What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Business Analyst position at the Association Careers?
About the Role:
The IT Business Analyst will liaise between IT and the partners to help understand their technology needs. You will be aligned to a business function, developing deep institutional knowledge and helping map requirements and processes to IT architecture.
You will help prioritize tech-enabled projects, ensuring return on investment is realized and is aligned with the Association's Strategy.
You will report to the Senior Manager - IT Business Relationship Management
You Will:
- Guide communication between IT and the important partner groups to understand their technology needs and issues.
- Obtain an understanding of relevant business area(s) to recommend solutions and build high-quality requirements.
- Be a lead for strategic IT plans for the department
- Establish a communication methodology for efficient organisational communication
- Create artifacts, including business case documentation, scope documentation, and process flow.
- Use several techniques to understand requirements, such as interviews, workshops, surveys, site visits, and storyboards.
- Shape requirements by making recommendations and suggesting alternatives to proposed solutions.
- Identify and help prioritize opportunities to improve business processes
- Understand technical options, limitations, costs, and risks.
- Translate conceptual user requirements into precise, detailed functional requirements.
- Manage requirements scoping throughout the delivery process
- Work with business and delivery teams to prioritize needs.
- Document current processes and models to understand inefficiencies or gaps
- Support delivery teams as they develop, test, and deploy solutions
- Lead small projects to assisting other project managers on larger more complex projects
You will work as part of a planned on-call schedule and may also be required to work outside of regular business hours on occasion.
You Have:
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent years of experience).
- 3 years of experience in business analysis.
- Business analysis certification or similar.
- Experience in ITIL, preferred
How We Support You:
We provide flexibility to help you achieve a good work-life balance. You'll be part of a global, diverse team who foster an environment of inclusion and belonging where you are valued for who you are and where you come from.
We offer benefit options in and out of the workplace, including healthcare, retirement, paid time-off, parental leave, an employee assistance program. We provide resources that support your mental health, and evolve our offerings to meet your needs. We care about our employees' welfare and focus our benefits package on the benefits which support your wellbeing. We also recognize that everyone has different priorities, so in addition to our core benefits to support your health we offer flexible options for you to choose benefits that are right for you, your family and your lifestyle.
We believe in non-stop learning and are committed to investing in learning opportunities that help you reach your full potential and support your continued development.
About Us:
At The Association, a Great Place to Work-Certified company, we are transforming the accounting and finance profession. We are future-focused, empowering the world's most accomplished accountants to stay relevant, meet today's demands, and prepare for tomorrow's challenges through quality education, resources, and training.
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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
The Salary Range for this role is: $90k to $110k
Please note, this is a standard range and exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience and location. If you'd like to understand more on the salary range, please contact the recruiter listed on this posting.
This role will ideally be filled within the next 3-6 months, but if you're interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as we may amend or withdraw our jobs at any time, and reserve the right to do so.
While this role can work remotely in the US, please note that we are unable to employ individuals in the state of California.
Salary : $90,000 - $110,000