Business Analyst Jobs

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The Business Analyst is responsible for writing requirements to formally document business requirements into SOR and or functional specifications off from the design document. The position requires proven experience in following industry standard business analysis techniques and methods to elicit and validate business requirements.

Effective planning and facilitation skills are critical to this role, including the ability to negotiate challenging differences of opinion between key stakeholders during meetings. Communication skills are essential in both written and spoken form, including the ability to use the appropriate forms at all levels of the organization.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
• Follow effective processes to verify and validate business requirements with functional and technical stakeholder before establishing projects baselines
• Develop functional specifications and system design specifications
• Deliver effective, informative, and well-organized presentations
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates and industry best practices
• Interface with vendor partners and design optimal solutions to integrate with existing business systems
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process models, use cases, scenarios, storyboards, business analysis, task and workflow analysis
• Serve as the conduit between the business community and the software development team through which requirements flow
• Review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution and verify that the business needs can be met with that solution
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver standard artifacts
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts and decompose high-level information into detailed requirements
• Work with functional leads to transform and develop new requirements into design and implementation specifications
• Define and document internal and external user interfaces and support system and data requirements clarification and definition.
• Execute requirements gathering, elicitation, and development to capture and document business needs
• Accurately estimate the business analysis efforts required for a project
• Work directly with and serve as the liaison between business users, technology teams, and support teams
• Provide significant contributions in the testing and debugging of new software or enhancements to existing software
• Assist in defining quality assurance testing strategy and identifying risks
• Ensure issues and defects are identified, tracked, reported, and resolved in a timely manner

EXPERIENCE

• End to end Supply Chain Management understanding preferred
• Experience using enterprise requirements elicitation and management tools and methodologies
• Experience with Agile delivery methods
• Knowledge of all phases of software development lifecycle including requirements analysis, design, development, testing (integration, user, and performance), implementation, and support
• Minimum of 5 years' direct experience in business analysis roles

SKILLS

• Must possess strong analytical, organizational and product management skills
• Effective facilitation skills are required to manage meetings effectively
• Must have a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into functional and operational requirements (visual and written)
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Effective business case development skills are required
• Ability to successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously is required
• Ability to communicate difficult sensitive information tactfully is required