Business Analyst

Job Details:

Position:
Business Analyst – Project Lead – 9753

Location:
Columbia, SC (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 Months contract with possible extension

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IT – DPH – Business Analyst – Project Lead – 9753

Why is this position open:
This is a new position to focus on Public Health Financial and Administrative systems.

Interview Process: 1 round, Virtual/Online

Duration of the

Contract:

12 months

Possibility for Extension:
Yes

Work Location:

Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 days remote). Candidate is expected to be fully onsite during the training period.

Candidate

Location:

Candidate MUST be a resident in the Eastern Time Zone AND be willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.

This is a new position to focus on Public Health Financial and administrative systems.

Due to the volume of agency financial and administrative systems that need to be migrated to agency standard platforms, upgrade and streamline upgrade aged components, and modernization efforts, additional staff is needed to support these efforts and system implementation. The team will work to align business needs with current and future state to ensure systems are set up and supported following industry best practices to ensure strategic initiatives and compliance with federal and state regulatory laws and ensure business continuity.

This position will be a part of the team responsible for supporting these efforts and transition to operational support.

Candidates should be self‑motivated, team‑oriented, work under limited supervision, and respond to priority tasks as needed.

Emphases for the System Business Analyst (BA) candidate will be part of a team focusing on agency efforts to understand current and future state associated with agency financial and administrative systems. The BA will need to learn system capabilities, analysis data and reports, work with system owner and SME to define business and technical requirements, future state workflows, and work breakdown.

This role supports project team by performing administrative and project tasks such as developing, and reviewing draft project documents, task tracking, develop test plans, conduct testing, communicating with stakeholders and general assistance for assigned managers. The candidate will work in a team environment with other Information Technology staff and Program Area system Owners and Subject Matter Experts (SME).

Specific duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• Study and learn system capabilities assigned associated with Financial and administrative systems
• Work with Program Area System Owners to learn their business requirements and needs
• Prepare and manage project documents.
• Scheduling stakeholder meetings and facilitating communication between the project team and stakeholders throughout the project life cycle.
• Support project team to help them complete project tasks.
• Monitoring project progress and creating project status reports for Finance and Operations and Office of Information Technology.
• Create supporting work requests in ticketing system when needed to support a project task or other approved solution like Dev Ops
• Assist with creating future state workflow and digagrams to streamline processes to meet business needs
• Maintain system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
• Problem solving to resolve minor issues without assistance and escalation.
• Develop of test plans and work with program areas to develop their test plans
• Assist with testing and tracking outcomes to include successful results, issues and/or bugs that require remediation
• Assist with ensuring customer and technical needs are met as the project advances.
• Create a positive project outlook to keep the team motivated.
• Managing project management documents such as, without limitation, the project plan, schedule, work breakdown, lessons learned, or scope statement, as assigned.
• Support team members when implementing risk management strategies.
• Develop reporting and dashboard capabilities using excel and Power Bi.
• Adheres to Information Technology application development…