Business Analyst Jobs

Summary

Primary duties/responsibilities: Engages cross-functional project teams and works with business process owners to map, determine and translate business requirements into viable solutions. This includes responsibility for planning, directing and coordinating project resources from initiation through to implementation. Is a key player in mapping as-is state, gathering and documenting user requirements, analyzing information and designing/recommending future state of key business processes and work-flows.

Coordinates with business process owner, business stakeholders, and develop detailed roadmaps and project timelines/plans.

Effectively communicates with senior management and all key stakeholders regarding project deliverables, project status, risk identification/mitigation, issue management and budget spend.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions
• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.
• Performing user acceptance testing.
• Create and maintain accurate project plans
• Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
• Coordinates project tasks with designated project team members
• Operational and Financial analysis and modeling as needed
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential risks and devise contingency plans and mitigating controls

Qualifications:

• Demonstrates strategic, analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strong attention to detail

Required Skills:

• Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Thorough understanding of requirements gathering, testing and quality control
• A minimum of 3-5 years in Business Analyst or related field
• A history of leading and supporting successful projects

Minimum qualifications

• Ability to work with a geographically dispersed teams to achieve objectives.
• BA/BS in business or related field or MBA
• Previous experience with process mapping tools, i.e. Lucid Charts etc
• Previous experience with Project Management tools, i.e. Smartsheets, Jira etc
• Working knowledge of financial, accounting and distribution systems