Business Systems Analyst Jobs

The Business Systems Analyst’s (BSA) primary responsibility is to translate business and system needs into requirements for development teams. They will be responsible for identifying/gathering, analyzing, documenting, validating, and prioritizing the requirements, acting as a liaison between stakeholders and development teams. They understand the vision of the product to be developed, documents ideas into concrete requirements, and acts as a point of contact for any clarification regarding deliverables.

Essential Functions

• Understand and help project managers and/or product/program owners create business cases by making sure all high-level requirements are listed in the project scope.

• Liaise between assigned business units and IT teams to align the demands and critical priorities between these two groups.

• Conduct cost-benefit analyses to justify the feasibility of proposed solutions.

• Gather, validate, analyze, document, and prioritize requirements from key stakeholders and SME’s.

• Gather by using requirement elicitation techniques like workshops and focus groups.

• Validate by cross-referencing requirements with other stakeholders, to achieve consensus before the solution is built.

• Document by creating user stories and breaking them down into functional and non-functional requirements.

• Prioritize by working with product/program owners.

• Maintain and update documentation at regular intervals.

• Recommend workarounds, value additions, and remove solution bottlenecks for stakeholders.

• Aid in development and testing of the product.

• Act as intermediary between customer and development team.

• Prepare end-user documentation.

Competencies

• Technical and business domain knowledge.

• Basic knowledge of databases and IT infrastructures.

• Knowledge of technology project risks and strategies for managing/mitigating them.

• Knowledge of system development life cycle, data transformations, and testing strategies.

• Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.

• Problem-solving and analytical thinking.

• Adept at business process documentation and presenting findings.

• Self-motivated and directed.

• Strong customer service orientation.

• Detail oriented.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, or management systems

• 3-5 years of related work experience