Becoming a Business Analyst

Lidhiya devi S
3 min readMar 1, 2022

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Have you heard about the term Buisness Analyst?If no,aren’t you eager to know more.Lets dig in deeper.

Business Analyst is a growing field in today’s time.It acts as a bridge between IT and business,and helps one to take keen business related decisions.The business analyst career can be an excellent career opportunity for those individuals who have an idea of evaluating and analyzing data, developing solutions, handling numerous individuals while shining at IT.The need for this role is increasing worldwide.

BA plays a vital role and are involved in every single step of a business project.BA connects the business leades and the client and describe how the data driven changes to process,product ,hardware can be improved with the analytical skills by gathering all the business requirements.Inbetween business analysts do balance the feasiblity of technologies and also financial stuffs.

Roles Business Analyst:

*The primary role of Business analyst is to gather requirement including documents and to clearly analyse various requirement in different dimension.

*They have a main responsibility of providing solution to solve the problems technically.

*Business Analyst also produce system documentation including user manuals.

  • They do maintain reporting,budgeting,planning and monitoring.

Skills of Business Analyst:

  • Understanding the objective of business and company’s goal — Always the business analyst must have a good understanding about the project,the need of projects and the company’s business insight
  • Excel
  • Documentation and presentation
  • Communication and Interpersonal skill — A business analyst should possess an excellent communication skill as they act as a bridge between the stakeholder and the client side.
  • Analytical and problem solving — This helps in interpreting business needs and choosing the best solution for a challenging business problem.
  • Cost analysing skill — Business analyst always fix the budgets for the project so he/she must be good at analysing the expenditure .
  • Good decision making and passionate towards to provide technical solutions — Since the main responsibility of a business analyst is take business related decision ,the decision should be technically and logically correct and should be good at decision making as the ideas will be carried out till the end of the project.
  • Programming languages — Business analyst should have programming language knowledge like R or python to easily carry out analysis fastly.
  • Process modeling , reporting and dashboarding
  • DataBase and SQL

CONCLUSION:

In depth knowledge in the domain area and to understand the analytical tools together with database management can lead to a promising career in Business analysis. Each and every firm is in need of Business analyst professionals.Sound knowledge of domain area and understanding of analytical tools and experience in database management can lead to a promising career in Business analysis. Business analyst professionals are required everywhere, from leading financial institutions to consultancies like Deloitte, E&Y, Walmart and online leader Amazon. Once a Business analyst has become an expert in his field, he can later enhance his career. Business Analysts have lots of alternatives to progress in their future career path, as there are excellent career opportunities available.

I assume that by reading this you may have had an overview of business analyst.

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