Senior Enterprise Business Analyst

Job Title: Senior Enterprise Business Analyst

Job Summary

·         Works independently with business partners within the business function to align solutions with business strategies. Identifies and communicates business needs and translates these needs into understandable requirements. Determines if internal or external solutions or new solutions are needed.

·         Works with key technology and/or department analysts to determine if these solutions impact existing workflows or systems. Partners with appropriate resources to accurately prioritize, analyze, and document business processes. Provides input surrounding decisions for possible solutions. Identifies opportunities for improvement/enhancement and negotiates agreements and commitments between business and IT from requirements gathering through final implementation.

·         Responsible for more complex work and assignments typical of a senior business analyst.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

·         Acts as an expert in the business units supported, with a strong understanding of business capabilities.

·         Supports and contributes to the development of business strategy as a subject-matter expert.

·         Builds, maintains, and manages business relationships.

·         Educates IT and Operations teams on the direction of the business.

·         Analyzes business partners’ operations to identify strengths and weaknesses and determine opportunities to innovate and improve customer experience.

·         Understands and develops appropriate documentation to represent business requirements and meet business needs.

·         Understands the difference between a requirement and a desire or want.

·         Develops models to represent requirements, such as use cases, business process flows, and data flow diagrams.

·         Obtains, captures, and validates information from stakeholders using various analysis techniques.

·         Responsible for requirements management, approval, and traceability.

·         Participates in negotiation of agreements and commitments.

·         Facilitates communication between business units and IT from requirements through final implementation.

·         Makes recommendations for buy-versus-build decisions.

·         Maintains a current knowledge base of business and industry trends.

·         Leverages IT and VMO partnerships to bring solutions to supported business units and enhance enterprise capabilities.

·         Contributes to business ideation and concept development as required.

·         Works on multiple projects as a project team member and occasionally as a project leader.

·         Evaluates and identifies project complexity, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.

·         Participates in planning sessions with business units to improve business processes.

·         Understands, documents, and contributes to continuous improvement of business/IT value streams.

·         Serves as a value-stream subject-matter expert to IT and the business.

·         Ensures awareness of risk within their functional area and complies with all policies, procedures, laws, regulations, and risk limits.

·         Reports known violations to appropriate company authorities in a timely manner.

·         Performs other related duties as required.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

·         Financial sector experience

·         Agile certifications (CSM, CSPO, SAFe)

·         Certified Business Analysis