Business Analyst / Internal Consultant

• Title: Business Analyst (internal consultant profile)
• Level: Early-career generalist who asks great questions and drives clarity across messy, legacy environments
• Compensation: $90–130K base 5% bonus
• Location: Stamford, CT area preferred; hybrid listed as 2–3 days but realistically 0–1 day in office most weeks
• Employment type: Full-time preferred over contractors

What you’ll do day to day

• Partner with legacy system SMEs to extract and document critical knowledge, especially the homegrown Powerhouse 4GL ERP that lacks documentation
• Map current-state processes across plants, tickets, and systems and propose future-state operating models
• Support major transformation efforts: ERP modernization or replacement, standardizing ticketing, and global IT centralization
• Facilitate discovery sessions, synthesize findings, and communicate with executives and business-unit IT
• Help prioritize and track initiatives alongside an IT project manager

Must-haves

• Consultant mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, great at asking questions, framing problems, and structuring work
• Strong curiosity, initiative, and follow-through
• Excellent written documentation and process mapping skills
• Executive presence and clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfort context-switching across domains: apps, data, infrastructure, operations

Nice-to-haves

• 0–3 years experience, ideally including 1 year at a consulting firm
• Exposure to manufacturing, legacy systems, or IT operating model work
• Familiarity with BA artifacts and light Agile practices, without being siloed into “classic BA” work
• Interest in one or more of: internal product teams, data and visualization, or tech chief of staff workstreams

Work setup and comp

• Base: $90–130K
• Bonus: 5%
• Hybrid: published as 2–3 days, practically 0–1 most weeks
• High-visibility role with frequent executive interaction

Team structure you’ll join

• Reports to: IT executive leading software and data
• Peer/close partner: newly hired IT Project Manager
• Counterpart org: Infrastructure and Security led by a separate leader, plus a global infrastructure manager
• Interfaces with: business-unit IT across US and Europe and the executive team
• Context: company is centralizing IT globally after significant M&A; legacy ERP owner retires in ~17 months

Growth paths from this seat

• Classic BA on an internal scrum team as the product org builds out
• Data visualization and Power BI-focused path
• Technology Chief of Staff and special projects generalist path