Business Process Analyst

Career Area: Planning and Analysis

Occupation Group: Business Analysis

Salary

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A typical Business Process Analyst earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $84,500

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $83,626

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Evaluates, optimizes and designs work processes to optimize business outcomes. Advises on ways to improve operations, increase efficiency, reduce costs and increase revenues. Recommends business and organizational change.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Business Process Analyst is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Business Process: A business process or business method is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product (serve a particular goal) for a particular customer or customers.
• Process Improvement: A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Six Sigma: Six Sigma (6) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement.
• Business Analysis: Experience identifying business needs and and determining solutions to business problems.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Business Process Analyst that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Stakeholder Management: Working experience of Stakeholder Management, which is a critical component to the successful delivery of any project, programme or activity. A stakeholder is any individual, group or organization that can affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a programme. Stakeholder management creates positive relationships with stakeholders through the appropriate management of their expectations and agreed objectives.
• Business Process Modelling: Working experience of Business Process Modelling, which is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise in business process management and systems engineering, so that the current process may be analysed, improved, and automated. BPM is typically performed by business analysts, who provide expertise in the modeling discipline; by subject matter experts, who have specialized knowledge of the processes being modelled; or more commonly by a team comprising both. Alternatively, the process model can be derived directly from events' logs using process mining tools.
• ITIL: ITIL, formally an acronym for Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a set of detailed practices for IT service management (ITSM) that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business.
• Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC): The systems development life cycle (SDLC), also referred to as the application development life-cycle, is a term used in systems engineering, information systems and software engineering to describe a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying an information system.
• Business Systems Analysis: Systems analysis – the interpretation of business rules and requirements for technical systems (generally within IT)

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Business Process Analyst
• Process Improvement Analyst
• Business Process Consultant
• Process Analyst
• Business Process Manager

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