Senior Business Analyst

Kansas City, MO / Hybrid 4 Days Onsite / 110-118k + Bonus

This position works within a larger Project Team focusing on replacing and enhancing business-critical systems and primary business processes. This position collaborates heavily with business stakeholders, IT teams, and technology partners to understand, document, validate, test, and train on business process transformation as well as build functional requirements in support of custom software development.

Primary Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

• Researches, identifies, and documents current business process functions (AS IS) and partners with business stakeholders to facilitate improvement and transformation of business processes (TO BE) with an end goal of implementing a modern software platform supporting key business processes
• Partners with business unit personnel at multiple locations to understand business needs and translate those needs into detailed business process documentation, serving as a baseline for the creation of functional requirements for software development
• Collaborates closely with IT teams and technology partners to refine and validate functional requirements, and transition them into technical requirements for software development
• Documents, in partnership with business stakeholders, acceptance criteria and test cases for each requirement
• Tests the delivered developments to ensure each requirement aligns with the requested capabilities and successfully passes the acceptance criteria or provides feedback on why the tests failed
• Creates regression testing documentation and shares system processes with QA teams to enable development of automated regression tests
• Gains a robust understanding of company business concepts and processes to support efficient development of functional and system requirements
• Builds, organizes, and maintains logical linking of functional requirements as mapped to business processes
• Sets up systems with proper master data and configurations to enable system capabilities as needed to run the business
• Collaborates with business process teams to translate developed functionality into real-world application through training and documentation

Experience

• 5+ (plus) years of strong operational experience in financial or trading systems and a successful history of project plan completion
• Experience analyzing, implementing and supporting enterprise reporting architectures and related technologies
• Experience in participating in cross-functional project teams environment; ability to perform in various roles from individual contributor to a leadership role; ability to contribute to planning, organization and managing of project teams using a structured delivery methodology
• Experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other business organizations; successful experience in working with diverse groups of people in a problem-solving environment
• Experience with functional and technical aspects of major enterprise business systems and related technologies