Acxiom.\n\u2022Assists in testing phases, including test development and requirement test acceptance. Raises concerns that may impede test acceptance. Remediates issues. Understands testing methodologies (e.g. Agile) in order to effectively work with test teams.\n\u2022Develops, maintains and demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of clients' and Acxiom's technical environments.\n\u2022Keeps informed of latest industry news, trends, products, services, competitors and relevant existing and emerging technologies that may impact present and future account and business performance.\n\u2022Seeks opportunities for process improvement without negatively impacting service delivery. Standardizes approaches and processes as appropriate. Proactively seeks areas of efficiencies that can drive project improvement.\n\u2022Leverages best practices, lessons learned with team. Builds shared sense of delivery goals and objectives.\n\n\n\nBasic Requirements:\n\u2022Facilitation \u2013 Ability to lead requirements elicitation workshops, work with stakeholders to define acceptance criteria, moderate brainstorming sessions, etc.\n\u2022Negotiating skills to get consensus about priorities, help resolve conflicts among project stakeholders, etc.\n\u2022Analytical to critically evaluate data gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicting requirements, decompose high-level information into details, abstract from particular examples to a more general understanding, identify underlying needs from explicit user requests, etc.\n\u2022Effective Writing to communicate information effectively and consistently to different types of audiences, including senior management and technical development staff.\n\u2022Modeling to represent requirements information in graphical forms, produce business object models, conceptual data models, process models etc.\n\u2022Requirements management to help implement and/or improve requirements processes and practices and to define, for a given initiative, the tasks to be performed, the techniques to be used, and the deliverables to be produced. Requirement traceability. Requirement change management.\n\u2022Software & database fundamentals.\n\u2022MS Office Apps such as Excel, Visio, Word, PowerPoint.\n\nAbout Acxiom\nWith a proven 40-year history, a clientele list that includes all of the top advertisers, and a market cap north of $1B, Acxiom Corporation is the clear leader in the marketing services and technology space. The world of marketing has changed dramatically with the proliferation of advanced mobile devices, tablets, cable television channels, infinite array of display internet sites, search, and digital billboards. Consumers are exposed to marketing content at every turn and marketers need to tell them a targeted, sequenced and serialized story to most effectively drive consumer action. The common denominator and necessary tool for every marketer is data. Acxiom\u2019s cutting edge technologies enable the marketer to mine data in a way that allows for a synchronized message that reaches the consumer at the most crucial touch points.\n\nAcxiom has an impressive new senior executive team dedicated to both leading Acxiom to record performance results and to returning the company to a \u201cbest place to work\u201d status. For details on our new company leaders, click on the links below.\n\nScott Howe, CEO<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" />\nWarren Jenson, CFO\nNada Stirratt, CRO\nIt\u2019s a great time to consider Acxiom for career opportunities. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, AR, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States (Little Rock, Conway, and Fayetteville, AR; Foster City, CA; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Nashville, TN; Atlanta, GA; Broomfield, CO) as well as multiple locations in Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. Acxiom is an EEO/AA employer.\n\nReceive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.", "date_new": "2012-04-06 10:29:23", "url": "http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27692168/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Acxiom", "title": "BUSINESS ANALYST", "reqid": "29165", "state": "Arkansas", "state_short": "AR", "location": "Little Rock, AR", "uid": 27692168}]