Business Analyst

Technical/Functional Skills

• Understand the business process areas assigned and become a subject matter expert in the day-to-day operations and activities of those areas of responsibility

• Utilize business analysis skills to develop, recommend, and lead new processes and procedure

• Build and leverage relationships with internal business partners and external partners to deliver technology solutions

• Responsible for the capturing of business requirements for modules assigned

• Responsible for assisting the client in developing the use case for the initiative

• Responsible for the fit-gap and design of initiative assigned, which describe the functional design of the system, its business rules, reports, interfaces, enhancements, workflows and gap analysis

• Responsible for the system design and configuration of the applications in area of responsibility

• Responsible for the development of use cases, testing scenarios, and mock-ups/prototypes for initiatives assigned

• Create and update key documents as determined by the lead for assigned initiatives

• Provides quality assurance, testing and updates to test plans and script documents as needed

• Responsible for the successful and timely completion of assigned tasks

• Provide insights and recommendations from analysis and speak to impacts on the business

• Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner, gather and analyze information, develop alternative solutions, and work well in individual and group problem solving situations

• Be a subject matter expert on area of expertise including best practices and technology trends

• Partner with client and colleagues and develop strategic focus regarding the applications within their specific functional area

• Manage enhancement requests from users with a view of longer-term strategic vision of operating company goals

Roles & Responsibilities

• Experience working with Public Sector client is preferred

• Sound knowledge of Business Process Notations and UML

• Technical knowledge of SQL and Reports preferred

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to lead requirements-gathering sessions with relevant business members

• Ability to synthesize high-level concepts surrounding new work requests into a gap document and set of business requirements

• Ability to effectively present information and training in one-on-one and group situations to customers, clients, and other members of the organization

• Self-motivated, i nternally driven

• Must be able to analyze and evaluate existing or proposed systems to provide data processing and procedural enhancements

• Ability to analyze problems and create related solutions in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to work within the guidelines of a project management framework

• Clearly and concisely expresses professional opinions with supporting rationale

• Performs under stress or copes with frequent deadlines of interruptions without loss of efficiency or composure

• Ability to motivate others to work toward common organizational goals

• Adapts to both working alone, or as part of a larger team, for varying durations

• Comfortable making independent field-level decisions and interpretations of existing organizational policies and procedures