Business Analyst

Role Summary

The overall objective of the senior business analyst (BA) is to lead the business analysis efforts for company IT projects, especially complex initiatives, using the established business analysis guidelines at ABC Supply. The senior BA may also be involved in project management activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Direct business analysis effort for complex projects/programs for 3rd party vendor implementations and integrations.
• Ability to create current state and future state process flows, solicit clear and succinct requirements, map data, and create test cases from the requirements.
• Adaptable to changes as we migrate to new templates and processes to streamline the BA artifacts.
• Experience creating user stories for new technology/software projects.
• Experience partnering with enterprise architects, BRMs, AOs, PMs, and/or solution architects.
• Ability to work with business sponsors to elicit requirements and ensure requirements can be developed in the 3rd party product.

• For waterfall projects, document functional and non-functional requirements according to standard templates.
• For Agile projects, document all user requirements, functional and non-functional requirements clearly in the agreed upon user story format.
• Lead and facilitate ongoing requirement or user story prioritization.
• Keen ability to read the room and command the attention of all stakeholders in the meeting.
• Working with the enterprise architect and/or solution architect, provide research and analysis to support the selection of business application software required to support business requirements.

• Ability to be sole BA on a project and handle one large project or multiple small to medium projects at one time.

• The senior BA may be responsible for project management on assigned projects.

• Coordinate the work effort of a project with assigned resources.
• Highlight project issues and project risks that could cause the project to not meet expectations.
• Own UAT, manage the timeline and meetings; develop all user test cases and acceptance criteria with business sponsor.
• Ensure all documentation is stored in Confluence and complete and up to date.

MENTORING AND TRAINING OF OTHER BUSINESS ANALYSTS

• The senior BA may be responsible to mentor and direct/train new business analysts.
• May be assigned as Lead Business Analyst on larger projects and direct the work of additional business analysts on the same project.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university in Information Systems, Accounting, Business Management, Project Management or related degree
• Experience: 5-7 years Professional experience/certification in business analysis preferred

KEY COMPETENCIES/SKILLS

• Excellent written/verbal communication, facilitation and presentation skills
• Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and resolve conflicts among project stakeholders
• High level of emotional intelligence needed
• Experience developing complex, integrated business requirements for information technology projects
• Leadership skills, to create a collaborative environment an influence people to move toward a common goal
• Listening skills, to understand what people say and observe when there are additional areas to explore that may not initially be vocalized
• Solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications: Project, Visio, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Ability to learn, understand and apply new technologies
• Ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to deal with rapidly changing information
• Ability to effectively work independently and across teams, functions and departments.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Solid understanding of business analysis tools and techniques and ability to choose the appropriate tools for a given project
• Knowledge of SDLC and/or ITIL
• Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT/TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, and hear; the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Travel required: as required.

Role Expectations

The Business Analysts are expected to be onsite in Beloit on Tuesday's for in-person sessions and onsite additional times as needed based on project/responsibilities assigned. These expectations may change based on ABC Supply's policies and procedures.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying the position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations. Nothing in this job description creates a contract of employment in any way for any person. All employees hired by ABC Supply Co., Inc. are employees at will and the Company reserves the right to terminate employees at any time for any reason or no reason at all.

Required Skills : Jira, UAT, 3rd Party Vendor Integrations, Future State Process Flow Experience Contract to hire, growing company, great pay rate
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :Contract to hire, growing company, great pay rate
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :Yes
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship :Yes
Interview times set :Yes
Type of project :Assessment/Analysis
Master Job Title :Bus. Analyst: Functional
Branch Code :Chicago