Business Analyst Ii Jobs

Job Purpose

The Business Analyst II is a resource with business experience developing requirements in support of an overall IT strategy. The Lead Business Analyst II understands, analyzes, and documents business problems and can translate business requirements into a technical solution and will perform at a hands-on, detailed level, as well as, at a leadership role.

Essential Functions

70%-Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis

• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language

15%-Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs

15% Allocation of the following:

• Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow
• Support and institutionalize best-practice methodologies as it relates to IT applications (change control/user acceptance testing/training/implementation methodologies)
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed
• The liaison between the business units, technology teams, and support teams

Experience

• Working from and developing scenarios and user requirements
• Experience gathering requirements for ERP or large package implementation or upgrade
• Practical experience of process/data/functional modeling techniques and an understanding of the use of structured techniques
• 3 to 5 years of work experience
• Experience in process mapping, with the ability to bring together diverse groups and opinions to agree on coherent solutions
• Experience in Business/Service Analysis in a large complex environment

Education

• Four years of College resulting in a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
• Experience using structured Methodologies best practices
• Understanding and knowledge of technical architectures
• Previous experience with enterprise-wide requirements definition
• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into the application and operational requirements

Supervisory Responsibilities

• No Supervisory Responsibility