Sr Business Systems Analyst

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* Stakeholder identification, selection of business analysis techniques, process that will be used to manage requirements, and how to access the progress of the work.
* Evaluates project complexity of all domains (Business, IT, Vendor)
* Builds relationships with business partners including users, vendors, project team and management at all levels.
* Develops a communication plan to meet the needs of all business partners and can adapt communication style to different audiences.
* Utilizes some advanced techniques to measure quality of business analysis and can implement appropriate change based on the metrics.
* Manages changes to requirements and assesses impact to scope of moderate to complex projects.
* Manage conflicts and collaborates with project team and stakeholders to gain consensus.
* Develops and maintains traceability of the requirements from planning through post-production phases of projects to ensure quality of delivery.
* Has a good understanding of reuse standards and can help develop and apply new standards for maintaining analysis artifacts.
* Creates comprehensive requirements artifacts at the level of details to support development of solution.
* Facilitates reviews of requirements using formal and informal techniques for large projects.
* Ability to use the more complex analysis techniques, identified in planning, to accurately flush out requirements.
* Able to determine when additional information is needed to discover requirements that the stakeholder is not aware of.
* Accurately documents the requirements so that the stakeholders understand and can review
* Validates the requirements are what the stakeholders intended in order to meet their needs.
* Identify business needs, refine and clarify the definition of the needs and validate the solution meets the needs.
* Problem definition and analysis, business case development, feasibility and definition of the scope.
* Helps stakeholders identify areas of opportunity and facilitates exploration
* Has a broad understanding of business functions such as Service and Operations, Sales and Distribution, Compliance etc.
* Understands organizational culture and uses relationships to influence decisions at project, business and management levels.
* Has a good understanding of the framework of the company (structure, people, processes and technology.
* Ability to prioritize requirements based on cost, timelines and business value.
* Assess a large amount of information and can organize in ways that various stakeholders understand.
* Leverages models to provide insight into opportunities for improvement.
* Develops abstract models that describe business domain, in order to elect requirements.
* Utilizes matrices to organize and show relationships between requirements.
* Assess proposed solution to determine which solution best fits the business need, identify gaps in solution, and determine necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
* Validates the solution meets the business functionality as well as goals.
* Analyzes the impact to existing workflows, processes and procedures that will occur with the implementation of the solution.
* Helps the senior analyst define the capabilities and requirements (transition of data, work in progress and training) needed to support the solution.
* Utilize process modeling tools and techniques in order to identify and breakdown phases of a process in order to create an understanding of the inputs, outputs, and operations that take place during each phase.
* Assess the results of process analysis, on large projects, to determine potential targets for process improvement through removing waste and increasing efficiency.
* Create modeling diagrams, for larger projects, that help define the requirements, identify gaps in requirements and workflows.
* Analyze and document changes and how they impact downstream systems and workflows.
* Develop acceptance criteria to ensure business needs are met.
* Facilitate user acceptance testing for large to complex projects.
* Utilize automation tools to ensure quality and efficiency in testing.
* Analyze and document test plans, test cases and results.
* Can provide some basic coaching on systems, processes, business analysis techniques and products to junior business analysts.
* Ability to customize coaching approach based on the experience and learning style of the other analyst.
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