WestJet

Business Analyst

WestJet$70K — $95K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in relevant technical or business area
  • 5+ years in relevant technical or business-facing roles
  • ServiceNow Certified System Administrator preferred
  • ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist(s) preferred
  • Experience in enterprise governance or demand management
  • Background in large, complex organisations
  • Experience in workflow or digital transformation initiatives
  • Proven ability to influence and communicate with stakeholders at various levels

Responsibilities

  • Act as primary intake lead for new ServiceNow requests
  • Partner with stakeholders to identify business objectives and challenges
  • Evaluate incoming requests for strategic alignment and feasibility
  • Document and understand incoming demand before governance processes
  • Identify opportunities for project simplification and improvement
  • Lead discovery sessions and stakeholder interviews for comprehensive insights
  • Collaborate with Product Owners and Solution Architects to craft value-driven solutions

Benefits

  • Competitive total rewards package
  • Fun and friendly work culture
  • Travel privileges for employees and families from day one
  • Flexible savings and benefit programs to suit individual needs
Full Job Description
This position requires in-person collaboration up to five days a week. This arrangement is subject to change based on business requirements.

The Business Analyst serves as the front door to the ServiceNow capability portfolio, leading intake, discovery, demand assessment and business process analysis across a broad range of enterprise initiatives.

This role works closely with business stakeholders, Product Owners, platform leadership, solution architecture and governance forums to ensure opportunities are properly understood, evaluated and shaped before entering delivery roadmaps.

The successful candidate will possess deep ServiceNow knowledge, exceptional communication skills and strong business acumen. They must be comfortable engaging stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, facilitating discussions, challenging assumptions, identifying opportunities and translating business needs into actionable recommendations.

This role is critical in helping WestJet maximise the value of the ServiceNow platform by ensuring investments are aligned to business priorities, strategic outcomes and enterprise standards.

Key deliverables & responsibilities:
  • Act as the primary intake lead for new ServiceNow requests, opportunities and initiatives
  • Partner with stakeholders to understand business objectives, pain points and desired outcomes
  • Evaluate requests for strategic alignment, feasibility, business value and complexity
  • Ensure incoming demand is sufficiently understood and documented before entering governance or delivery processes
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, consolidate or improve requests before they become projects
  • Support prioritisation discussions by ensuring requests are evaluated consistently
  • Lead discovery sessions, workshops and stakeholder interviews
  • Analyse current-state business processes, workflows and operating models
  • Identify opportunities for automation, visibility, governance improvements and enhanced user experiences
  • Document business requirements, process maps, business cases and recommendations
  • Develop future-state process designs that align with organisational objectives and platform capabilities
  • Evaluate dependencies, risks and impacts associated with proposed initiatives
  • Leverage extensive ServiceNow experience to advise stakeholders on platform capabilities and best practices
  • Help business partners understand available options, trade-offs and implementation considerations
  • Promote standardisation, reuse and sustainable platform design principles
  • Collaborate with Product Owners and Solution Architects to shape solutions that deliver business value while maintaining platform integrity
  • Identify opportunities to extend existing capabilities before introducing new solutions


Experience & qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in relevant technical or business-related area
  • 5+ years in relevant technical or business facing teams
  • ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA) preferred
  • ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist certification(s) preferred
  • Experience supporting enterprise governance, portfolio management or demand management functions
  • Experience within large, complex organisations
  • Experience supporting workflow transformation, digital transformation or service management initiatives
  • Experience working with executive governance forums and leadership teams.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Passion for technology, process analysis and improvement
  • High degree of confidence while influencing stakeholders outside of their team
  • Proven track record to communicate both in business and technical fields, ability to translate between both


The benefits of being a WestJetter:

WestJet provides all WestJetters with a competitive total rewards package. On top of that, we offer:

  • A fun and friendly culture with colleagues who work together to win
  • Travel privileges for you and your family, effective from your start date
  • Savings and Benefit programs that are flexible to meet your specific needs


Think we're a great fit? Apply now!

About WestJet

WestJet is a Canadian airline founded in 1996. It began as a low-cost alternative to the country's competing major airlines. WestJet provides scheduled and charter air service to more than 100 destinations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. WestJet is currently the second-largest Canadian air carrier, behind Air Canada, operating an average of 777 flights and carrying over 66,130 passengers per day. WestJet is a public company with more than 14,000 employees, and is not part of any airline alliance. It operates three variants of the Boeing 737 Next Generation family, as well as Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
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