Business Analyst

Project duration: approximately 11 months

Hours a week: 40

Work schedule: hybrid (the current standard schedule at FISA-OPA is alternating days on-site)

Work location - 5 Manhattan West, New York, NY Local ONLY F2F interview

Mode of interview - phone, virtual, and in person

Payrate: $60/hour on W2

FISA-OPA has two (2) vacancies for a Business and Technical Analyst. Under the direction of the FISAOPA project manager, with support as needed, this consultant will serve as a business and technical analyst

in the HR Payroll group of FISA-OPA. The Business Analyst will support the Payroll (PMS) and W2

Amendment (W2AM) applications.

Job Title:

Business Analyst – FISA Project

The primary functions of the business analyst will be:

• Analyze and document business requirements.

• Author functional specifications, review functional specifications with business owners for

approval, and review functional specifications with technical staff during transition to technical

design and coding phases of the project.

• Author technical specifications for interface and conversion software and review technical

specifications with staff during the transition to technical design and coding phases of the project.

• Construct additional reports as requested to supplement the predefined reporting capabilities of the

Payroll module. As needed, work with FISA-OPA report development staff to package and deploy

supplemental reports into a catalog available to authorized users.

• Investigate and resolve software issues and defects reported by business users and others.

• Work with technical analysts to research problems to find and implement solutions.

• Supplement the activities of the FISA-OPA Integrated System Test team as necessary. The analyst

will be expected to author test cases, execute test cases, and document the results.

• Supplement the activities of the end users by coordinating end user acceptance test activities or

performing user acceptance testing on their behalf, or both.

• Run simulations of the business event processing to ensure that software modifications have not

introduced errors into the processes.

Education:

• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technical/Business