What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Business Systems Analyst with Workday position at Accroid Inc?
Job Title: Sr Business Systems Analyst
Location: Chicago, IL 60607 (Hybrid - 2 Day Onsite) - (Tuesday and Thursday)
Duration: 12 Months Contract Role
Visa: USC and GC Only
MOI: Phone and Face-To-Face
Job Summary:
Must-have skills:
1.) strong, core BSA experience within the financial services/banking arena, including documenting all pieces of the BSA role | driving requirements gathering process.
2.) accounting and financial management concepts.
3.) Workday.
Notes from Call with hiring manager re: Senior BSA Contract Role:
· Solid years of experience as a BSA.
· At least 5 years of experience.
· Directly working with product owner architect.
· Cross-functional collaboration.
· Gathering requirements and translating them into functional specifications.
· Will contribute to building standards creating best practices.
· Imbedded within a delivery team.
· Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), encompassing accounting, financial reporting, and human resources management.
· Workday is a must.
· Accounting concepts are a must.
· Tools include Workday for core accounting and wire transfers, as well as reconciliation software and an L&D system.
· Integrations with other systems will be crucial.
· Local candidate who can be onsite two days weekly (Tuesday and Thursday).
· Collaboration is so key.
· Financial experience will be important.
· Account and financial management concepts are critically important – potentially even more so than the Workday piece.
· Ability to document the current state, create artifacts for a future state, and translate all requirements into functional specifications.
· They are relying on this resource’s understanding of IT (e.g., API interaction, mappings from one system to another, etc.).
· System-agnostic and keen ability to extract functional requirements to build requirements with the architect.
· Will work closely with Project Managers.
· Tools include Visio and Lucidchart for visualization and Azure DevOps for writing stories. epics, and features.
· Delivering in both Agile and Waterfall environments.
· Ready to review and interview candidates as soon as possible.
· Bottomline: The must-have skills: 1.) strong, core BSA experience within the financial services/banking arena, including documenting all pieces of the BSA role | driving requirements gathering process; 2.) accounting and financial management concepts; 3.) Workday.
Job Description: Understand Business Needs: Work closely with different business units to understand the Bank’s strategies, processes, and roadmaps.
Gain in-depth knowledge of the context in which the business and IT operate.
Deliver Quality Products: Understand end-user needs.
Develop detailed requirements.
Support technical designs and process improvements.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate business/user requirements.
Translate business needs and end-user requirements into functional specifications.
Communication Skills: Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Participated in various SCRUM team meetings with business, management, IT, and senior leadership.
User Stories: Ensure user stories meet the INVEST principle and definition of ready.
Business Analysis: Perform complex professional business analysis and application development duties.
Elicit complex business requirements through JAD sessions with business and technology stakeholders.
Documentation: Write detailed specifications of requested system changes.
Write data specifications, release notes, user guides, and other deliverables as needed.
Design and Development: Assist with creation and refinement of design (mockup) on new functionality.
Develop and execute data mapping plans for conversions and migrations.
Software and Process Improvements: Suggest software and process improvements.
Implement and integrate COTS software solutions to support proprietary processes.
Data Analysis: Write queries to analyze business data for decision-making and ad hoc reporting.
Financial Systems: Familiarity with financial systems is a plus.
SDLC Methodology: Understand the software development process using SDLC methodologies (Waterfall/Scrum).
Project Management Tools: Familiar with automated project management and documentation tools (e.g., flowcharting, data modeling, Excel, UI design, Visio).
System Diagrams and Business Processes :Familiar with techniques and tools for modeling system diagrams, business processes, functional processes, and interfaces.
Collaboration: Collaborate with staff to ensure smooth and reliable operation of software and systems.
Identify and resolve business systems issues.
Requirements and Goals: Work with business team members, decision makers, and stakeholders to define business requirements and systems goals.
Ensure applications meet business requirements and systems goals.
Project Participation: Participate in planning relevant project, enhancement, and maintenance activities.
Develop and maintain business domain knowledge.
Bank Policies and Standards: Understand and apply relevant Bank policies, standards, and procedures.
Demonstrate adherence to IT principles and critical thinking.
Software Releases and Upgrades: Assist in software releases and roll-outs.
Perform software improvements and upgrades.
Perform code deployments and releases.
Quality Focus: Complete all tasks with a focus on quality.
Meet or exceed established SLOs.
Team Guidance: Provide guidance to less experienced team members.
Collaborate with different areas of IT and the business to provide solutions.
Customer Support: Build rapport and elicit problem details from customers.
Provide timely reports on project status and issues to management and business units.
Troubleshooting: Apply diagnostic utilities to aid in troubleshooting.
Access software updates, drivers, knowledge bases, and FAQ resources to aid in problem resolution.
Promote Understanding: Work to promote an understanding of business processes and systems.
