Business Analyst

Job Description

Works collaboratively with clients and stakeholders - both external and internal to the company - to research and elicit, analyze, validate and document business requirements, and to ensure that those requirements clearly reflect true business needs, correctly representing all stakeholders. Translates business needs into system/ application requirements and project components to help determine solutions to business problems. Assists team members in producing functional requirements for tool development. Proactively identifies and manages changes to requirements and identify risks for the company s clients. Effectively manages client s expectations. Applies industry and information technology expertise to support proposals, feasibility studies, implementations and new business development.Responsibilities:

• Through self-directed activities act as a liaison between clients and technical groups, using superior communication skills to elicit, document, analyze and validate requirements.
• Apply industry-leading expertise to recommend and coordinate the development, enhancement, and maintenance of a clients business systems, processes, and products using high-maturity methods, processes and tools.
• Combine industry expertise with an advanced understanding of information technology to develop innovative business solutions.
• Influence the strategic direction of clients and their industry.
• Lead analysis teams on large projects.
• Lead requirements management and change management processes.
• Direct development of visualization, and user experience elements of solution design.
• Develop and maintain internal and external relationships to manage scope, schedule, budgets and expectations.
• Lead business studies and present study results to the company and client senior management. Lead proposals, feasibility studies, and new business development activities.
• Leverage industry knowledge and client relationships to assess the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment and to identify new business opportunities. Define and direct process improvement activities within the company and training of peers and clients.

Education and Experience Required:

• Typically a Bachelors or Master degree in a technical or business discipline or equivalent experience and a minimum of 10 years of related experience.
• Recommended: IIBA CBAP& #8482; (or equivalent) certification obtained.
• Ideally, recognized industry- certification.

Knowledge and Skills:

• More than 10 years experience.
• Essential: requirements elicitation via interviewing, workshop facilitation, survey design and execution; statistical analysis; requirements determination using structured techniques for documentation, analysis, evaluation/ validation; decomposition of high-level information into details; abstracting low-level information; distinguishing requests vs needs; distinguishing requirements vs. solutions; classifying/ prioritizing requirements; OO techniques using UML models; ambiguity analysis, ensuring consistent understanding across users, designers and testers; business process modeling current/ future state processes; business rules modeling; defining and managing scope and client expectations, requirements change management and traceability; visualization modeling; identifying and mitigating risks; applying creativity/ innovation to solving complex problems; building relationships and working collaboratively; developing and communicating a vision for project/ system; providing thought leadership; mentoring; effective verbal/ written communication; preparing and delivering effective presentations; experience in one or more industry domains; developing structured user manuals and training; develop and executing acceptance test plans.
• Specialized: Function Point counting.

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Keyskills :
ew business business rules new business development customer relations business requirements business process