Business Systems Analyst 2 (NY HELPS

Duties Description

The position is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering complex business and technology initiatives that support NYSIF's strategic priorities. The position will lead cross-functional teams, facilitate stakeholder engagement, manage project risks and dependencies, and ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with organizational objectives.

• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of agency projects and strategic initiatives.
• Develop and maintain project charters, work plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, and resource plans.
• Facilitate project intake, prioritization, and governance processes to support agency objectives and portfolio management.
• Coordinate activities across business units, information technology staff, vendors, consultants, and external stakeholders.
• Establish project goals, success metrics, timelines, and deliverables in partnership with business and executive leadership.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies and develop mitigation strategies as needed.
• Monitor project progress and ensure adherence to agreed-upon scope, schedules, and quality standards.
• Lead project team meetings, stakeholder workshops, status reviews, and executive briefings.
• Develop and deliver project status reports, dashboards, presentations, and other communications for senior leadership and governance committees.
• Oversee change management and stakeholder engagement activities to support successful project implementation and adoption.
• Collaborate with Business Systems Analysts and subject matter experts to ensure business requirements are accurately documented and incorporated into project plans.
• Support procurement activities, vendor evaluations, contract management, and implementation oversight when applicable.
• Promote project management best practices, standards, methodologies, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Analyze project and portfolio performance data to identify trends, resource constraints, and opportunities for improved delivery.
• Provide day-to-day supervision and guidance to Business Systems Analysts, ensuring effective requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, and project support activities.

• NYSIF employee with one year of permanent competitive service as a Business Systems Analyst 1; OR
• Seven years of business analysis experience
  * including: using business analysis techniques to elicit requirements as the foundation for the solution to the organizations business needs; using business analysis techniques for the purpose of identifying solutions aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the system, business process, or; describing in a comprehensive written document what the system, process, or product service must do in order to satisfy the established business requirement;
  
  this includes creating, updating, and maintaining documentation through the system development life cycle; validating requirements throughout the product or system development life cycle (SDLC) including all changes to the processes that would enable an organization to achieve its goals; or verifying requirements throughout the product/SDLC to ensure they perform to the required specifications and are capable of achieving the design capabilities;
  
  this includes developing test plans and logical designs, testing the scenarios, reviewing test results, identifying constraints and risks, or communicating with stakeholders.
• An associate degree may substitute for two years of specialized experience; bachelor's degree may substitute for four years of specialized experience; master's degree may substitute for five years of specialized experience; J.D. may substitute for six years of specialized experience;
  Ph.D. may substitute for seven years of specialized experience.

• List appointment:
  Reachable on current Civil Service eligible list for this title.
• Transfer:
  Current New York State employee with one year of permanent competitive class service in a title eligible for transfer under…