Business Analyst

Position Type:

• Contract
• Hybrid - 3 days in office

• Bachelors of Science or Arts Degree.
• 3+ years experience working with systems.
• 3+ years experience with an SDLC, system development methodologies and requirements gathering and including business process mapping.
• Previous Business Analysis experience.
• Ability to translate business needs into system specifications, familiar with agile framework and processes-Epic, Feature and Story, creation processes.
• Experience working with project teams from project initiation to closing.
• Excellent critical thinking, process analysis and mapping skills (Visio, Lucid).
• Strong collaboration, influencing, and listening skills.
• Good oral and verbal communication skills.

• PMI-PBA or CBAP (in good standing) or CAPM (in good standing).
• Agile Practice Certification - CSM or AAC.
• Building or Construction experience.

• Serve as the liaison between the business and IT departments.
• Detail-oriented and highly innovative to translate the business needs to IT solutions, and vice versa, with current programs, projects, and initiatives.
• Responsibilities include analysis and assessment needed for the identification of system requirements and functional definition of planned system changes within an application or in considering a new technology solution.
• Works with the project manager, the business, and IT Teams to identify and implement system solutions that support more efficient processes within a system as well as any areas that may impact the system performance.

• IT Strategy and Planning:

• Demonstrates business and system expertise by problem solving, providing analysis and system solution options, functional specifications, executes project tasks.
• Assists with the identification, analysis and resolution of issues of applications issues.
• Provides analysis needed to support new software implementation and enhancement business cases.

• User Experience Analysis:

• Creates project level documentation for current.
  state and future state solution, responsible for meeting notes, key decisions and risks.
• Documents requirements for business requirement and design specifications
  Works effectively within an agile framework, assisting in sprint planning, creating user stories and acceptance criteria; provide testing support and reporting support.
• Provides documentation for business requirements and design specifications.

• Requirements Elicitation:

• Facilitates requirements gathering sessions with different areas of the business to identify and solution for end-to-end solutions by incorporating business processes, re-engineering options, or new system functionality or capability.

• Requirements Definition and Management:

• Develops functional, reporting, security, technical requirements for the business groups and work closely with developers on design and testing.
• Works closely with developers on the design, development and testing of system or reporting requirements. Works closing with QA to support testing.

• Quality Assurance:

• Manages and coordinates project related tasks and activities and ensure completion timely to meet due dates.
• Manages small project teams/projects as needed.
• Can work with QA or act as unit tester for new functions and features to ensure business needs are met.
• Works with the entire project team (project manager, quality assurance, and technical team) on the needed project or deployment support.
• Acts as liaison between IT and the business groups.

• Project Analysis:

• Adept at conducting analysis into project-related issues and products.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and drive solutions.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies.
• Organize and disseminate complex information to stakeholders.
• Identify and resolve constraints, risk, issues and key decisions.
• Clearly communicate project risks and issues to stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration, influencing, and listening skills.
• Can conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Reacts to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

• Create clear and concise documentation or information, including issue, risk & decision logs and status reports.
• Assisting the PM or when leading small project teams.