Business Analyst with Retail banking Experience

Job Title: BA with Core Banking
Location: ISELIN, NJ

The Senior Business Analyst Consultant will partner with Business and Technology teams to deliver Provident Bank's strategic and transformational projects. This role will be responsible for understanding business and customer needs and ensuring technical solutions meet those needs.

MAJOR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act as a liaison between business units, IT and vendors.
• Facilitate and lead requirement elicitation sessions and workshops with business and IT partners to gather, document and align on business requirements.
• Evaluate business processes to interpret requirements and uncover opportunities for improvement.
• Document detailed current and future state process flow diagrams.
• Create user interface designs and wireframes to mimic actual user experience on a digital platform.
• Ensure design and technical solutions meet business/product needs and requirements.
• Document and own business requirements (BRD), non-functional requirements and use cases.
• Communicate risks and issues in a timely manner.
• Work with developers to successfully implement design into products.
• Understand and analyze data to gather/extract requirements.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture team to ensure business requirements are met and evaluated for technical impact.
• Work closely with QA testers to ensure successful planning of test strategy and test case execution.
• Provide SME support and clarify requirements related queries to development and QA teams.
• Analyze QA and UAT issues/defects.
• Collaborate with project manager throughout the project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery.
• Manage competing priorities.

SKILLS AND TRAINING:

• Expertise in gathering, analyzing and documenting requirements for core banking application conversions, including data migration, integrations, system enhancements, reports and extracts.
• Strong understanding of core banking modules such as Deposits, Loans, Payments, and core ancillary systems is highly preferred.
• Prior experience in Banking and core banking conversions is a huge plus.
• Strong knowledge of full SDLC and SLC.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
• Excellent oral and written skills.
• Experience working with Managed Services Providers in an onshore-offshore model.
• Creative and analytical problem solving skills.
• Proficiency in creating detailed BA artifacts and giving presentations.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio.
• Experience using Agile development tools such as ServiceNow and/or JIRA.
• A track record of following through on commitments.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• A history of leading and supporting successful projects.
• Professional demeanor and ability to interact comfortably with all levels of staff, vendors and third parties.
• Experience in cross-organizational collaboration and integration.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and relationship management.
• Superior attention to detail.
• Strong business acumen.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong leadership skills along with the ability to develop and execute on strategy.
• Must be bondable.

EDUCATION:

A bachelor's degree in business or related field.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of 8 years' experience in Business Analysis.
• Minimum 10 years' experience in IT.