Automotive Retail Domain Business Analuyst (44)

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.

• 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.

• 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