Information Systems Leader

• Understand the business needs before defining the scope of the project.
• Work closely with stakeholders and technology partners to gather the requirements and propose solution options.
• Evaluate business processes, anticipate requirements, uncover areas for improvement, and implement technical solutions.
• Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies.
• Stay up to date on the latest industry trends, and IT innovations to modernize systems and improve user-experience.
• Conduct meetings and presentations to share ideas, findings, project progress and proactively raise challenges.
  

Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.

• Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications.
• Improve systems by studying current practices, designing modifications.
• Recommend controls by identifying challenges, writing improved procedures.
• Monitor functional requirements progress by tracking activity; resolving problems; publishing progress reports; recommending actions.
• Maintain user confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential and respect data privacy.
• Prepare technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Validate resource requirements and develop cost estimate models.
• Interpret, evaluate, and interrelate research data and develop integrated business analyses and projections for incorporation into strategic decision-making.
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly reviews and analyses of activities using operational metrics and reports.
• Suggest changes to senior management using analytics to support your recommendations. Actively participate in the implementation of approved changes.
• Create informative, actionable, and repeatable reporting that highlights relevant business trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Maintain business systems operations, documents, business user incidents and requests.
• Ensure that practices and processes exist and are standardized and repeatable. Ensure that these ones are continually improving and produce business cases to support team activities.
• Implement approved departmental policies, processes, procedures, and instructions to subordinates and monitor their adherence so that work is carried out in a controlled manner.
• Other duties, assignments and responsibilities might be assigned. ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE