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Position Summary:
The Business Analyst leads key activities including eliciting, analyzing, validating and documenting business, organizational, and / or Information Technology (IT) operational requirements, and related business rules to determine best solutions to client business needs, plans, and objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Working closely with the Project Manager to define and execute agreed upon Business Analyst deliverables and scope for assigned projects;
- Conducting business analysis and research to determine the integration of the evolving business requirements that will fulfil user needs and increase the efficiency and efficacy of the programs, including:
- Liaising with business and technology clients to facilitate the development of the business requirements into solutions,
- Organizing and facilitating requirements gathering sessions with project stakeholders, team members, and end users,
- Developing business requirements documentation such as User Stories and Use Cases, and
- Conducting requirements review walkthrough sessions;
- Developing and establishing partnerships with lines of business in order to become fully knowledgeable with their business support systems, issues and processes, including:
- Identifying current and future needs and developing business plans and strategies for their implementation,
- Working closely with clients and project stakeholders to recommend the best solution(s) to meet the client business needs, and
- Determining the feasibility of business requirements and alignment to business needs; and
- Conducting research, analysis, and testing of new business solutions for possible client use by evaluating new products for their potential to address business requirements, keeping up with current trends, participating in information sessions / seminars, and meeting with manufacturers and service providers.
Required Education & Experience:
- Experience providing analysis, advice, and recommendations related to the implementation of new technologies or applications;
- Experience working with BABOK methodology;
- College diploma and six (6) years of experience**
- High school diploma and seven (7) years of experience**
- Experience in the review, development, and application of business process models such as use cases, process maps, and workflow diagrams.
- Four (4) years of experience working on projects in an Information Management (IM) / Information Technology (IT) environment with technical and non-technical stakeholders in which they were analyzing requirements, liaising with business and technical stakeholders, leading requirement elicitation working sessions, and developing and presenting recommendations / solutions to business partners and senior management;
- Undergraduate degree and four (4) years of experience**
- Experience with providing presentations to managers and / or senior Executives; and
- Experience working with Agile methodology.
- Experience gathering requirements for projects;
- Experience working with BABOK methodology;
- Experience working with the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC);