Automotive Retail Domain Business Analuyst

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Role: Automotive Retail Domain Consultant Work Location: : Plano, TX 75024 (Open to remote but will need to travel if needed by the client) Duration: 12 Months Client: Infosys/Toyota Motors Must Have Skills: • Automotive Retail • Domain Business • Analyst with Automotive Dealership Management System specialization • Working knowledge of Automotive DMS. • Key skills are Business analysis and knowledge of dealership operations. Detailed Job Description: • Minimum 8 years of relevant experience as a domain/ business consultant or management consultant or an industry practitioner in the Automotive Retail sector, with hands-on experience in US-based Automotive Dealership Management Systems. • Demonstrates strong proficiency in US automotive dealership business processes. Possess expertise in one or more Dealership-level Functional areas: Sales & Marketing, Inventory & Wholesaling, Parts & Service, Finance & Insurance. • Familiarity with State-specific regulations, compliance and local taxation standards. • Experience in driving meetings/workshops with senior client executives, business leads & cross functional stakeholders and articulate project documents lucidly required. • Conversant with more visual, more design-thinking based, and more agile lightweight approaches such as customer personas, customer journeys, service blueprints, story maps, etc. • Understands the larger, end to end business process that solutions fit into. • Willing to challenge requirements based on an understanding of prioritized objectives. • Provide research assistance and clarity of business demand specifications. Bridge gap between business and IT ensuring common understanding and IT/Business alignment. Coordinate the business subject matter experts' involvement in all aspects of the project. • Design Business Use cases, Lead Functional Architecture, Re-engineer process models and define Functional design for integrations. • Ability to understand and use advanced analysis methods in slightly complex client scenarios to ensure problem areas are identified and impact on the business is understood • Drive business workshops to define requirements, develop product backlog and elaborate functional specifications for an IT solution, using workshop tools like Confluence, Jira, Visio. • Document as-is & to-be business processes, assessing the business models, systems, and integration with technology • Work closely with client business team, product teams and business stakeholders to analyze requirements & prepare Product Backlog items • Prepare user stories, prepare acceptance criteria for user stories, and manage product backlog, with prioritization • Leverage industry open standards such as Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR) to define functional interfaces between Dealer and OEM systems. • Working experience in Agile methodologies & tools (e.g., JIRA), Understanding and exposure to Software dev. lifecycle • Work in onshore and offshore model. Top 3 responsibilities you would expect the Subcon to shoulder and execute: • Experience in Automotive domain with dealership management specialization • Design Business Use cases, Lead Functional Architecture, Reengineer process models and define Functional design for integrations • Bridge gap between business and IT ensuring common understanding and ITBusiness alignment