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Sr. Business Analyst Finance
Summary
We are seeking a seasoned Sr. Business Analyst to join our team, working remotely from anywhere across the nation. As a key liaison among stakeholders, you will play a vital role in eliciting, analyzing, communicating, and validating requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and information systems. Your primary objective will be to understand the business challenges and opportunities within the context of requirements, ultimately recommending solutions to help the organization achieve its goals.
Responsibilities
- Requirements Gathering:
- Prepare and conduct requirements elicitation sessions using various techniques including brainstorming, interviews, surveys, and prototyping;
- Document and validate the elicitation results to ensure alignment with the project team’s understanding.
- Requirements Analysis:
- Collaborate with the Project Team to prioritize the requirements and agree on assumptions and constraints;
- Organize, model, and specify requirements with the appropriate level of detail, considering complexity, risk, and audience.
- Requirements Management & Communication:
- Write clear and concise requirement specifications according to standard templates;
- Decompose high-level requirements into functional and nonfunctional, suitable for use by internal project team members;
- Communicate requirements effectively to ensure a shared understanding among team members.
- Solution Assessment & Validation:
- Evaluate proposed solutions to ensure alignment with requirements and maximize value;
- Define requirements for transitioning from existing solutions to new ones.
Requirements
- Bachelor s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio).
- Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps.
- Knowledge of defect tracking processes and tools.
- Ability to work collaboratively and consult effectively with employees at all levels.
- General understanding of business and IT systems.
- Strong attention to detail, motivation, and initiative.
- Excellent interviewing, listening, observation, and oral communication skills.
- Analytical, facilitation, organizational, and writing skills.
- Interpersonal skills for negotiation and conflict resolution.
- Proficiency in modeling requirements information.
- Effective time management skills.
- Minimum 5 to 10 years of Business Analysis experience in a development environment.
- Experience in developing user-based, GUI, and Web-based applications.
- Understanding of product management concepts and project management methodologies.
- Proficiency in structured and object-oriented analysis techniques.
- Proven experience in operational business process improvement.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and decision-support tools.
Preferred
- Experience with financial systems or in the Financial Services or Accounting industry.
