Job Description

At Extra Space Storage, what matters to you, matters to us! Join a company that cares about you.  

It is an exciting time to be at Extra Space. We have been featured on multiple "Best Places to Work" awards, including Forbes and Glassdoor. We’re an S&P 500 company that hasn’t stopped growing since our founding in 1977. Today we are leading the self-storage industry in more ways than one, but in order to maintain this lead, we need exceptionally motivated, capable, and driven people like you. Self-storage is our product, helping people is our passion. Come grow with the largest self-storage company in the world and find out why so many of our employees recommend us as a great place to work. 

Job Summary 

At Extra Space, business analysis is the practice of enabling change in the enterprise by defining needs and analyzing potential and effectiveness of products/solutions that deliver value to stakeholders. Business analysis enables the company to articulate needs and the rationale for change, and to design and describe solutions that can deliver value. 

Product Analysts are responsible for discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information from a variety of sources within an enterprise, including tools, processes, documentation, and stakeholders. The Sr. Product Analyst is responsible for understanding and expressing the actual needs of stakeholders-which frequently involves investigating and clarifying their expressed desires-in order to determine underlying issues and causes. Sr. Product Analysts play a role in aligning the designed and delivered solutions with the needs of stakeholders.  Within the Product team, the analyst works very closely with Product Manager(s), and as a liaison between business Process Owners/Stakeholders and the Software Engineering group to accomplish desired product outcomes. 

 

Primary Responsibilities 

  • Consult with Business Owners/Stakeholders to gather information about system needs, objectives, functions, and features that are aligned to desired business/customer outcomes. 

  • Analyze, refine, and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, inputs and outputs. 

  • Understand the departments systems and process structures to recommend solutions to requested initiatives. 

  • Consult with Stakeholders and Developers to manage requests from initiation to successful production implementation. 

  • Document and maintain business requirements and drives functional specifications and testingplans. 

  • Work with product managers, as needed, to analyze and estimate feasibility, costs and other factors relevant for a products success. 

  • Understand core agile principals and help development teams work within agile frameworks to maintain existing functionality and grow products aligned with business priorities.  

  • Coordinate and demo changes to the business stakeholders for training to be developed. 

  • Research and evaluate possible tools and systems to assist programming/developing solutions. 

  • Monitor performance and adoption of programs and systems after implementation. 

 

 

Job Specifications 

  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical writing skills and procedures, or governmental regulations. 

  • Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers. 

  • Desired experience implementing or supporting ERP systems (such as Dynamics AX, SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards); AX Preferred. 

  • Experience with business tool administration (security, workflows, configurations). 

  • Domain knowledge of accounting and finance principles. 

  • Preferred experience with Microsoft SQL Server and Business Intelligence (SSAS, SSRS, SSIS) or similar technologies. 

  • Preferred experience with SharePoint and Salesforce.com. 

 

 

Education and Experience 

  • Bachelor's Degree (B. A.) from four-year College or University in Information Systems, Business Management, Computer Science, or in a related field 

  • 4-6 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience 

 

Working Conditions/Physical Demands 

Performs sedentary work in an office environment with limited lifting (less than 10 pounds) or walking required. Close visual acuity required to perform work at computer terminal. No exposure to adverse environmental conditions. Requires repetitive typing motion, talking, hearing, grasping and feeling.  

 

Disclaimer 

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.  

We pride ourselves on hiring top talent and provide the following benefits and more: 

  • Well defined career paths 

  • Great work/life balance and hybrid work schedule 

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits 

  • Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Spending (FSA) 

  • Company paid Life, AD&D, and Short- & Long-Term Disability 

  • 401K with company match after 90 days of service 

  • Holiday pay and paid time off 

  • Extensive wellness program and various employee discount programs 

  • Personal health advocate 

  • On-site fitness center 

  • Free soda, coffee, and snacks all day every day and much, much more! 

 

Application Instructions

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