Business Analyst

Role Summary

More importantly, they are a critical member of our client's PMO team, providing collaborative guidance and support to the cross functional teams throughout the end-to-end project delivery cycle.

• You will work with business users to define and document business cases for IT project requests, including clear definition of business needs, alignment to strategic objectives, benefits, and KPIs.
• You will form and effectively lead cross-functional teams across multiple business processes in partnership with the PMO.
• You will plan, lead, and execute discovery meeting targeted with gathering requirements from a diverse population of business users.
• You will work with cross functional customers to understand their business needs and how emerging needs may impact established product or operational roadmaps.
• You will collect, analyze, data and documents to augment and integrate requirements from multiple process owners.
• You will perform impact analyses when project change requests are initiated by your business users.
• You will perform cost/benefit analyses and business process re-engineering activities (workflow diagraming, gap analysis, etc.) where required.
• You will prepare cost/benefit analyses for potential solutions to address business needs.
• You will influence, negotiate, and act as a change agent with a diverse audience for complex process improvements.
• You will partner with the PMO to develop strategies for improving operational efficiency at every stage of the project.
• You will collaborate with internal teams, business stakeholders, and external partners daily!
• You will utilize data analysis tools to analyze trends and identify opportunities.
• You will provide guidance and support to other business analysts on the team to establish a BA COE.
• You will provide analytical services as needed for enhancement/maintenance projects.
• You will draw on collective knowledge of project management to diagnose problems, design effective solutions, and accelerate success.
• You will conduct business requirements review, coordinate testing schedules, and assists in the preparation of test scripts for user acceptance testing.
• You will participate in feasibility studies, vendor selections, and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders.
• You will support the transition from traditional documentation standards to evolving data and information management standards by entering and modifying process data to fit the standards.
• Coordinates and conducts reviews, assessments, and audits of business process documentation, as required.
• You will develop and maintain tools, templates, standards, and reports to support Business Analyst functions.

• 7+ years experience working in the U.S.
• Able to pass a background check
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience leading discovery sessions where you extract and translate users’ requests into effective, functional/non-functional, and technical specifications, objective requirements, and fully qualified user stories.
• 4+ experience executing progressively more complex business analyses within an information technology environment including scope definition, requirements gathering, performing cost/benefit analysis on varying solutions, and business process re-engineering.
• Demonstrated experience with a variety of research and analysis techniques, ideally including a mix of both quantitative and qualitative methods for understanding and documenting end-user and business owner requirements and the conversion to fully qualified user stories.
• Strong ability to lead targeted discovery sessions with business users.
• Demonstrated ability to support and participate in cross-functional, cross organizational, work groups to implement projects, programs and support positive organizational change.
• Working knowledge of various software development frameworks (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, SAFe, and Kanban).
• Proficient in data analysis and reporting tools. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
• Knowledge of project management principles and best practices.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the industry standard Business Analyst best practices (e.g., IIBA BABOK).
• Ability to apply financial concepts such as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) in practice.
• Experience developing traceability matrixes from requirements and assisting with user acceptance testing.