Senior Business Analyst

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Partners with leaders, project teams, and subject matter experts across Platte River and its owner communities, the role identifies business needs, defines requirements, and helps ensure initiatives deliver measurable value. As a key member of the Project Management Office (PMO), this role establishes and advances business analysis standards, tools, and practices while supporting the organization's evolving project management and change management capabilities.

• Plan and facilitate requirements gathering (workshops, interviews, surveys and document analysis) with stakeholders.
• Document business, functional and non-functional requirements, including business rules, workflows, interfaces, report definitions and data mapping; prioritize and manage them through delivery.
• Define acceptance criteria with stakeholders and maintain requirements traceability from business need through delivered solution; support scope definition and scope-change analysis throughout the project lifecycle.

• Map and document current-state processes; conduct gap analyses; design and document future-state processes and standard operating procedures.
• Facilitate process improvement and reengineering initiatives; assess risks and opportunities; collaborate with project managers and program owners to estimate project scope and impact.

• Develop business cases with options analysis, estimates, cost-benefit and ROI analyses, and value realization metrics to support project selection and governance decisions.
• Assist with vendor evaluations and solution selection, including mapping requirements to commercial products, services and contractor scopes of work.
• Solution validation:
  Support solution design reviews; plan and coordinate acceptance and functional testing for stakeholders; validate that delivered solutions satisfy documented business needs; support deployment and stabilization.
• Change enablement:
  Support organizational change management on projects, including stakeholder and impact analysis, communications input, training content and adoption measurement.

• Analyze project, portfolio and operational data; prepare reports, dashboards and presentations that support project and portfolio decision-making.
• Track and report post-implementation benefits realization against business case metrics; capture lessons learned to improve future business cases and estimates.
• Practitioner leadership:
  Establish and continuously improve business analysis standards, templates and methods for the PMO; mentor other business analysts, project managers and staff in business analysis practices.
• Support industry compliance:
  Adhere to electric utility industry regulations and compliance requirements.

• Develops and maintains procedures and workflow diagrams for area of responsibility.
• Coordinates with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Willingness to travel occasionally withing the local area, as required.

• This position has no supervisory responsibilities

• Analytical thinking:
  Adept in researching, collecting, preparing, analyzing and interpreting data as well as in…