Acxiom Jobshttp://acxiom.jobs2012-05-21 09:38:56.615788USAConwayTitle: SR COMPONENT BUSINESS ANALYST Location: 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. Duties and Responsibilities: *Elicits 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. *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. *Analyzes feasibility and resource changes as a result of requirements modifications through impact analysis reporting. Informs and advises affected parties of business impact. *Champions 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. *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. *Develops, maintains and demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of clients’ and Acxiom’s technical environments. Required Skills: *Develops, maintains and demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of clients’ and Acxiom’s technical and business environments. Considered as value-add by the customer to their business success. *2-4 years experience writing detailed business and functional requirements *At least 2 years experience with database marketing, direct marketing or interactive marketing environments *3-5 years experience working in an external client facing environment *At least 2 years experience with the solution development lifecycle *Considered knowledgeable on use of Acxiom Delivery Methodology Requirements Engineering and Change Management procedures *Considered knowledgeable on Acxiom organization structure and culture, the Acxiom Delivery Methodology and typical Delivery Tools. Considered knowledgeable of Acxiom products, services, and solutions. *Begin working towards Certified Business Analysis Professional Certification *The associate is expected to be fully functional and self-directed on medium to complex projects. *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. *The associate is expected to be able to interface with upper-level internal and mid to upper-level client stakeholders and communicate effectively. *Excellent Client facing skills. *Confident ability to understand complex database marketing solutions and extract requirements from client successfully. Note: travel 10-20% About Acxiom With 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’s 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. Acxiom has an impressive new senior executive team dedicated to both leading Acxiom to record performance results and to returning the company to a “best place to work” status. For details on our new company leaders, click on the links below. Scott Howe, CEO Warren Jenson, CFO Nada Stirratt, CRO It’s 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. Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-05-04 18:35:50United StatesAcxiomArkansas29302ARConway, AR28436791http://acxiom.jobs/xml/28436791/jobUSAConwayTitle: INTERN - Business Analyst Location: Arkansas-Conway The Business Analyst Intern will provide important assistance to several new initiatives in the Business Engineering Group. The selected candidate will work alongside other Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Product Managers, Architects, and Application Developers to decompose business requirements into system specifications and estimate the level of effort required to deliver said system to production. Job Duties and Responsibilities: *Perform Requirement Analysis *Define & document Requirement Specifications *Draft Logical System Models *Validate Requirements *Manage Requirements *Estimate Level of Effort Required Skills: *Strong communication & presentation skills *Proficient in technical writing & documentation *Knowledge of basic information technology concepts and business analysis *Ability to work with MS Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and similar office productivity tools *Ability to facilitate meetings to gather requirements and understand their business process issues *Creative, self-motivated problem solver and critical thinker *Superior organizational skills and attention to detail *Proficiency in statistical analysis/mathematics. Nice to Have Skills: *Understanding of programming fundamentals *Basic understanding of Software Development Lifecycle Preferred Educational Criteria: *Education – Bachelor or Masters students pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Information Quality, Information Systems, Mathematics and Statistics or related areas of study. Seeking December 2012, May 2013 or December 2013 graduates GPA – 2.75 or above About Acxiom: With 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’s 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. Acxiom has an impressive new senior executive team dedicated to both leading Acxiom to record performance results and to returning the company to a “best place to work” status. For details on our new company leaders, click on the links below. Scott Howe, CEO Warren Jenson, CFO Nada Stirratt, CRO It’s 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. Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-04-06 10:29:41United StatesAcxiomArkansas28932ARConway, AR27692212http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27692212/jobUSALittle RockTitle: BUSINESS ANALYST Location: Arkansas-Little Rock Business Analyst Location: Little Rock or Conway, Arkansas JOB SUMMARY: 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. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: •Elicits 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. •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. •Analyzes feasibility and resource changes as a result of requirements modifications through impact analysis reporting. Informs and advises affected parties of business impact. •Champions 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. •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. •Develops, maintains and demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of clients' and Acxiom's technical environments. •Keeps 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. •Seeks 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. •Leverages best practices, lessons learned with team. Builds shared sense of delivery goals and objectives. Basic Requirements: •Facilitation – Ability to lead requirements elicitation workshops, work with stakeholders to define acceptance criteria, moderate brainstorming sessions, etc. •Negotiating skills to get consensus about priorities, help resolve conflicts among project stakeholders, etc. •Analytical 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. •Effective Writing to communicate information effectively and consistently to different types of audiences, including senior management and technical development staff. •Modeling to represent requirements information in graphical forms, produce business object models, conceptual data models, process models etc. •Requirements 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. •Software & database fundamentals. •MS Office Apps such as Excel, Visio, Word, PowerPoint. About Acxiom With 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’s 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. Acxiom has an impressive new senior executive team dedicated to both leading Acxiom to record performance results and to returning the company to a “best place to work” status. For details on our new company leaders, click on the links below. Scott Howe, CEO<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Warren Jenson, CFO Nada Stirratt, CRO It’s 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. Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-04-06 10:29:23United StatesAcxiomArkansas29165ARLittle Rock, AR27692168http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27692168/job