Americas Tax Technology Group - Business Analyst - Manager

Location:

Dallas, Nashville, Chicago, Atlanta

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** Americas Tax Technology Group - Business Analyst - Manager*
* As part of our Americas Tax Technology Group (ATTG) you will be part of a technology organization that develops and maintains innovative solutions for our client-serving Tax professionals. ATTG professionals will partner with our Tax professionals to develop supporting technology such as digital/mobile tools to improve internal operations, application of Robotics Process Automation (RPA) to collect financial data, development of advanced financial dashboards, visualization, analytics, and reports.

** The opportunity*
* The Business Analyst role sits in the Solutions Delivery Pillar.

** Your key responsibilities*
* You will be responsible for partnering with Business Technology Leaders, Solution Delivery Leaders, Product Leaders, and Architects in the definition and delivery of long-term business and technology strategies for one or more portfolio(s), applying domain knowledge and enterprise analysis to drive reuse, continuity, and measurable business outcomes.

+ Plan and manage the BA approach to ensure timely, high-quality requirements delivery across the Portfolio throughout all phases of the ATTG project life cycle, reducing rework and enabling efficient solution delivery.

+ Lead and mentor a team of BAs assigned to program/portfolio project(s), ensuring comprehensive business analysis is performed on all projects across the assigned Portfolio/Programs. Perform hands-on BA work directly as needed.

+ Actively review and govern requirements traceability to ensure end-to-end impact analysis, coverage validation, and alignment to approved scope and business outcomes across the Portfolio.

+ Work with the Business Analysis Community of Practice to ensure consistent application of the Solutions Delivery and ATTG standards and methodologies and advise on exceptions.

+ Partner with QA Engineers to review test strategies and plans, ensuring requirements coverage, risk mitigation, and overall solution quality.

+ Partner closely with Product and Solution teams to shape product roadmaps, epics, and features, ensuring alignment between business priorities, needs, and technical delivery.

** Skills and attributes for success*
* + Ability to clearly articulate both problems and proposed solutions

+ Proactive approach to identifying issues and presenting solutions and options, and where appropriate, leading to resolution

+ Ability to prioritize personal and team workloads to best meet organizational objectives

+ Excellent verbal and written communication skills

+ Experience working effectively and building relationships with and between teams, external vendors and internal clients at varying executive levels

+ Flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change based on client needs

+ TAX or Finance domain knowledge

+ Experience leading other BAs to provide analysis and requirements, ensure consistency, accuracy and quality of BA deliverables on larger initiatives

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Experience with Enterprise Analysis

+ Expert on industry-standard, structured business analysis techniques (i.e., user stories, use cases, UML/logical modeling, BABOK, etc.) appropriately modifying according to the decided software development methodology (i.e., Agile, Iterative, SCRUM, RUP, Waterfall, etc.) in use.  

Experience with Agile desired.

+ Experience using, training and driving others to use requirements management, modeling and change control software(s)

+ Provide supervision and direction to team members and staff

+ Delegate, coach, coordinate and lead co-workers and project team members

+ Responsible for assigning work and reviewing performance, requiring leadership of virtual teams

+ Experience operating in complex environments with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and evolving requirements

+ Experience supporting initiatives involving data ingestion, transformation,…