Business Analyst

Job Description:

• Understand business change needs, assessing the business impact of those changes, capturing, analyzing, and documenting requirements and supporting the communication and delivery of requirements with relevant stakeholders.
• Lead requirements definitions meetings with customers.
• Analyze and document requirements for authorizations to determine data entry requirements and mapping to any existing components necessary to capture the data.
• Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.
• Gather, analyze, document & validate user requirements.
• Create Visio process maps, requirements traceability matrices, use cases and other business analysis documentation appropriate to the specifically assigned project needs.
• Facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders.
• Create, analyze, and validate detailed functional specifications.
• Facilitate design sessions with the implementation team to define the solution

Job Requirements:

Qualified candidates would have the following:

• 5-7 years of Sr. Business Analyst experience
• Have experience in HR, Supply Chain and Finance (one person needed for each functional area)
• Ability to understand the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to prepare reports, correspondence, guidelines, and PowerPoint presentations.
• Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
• Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to write technical, business, and plain language documents and/or emails, with great attention to detail in all written communications.
• Ability to work on multiple projects as a project team member, occasionally as a project leader.

Software Development and Business Process Experience needed:

• Peoplesoft
• Kronos
• Lawson
• Tecsys - Point of Use (POU) and warehouse management systems
• Visio - Business Process documentation/modeling