Business Analyst II - University Advancement

* Prepares business cases working with university partners.
* Collaborate with the Strategic CRM Alignment Directors to plan approach to requirements elicitation and methods for requirements management and communication.
* Ensure business opportunities and objectives are clearly articulated.
* Works with Project Manager to plan validation of requirements in managing project scope, user acceptance, installation, and deployment; helps determine metrics.
* Performs feasibility analysis as required for projects.
* Coordinates planning activities to meet objectives and timelines of overall program or project; works with Project Manager to forecast required time and resources.
* Implement strategies for gathering, reviewing, and analyzing data requirements.
* Performs requirements elicitation using techniques per plan.
* Documents requirements, establishes scope and objectives and determines strategy for evaluating requirements implementation in systems to achieve business goals.
* Participates in and guides conversations across stakeholders of various levels of technical and data governance proficiency in order to drive decisions.
* Organizes requirements by release and other needed categories and sets up traceability matrix; articulates requirements relationships and dependencies.
* Translates and simplifies requirements for appropriate use; performs gap analysis; performs requirements analysis working with technical team.
* Prioritizes requirements working with university partners and creates conceptual prototypes and mock-ups.
* Uses business process modeling, mapping, traceability, and quality management techniques per methodology.
* Performs requirements management and communication; apply best practices for effective communication and problem-solving.
* Collaborates with project management to obtain requirements approvals per project plan; facilitates go/no go decisions.
* Validates requirements throughout process per plan.
* Uses requirements to drive the design or review of test cases, process change requests.
* Documents use cases based on requirements and manage user testing.
* Provides consulting to all stakeholders regarding requirements management working with Project Management.
* Build knowledge of the organization’s technology infrastructure and specific software applications to help the business address changes through technology.
* Independently prioritizes the completion of tasks and resolution of issues to ensure compliance with project deliverables.
* Manages policy and procedure documentation for assigned functional area(s).
* Will take on assignments for small to large projects, and others as assigned.
* Monitors the technical team solution to ensure requirements fulfillment and solution evaluation.
* Coordinates activities with other business analysts.
* Enables process improvement and/or reengineering.
* Participate in recommending and implementing continuous improvement plans for business analysis.
* Manages business processes related to access requests to Advancement systems.
* Manages strategy, training and communication to UA staff related to WashU's Data Governance Program.
* Develops requirements adoption metrics and other methods of evaluating the long-term performance of the solution.
* Reviews and monitors the effectiveness of business analysis via test results.
* Provides status reports.
* Proven ability to provide business analysis for project teams to meet customer expectations.
* Familiar with IIBA Guide to the business Analysis Body of Knowledge.
* Prior experience in higher education environments a plus.
* Up to 22 days of vacation, 10 recognized holidays, and sick time.
* Competitive health insurance packages with priority appointments and lower copays/coinsurance.
* Take advantage of our free Metro transit U-Pass for eligible employees.
* WashU provides eligible employees with a defined contribution (403(b)) Retirement Savings Plan, which combines employee contributions and university contributions starting at 7%.
* WashU covers the cost of tuition for you and your family, including dependent undergraduate-level college tuition up to 100% at WashU and 40% elsewhere after seven years with us.

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