Business Analyst

JOB DESCRIPTION | Sr. Business Analyst

Location: New Haven, CT

Job Title: Sr. Business Analyst 

Duration: 6-12 months (Contract to Hire) on W2

The Insurance client is looking for a Sr. Business Analyst who can provide production support to our existing and future ETL environments. They perform data analysis, data mapping, and data visualization. They work with the programming and architecture staff in designing solutions based on functional requirements including conducting gap analysis. The Senior Business Systems Analyst must have an advanced understanding off the business, functional, and technical aspects of both the business processes and the systems used within the portfolio they support including integrations points and impacts to other business units/systems. Experience in Finance, SAP (S4 Hana), and Tableau.

Core Responsibilities

·        Evaluate business processes anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.

·        Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.

·        Conducts data gathering and analysis to develop business requirements and assist in identifying business priorities and recommended timelines.

·        Performs data mapping and data analysis. Creates data mapping and data visualization documents.

·        Prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.

·        Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders.

·        Deliver precise functional specifications to include functional hierarchy, workflow, business rules, interface design and definitions, outstanding issues, data analysis, and data mapping to clients and development staff.

·        Conduct gap analysis between application and stated customer requirements and collaborate with Architects and Developers to estimate project impact.

·        Prepare effort estimation including researching and estimating costs of upgrades and relevance of vendor packages.

·        Evaluate release notes for vendor products. Determine impact to current business processes and assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for enhancements and revised processes.

·        Perform requirements analysis. Document and Communicate the results of the analysis.

·        Translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers, project team and business owner(s).

Skills Qualifications

·        7-10 years of relevant experience in data warehousing, business intelligence tools, and data analysis.

·        SAP (S4 Hana) and Tableau Mandatory

·        Technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and APIs

·        Data analysis skills including ability to perform intermediate to advanced SQL queries

·        Experience in scripting

·        Competency in Microsoft applications including Visio, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Advanced skill in Excel including formulas, pivot tables, vlookup, and macros.

·        Understanding of REST and SOAP Web Service and how to use SoapUI, REST API clients

·        Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) and/or Certified Business Analysis professions (CBAP) preferred