Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: New Haven, CT(Onsite)
Duration:Full-time
Job Description:
The Business Analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates
the needs of business stakeholders. This includes understanding, documenting,
and evaluating business processes through interviewing stakeholders. The
Business Analyst elicits, gathers compiles and documents user requirements and
translates them into functional requirements for technology solutions with an
eye to improving processes and systems, enhancing their sustainability, and
delivering maximum return on investment. The Business Analyst must have a
thorough understanding of the business, functional, and technical aspects of
the applications used within the portfolio they support.
Core Responsibilities
• Proven leadership in engaging the business and IT
partnerships
• Proven ability to communicate (written and verbal) with
stakeholders at all levels.
• Conduct interviews to elicit, analyze and make
recommendations regarding user requirements via workshops, questionnaires,
surveys, site visits, process maps, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios,
and other methods.
• Conduct investigations for strategy studies, business
requirements specifications and feasibility studies.
• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness,
consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Translate business requirements into functional
requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/the project
team.
• Document and communicate the results of analysis performed.
• Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and
concisely write requirements specifications.
• Create and evaluate process models/maps, specifications,
diagrams, and charts to provide direction to anticipate requirements, uncover
areas for improvement, and elicit requirements for change.
• Evaluate and map business processes
• Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop
optimization strategies.
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business
requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly
interpreted.
• On-Call and/or after-hours work required.
Skills Qualifications
Required:
• Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements
specifications in both technical and user-friendly language
• Ability to elicit, document and translate business
requirements of packaged solutions
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements
analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with
them to determine acceptable solutions
• Excellent documentation skills
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving
presentations
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management
skills
• Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the
ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required
• Ability to research and understand packaged solution
upgrades both minor and major. Translates the technical upgrade documentation
into business terms the end-user can understand to enable prioritization and
decision making. Makes recommendations on these upgrades
• Experience in in Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid environments
Education
Required:
• BS or BA with emphasis in computer science, information
systems or business administration
• 5-7 years related work experience as a business analyst
Preferred:
• Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA)
and/or Certified Business Analysis professions (CBAP) preferred
• Hexures Firelight eApplications experience
