Business analyst is a fairly advanced profession. She appeared quite recently. Basically, people of such specialization are very valued, since their significance is difficult to overestimate. Without this professional, no IT company can do without this.
Thanks to his work, it can be easily agreed and understand each other as the customer and the developer.
Peculiarities
If you see the lists of the most sought-after professions, then you will see the profession of a business analyst in the forefront. What does a person who has this profession? Business analyst uses business analysis methods. It is engaged in this activity in order to identify problems in business and suggest ways to solve them.
The demand for business analytics in the labor market is difficult to overestimate. And that's why. The beneficial future of the entire company depends on this specialist, that is, profit and salaries of employees. Analyst helps to optimize and improve business processes. They depends on the viability of an enterprise or company.
In order to become a high-class specialist, it is necessary to have the following knowledge:
- You need to know the basis of the life cycles of the software product;
- Basics of system analysis, basics of business planning, web programming basics;
- processes of the enterprise, taking into account the sectoral orientation;
- You need to be able to work in ARIS Express, Business Studio, Bpwin, etc.;
- Know Programs 1C, SAP, Oracle, MS Visio, MS SQL, MS Project, SED;
- To be able to describe business processes and analyze them, as well as a specialist of this level should evaluate the effectiveness of the enterprise;
- It is necessary to have in stock the skills of developing a technical task for the information system.
In addition, it is necessary to have certain personal qualities that will help work without failures. List them:
- Analytical mind;
- attentiveness, perseverance, sociability;
- ability to analyze and take into account a large group of relevant data;
- The specialist must quickly assimilate information and be creative.
This profession has huge advantages. First of all, it is a high salary and career guarantee. Business analysts are very in demand, and their work is characterized by a variety. Due to its activities, the specialist can increase its communication level.
However, if you are afraid of responsibility, then this profession is not for you. Her disadvantages are that:
- Specialist is on business trips all the time;
- I have to promote your ideas all the time, despite the resistance of people;
- may fall into the unpleasant situation due to disagreements with the customer;
- Large employment and high voltage due to mental labor.
Professional duties
The business analyst is engaged in analyzing the multi-directional solutions of the Customer, understands the problems of business, finds deficiencies in the work of management. Besides, This specialist finds ways to help improve work efficiency and improve profit levers.
The business analyst must fulfill all the requirements of the client, communicate with it and draw up the specification. This document contains all items to be performed. The document also provides a description of the product and its purpose. In addition, its intended purpose is taken into account, restrictions that may arise. It also adjusts all the necessary functions and defines the working environment.
The business analyst is obliged to hold first of all the analysis of the needs of the client. He will need to write all the necessary requirements for the product, as well as conduct their analysis. And then try on the basis of drawn up data to improve the situation that dynamically affect future profits. In addition, management provides for work on documentary changes.
The business analyst must focus on the client, be able to see everything that does not see the customer. Therefore, he needs to be able to abstract and look at the situation as if from.
Each analytics must be able to work simply in the team. Therefore, you need to be a tactful person and try to always come to the aid of a colleague. The expert must be familiar to the analyst. With the help of an analytical warehouse, he will be able to decompose everything in the shelves. In addition, this will allow you to see the shortcomings in the environment and put into order not only in your thoughts, but also in the thoughts of the surrounding staff.
Collecting information is another point that helps analytics. Therefore, a specialist should be able to find out what the customer really wants. To do this, it is necessary to talk and lead the correct dialogue. The method of belief is another point that is very important in the profession of a business analyst. He must be able to relieve the client, if he sees weak places in the project. It is also necessary to make bold solutions and be responsible for them.
Language barrier uniquely should not interfere with working. Therefore, the business analyst must perfectly own not only his native language, but also English. The specialist should be very competent and be able to formulate its thoughts both on paper and in oral speech.
Education
For justice, it should be noted that finding a specialized institution and learn to business analyst without problems is quite difficult. In special universities, it is not provided for the choice of an ideal program that would contribute to the full training of specialists of this level. Nevertheless, the leading universities of the countries offer very good retraining programs. However, before this, it is necessary to complete any higher educational institution associated with the economic sphere, and is desirable for very good assessments. And then also to work in the economy for more than one year. It is advisable to work in a very large company, but if it is impossible, then work where you get very large additional knowledge and skills.
Only then will you have a huge luggage of knowledge, you can try to become a business analyst and enroll in a specialized educational institution in which you can go a successful retraining. We list a list of higher educational institutions, where they give decent knowledge:
- Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation - School of IT-Management, here a special program for business analysis is provided;
- NiU "Higher School of Economics";
- Moscow Physico-Technical Institute, it is proposed for specialization called "System Analysis and Management";
- Economic Academy. Plekhanov.
To enroll and study on a business analyst, you need to pass the exam in Russian, mathematics and social science. Again, you will need to also score the maximum number of points, as well as passing additional testing, which is provided in the university itself. If you follow these conditions, you can learn from the budget department. In another case, you also need to gain a rather high number of points. However, if the dialed number is not high, or you cannot adequately go through additional certification, then you will have to learn for a fee.
If you do not overshadow a certain threshold, passing the above items, then from studying in such serious universities will have to refuse. And you need to say that not in your will. Just to learn from the "Business Analyst" program, you will need very good knowledge. Nevertheless, many advanced people are trying to change the sphere of their activities to earn more. For example, become a business analyst. However, for this they need a special professional base. For example, the IT officers can easily go to a new activity, as they understand the specifics of the industry under consideration and are accustomed to talking on a certain slang. But you need to remember that in one month it is impossible to become a business analyst, despite the fact that you are a high-class IT.
Therefore, decide with your strong parties. Decide in which areas you were not particularly successful, as well as remember the best works and how you offered to implement them. So you can make an inventory of your knowledge and understand your strengths. It will serve as a definite support on the site of the new position. In addition, you will need to explore the theory. Without it, you will not be able to work "on the full coil." Therefore, try to read the book of Charles Wieger "Developing Software Requirements". It will also be easier to complete the Course Custom Needs and Software Requirements on Coursera. But this can be done, if you own impeccable English. Therefore, be sure to learn English. Fortunately, there are now many programs for the study of foreign languages, which can be mastered using the Internet.
Without the ability to communicate, you will be difficult for you to know the new profession. Therefore, try to acquire knowledge about how to talk right, that is, set out the right right.
To do this, you can read the book M. Ilyajova and L. Sarycheva "Write and Reducing", as well as another book that the Rapay Clotter called "Cultural Code".
Be a curious person. This will help you to learn new knowledge. Never refuse to explore something unusual and interesting, even when it won't have anything to do with your work. Thus, you will increase the intellectual level. From all the above, we can conclude: to become a successful business analytics, you need to be prepared for what you have to learn the rest of your life. The profession under consideration is a dynamic profession. It will not be possible to explore only one question and further rely on these knowledge.
You will have to work on yourself all the time. You need all the time to switch your attention from one object to another and for a small period of time to dispose of a huge margin of information. In this you can help recommendations from the book of Professor Barbara Okley "Think like a mathematician", "how to solve any tasks faster and more efficient." And the main thing is to start working seriously, you do not need any certifications, only special knowledge. If you still want to make a certificate, you can contact the International Institute of Business Analysis and get the first L1 - ECBA certification (Entry Certificate in Business Analysis).
To master the profession, you need to have an idea of this profession. Therefore, for a start, try to talk with an experienced colleague through social networks. His experience will be the starting point for you. Well in this direction are helping thematic conferences and works of classics of this level. So you will be an expert, and certain tasks will be on your shoulder.
True, before taking any decisions, you will have to view a huge number of information and choose only the most important.
Wage
Those professions that meet modern requirements are always considered highly paid. Business analyst is a prestigious profession. However, the level of salaries of these specialists affects not only demand, but also experience, level of qualification, the company's level, and, of course, the region where the company is located. Therefore, the exact figure that will speak about pay for labor, no one will call you. In general, the salary of the business analyst fluctuates from 30,000 to 150,000 rubles. However, the last figure says more that the business analyst works in Moscow.
Resperating itself, the company will not attend a specialist who has just passed training. At best, you will be offered to work as an assistant business analyst. And it will be right. Salary, of course, will not be as big as a high-class specialist, but its level will be much higher than that of other ordinary employees.
And now consider the approximate salary of business analysts that work in the regions:
- Moscow region - 50000- 150000 ($ 791);
- Kaliningrad region - 60000 ($ 949);
- Rostov region - 30000 ($ 475);
- Leningrad - 17500-100 000 ($ 277).
- Khabarovsk region - 35000 ($ 554).
As we see, the minimum earnings are a salary of 30 thousand rubles. And this earnings, despite everything, is considered pretty decent in those regions where the level of salaries leaves much to be desired.
Place of work
So, a career a business analyst usually begins either from the office of an assistant business analyst, or from the post of junior business analyst. As soon as the specialist will pass a trial period, will manifest itself as an experienced employee, will show his level of knowledge, he can pass attestation. After that, this employee of the company can apply for the post of expert or the main business analyst. However, always and everywhere, the main word remains for the head of the company. If you are lucky, the business analyst can lead any project and not even one. Again, if all projects are competently built and successfully completed, then perhaps a specialist will be offered to head the analytical department, and he will become his leader.
However, if this does not happen, a high-class specialist will be able to provide consulting services in private. By and large, a specialist of this level can take a leading position in any business, as it has a very extensive experience in entrepreneurship. For example, a business analyst can master a very large circle of analytical tasks, master new competencies. Ultimately, the career growth of a very competent employee can reach apogee, and it will become Enterprise Architect, namely, it will hold the entire skeleton of the enterprise on which it works.
He can also become a product manager, climbing up career. In the field of business analysts, you can move on the stairs vertically (climbing the career staircase), and you can move horizontally and develop your managerial skills. By and large, business analysts are required everywhere and everywhere, that is, where there is a very developed business structure. Of course, you do not suit the business analyst in the village or in a small town. On the unacces of freelance, this profession is also little in demand.
Nevertheless, specialists of this level are required at large enterprises that are not related to information technology, and can also be used in the financial sector of services.
If you have received a specialty business analyst, you are already considered a great young and in demand by a specialist who can easily find a common language with the employer. And then show yourself, show your abilities, and you will succeed.
