Lead Business Analyst (Japanese Proficiency)

As a Lead Business Analyst, you will play a key role within the Business Analysis competency, partnering with business and technology stakeholders to drive data-driven decision making, process optimization, and successful delivery of analytics solutions. You will lead requirements management activities, facilitate collaboration across cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, and translate complex business needs into scalable Power BI solutions that create measurable value for procurement and finance organizations. What You'll Be Doing: Business Analysis & Stakeholder Management Lead requirements elicitation workshops and discovery sessions with procurement leaders, category managers, finance controllers, IT teams, and data owners. Analyze and document current-state and future-state business processes. Contribute to and drive continuous process improvement initiatives aligned with evolving business needs within the procurement function. Facilitate alignment between business and technical stakeholders, ensuring a common understanding of project objectives and requirements. Act as the primary liaison between business users, project teams, and technical delivery teams. Solution Definition & Documentation Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications for Power BI dashboards and analytics solutions. Define data model expectations, calculation logic, KPIs, business rules, visualizations, user stories, and user interaction requirements. Produce and