business analyst - economics

Business AnalystRequisition ID: 46819 OrganizationVancouver is consistently ranked as one of the world?s most liveable and environmentally sustainable cities. Recognized among BC?s Top Employers and Canada?s Greenest Employers, the City of Vancouver is seeking colleagues who can help advance our core commitments to exceptional public service, sustainability, equity, and an outstanding quality of life for all residents.With a strong commitment to being a City of Reconciliation, we invite you to join our dedicated team and become part of an innovative, inclusive, and engaging workplace. A career with the City of Vancouver and within the broader public service, offers meaningful work where you play a key role in ensuring equitable access to services, upholding ethical governance, and supporting the needs of citizens with integrity and dedication.Main Purpose and FunctionThe Business Analyst - Park Operations Information and Data Management is responsible for leading and/or supporting a wide range of projects that provide business analysis and data support to inform strategic, operational and financial decision-making to improve performance and deliver value to the City. Park Operations supports a wide range of service areas including destination and neighbourhood parks, urban forestry, horticulture, park ranger services, mobile janitorial operations, and trade-based maintenance functions.This role supports the development of business-focused reporting, dashboards, and workflow solutions using Microsoft 365 tools to enhance operational efficiency, data accessibility, and decision-making This position supports the ongoing management and development of operational information and management systems and processes, which includes SAP, Hansen, VanTree, GIS, Microsoft 365 applications, records-management systems and other building-information tools and resources.The Business Analyst works with a variety of people to understand business needs and has the interested and expertise in data and analytics to translate those needs into clear business and date requirements. The role understands and evaluates how operational work is planned and delivered in the field, working closely with frontline management and groups across the organization. The analyst synthesizes and identifies relationships and correlations across datasets and has experience processing large volumes of data; analyzing and visualizing the data using business-intelligence tools. The position identifies and interprets data trends and issues, makes recommendations to improve business, operational and system processes, and transforms information into insights that support better business processes, service delivery and informed decision-making.Work includes leading and/or supporting a range of projects involving objective and comprehensive business analytics, data analysis, system-design research, business-process reviews/re-engineering and management reporting, and providing recommendations based on this work. The role facilitates decision-making and presents recommendations to the Park Operations Director, division and branch heads, senior management and business-unit managers.Specific Duties and Responsibilities Leads or supports the full lifecycle of business-process reviews, from current-state to future-state process mapping and implementation, using a variety of tools such as workflow and data/metrics analysis, fit/gap analysis to develop recommendations for improvement and identify associated implications. Leverages asset and operational management principles to inform specific projects, system improvements and service-delivery enhancements. Analyzes complex operational issues and develops practical recommendations supported by evidence and sound professional judgement. Support the Park Operations Director and work-group team on several projects concurrently, with a wide range of contributions. Produces reasoned and systematic analysis to provide input for key decisions Location Vancouver , BC Work location On site Salary $ 102,960 YEAR annually Terms of employment Permanent employment Full time Starts as soon as possible vacancies 1 vacancy Source CivicJobs.ca #115674 Various locations Vancouver, BC