Business Analyst (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a Business Analyst for our client in Plano, TX. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Summary:

• The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for reviewing assigned business processes from end-to-end and responsibilities will include a full range of activities from leading small to mid-size projects to assisting other project managers on larger more complex projects related to operational business functions.
• The focus of this position is to work closely within the business units and gain an in-depth understanding of our customer's business requirements, creating agile user stories, documenting acceptance criteria, coordination with Project Management and preparing various project documentations.

Responsibilities:

• Provide project level analysis – producing required project analysis documentation (business requirements, scope matrix, use cases, sequence diagrams, future state proposals, UAT plan)
• Partner closely with the Line of Business to gather requirements, acceptance criteria and establish proper user stories in JIRA
• Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements and provide necessary guidance to testers during QA process
• Identify improvement opportunities (proactive and reactive)
• Elicit and clearly document business and systems requirements
• Assess business process and system inefficiencies
• Demonstrated fluency in business processes and process differentiation
• Ability to analyze and synthesize business requirements, including recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes
• Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders
• Serve as a liaison between Operations and IT to understand and gather business requirements needed for system modifications, enhancement, and implementations
• Create and maintain issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules, project summaries and updates.
• Create and maintain project schedules by developing project plans and specifications, estimating time and resources, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases of the project lifecycle, providing timely reporting of issues that impact project progress, coordinating actions and resolving conflicts
• Meet with project team regularly to review project deliverables and deadlines
• Develop and execute test plans
• Support system conversions, upgrades, enhancement

Requirements:

• Must have experience working on medium to large scale projects as well as handling day-to-day operational requests from the business
• Strong project management skills with an ability to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point
• Strong relationship building skills & communication skills
• Understanding the fundamentals of data analysis & analytical data, returns level data etc.
• Must have proficiency with SQL & Microsoft Excel
• Required to have 5-7 years of overall business analyst experience with a proven track record of success

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