IT - Business Analyst - Project Lead in Columbia SC

Business Analyst - Project Lead

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.

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 department.
• 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 diagrams 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 standards and security requirements.
• Assist with gap analysis of current state to future state to ensure business and process requirements are meet
• Work with Finance Program Area System Owners and Subject Matter experts to learn their business functions, processes, and needs
• Update SharePoint content associated with system collaboration sites
• Assist with system validation to ensure technical requirements are met.
• Assist with production rollout to ensure minimal disruption of services.
• Assist with the system software life cycle process
• Work with Finance Program Area and IT to present key information for improvements.

• 5+ Years of Experience with Data Analysis & Data Mining using Excel and SQL
• 5+ Years of Experience with Workflow and Process modeling
• 5+ Years of Experience with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), MS Share Point
• 5+ years of experience in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), driving and supporting modernization initiatives.

• Experience with security and data classification related to CDC, HIPAA, and CJIS.
• Experience with NIST industry standard information security practices
• MS Project, MS Planner, MS Dev Ops