Entry Level Business Analyst

Position General Summary:

The Business Analyst uses the tools described in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) to act as an agent of change. The Business Analyst is an advocate for their business partners, ensures documentation around stakeholder goals are complete and thorough, facilitates communication between the project/development teams and business partners throughout the development life cycle, and ensures maximum value is reached by the solutions created.

Essential Position Functions:

• Develop a plan to approach business analysis: include all the required information needed to successfully complete analysis on a given effort.

• Define a list of stakeholders needed for collaboration on an upcoming analysis effort. This will include needed

information and how to best communicate.

• Prepare, conduct, and confirm the results of elicitation results: ensure that the project team understands what

needs to document, documentation completed in a format understandable by different parties, and documentation validated by stakeholders.

• Manage stakeholder involvement: provide a general understanding of information needed, tasks to be completed,

and outcomes required during the effort.

• Requirements management throughout the analysis, design, and implementation lifecycles.

• Prioritize Requirements: through collaboration with stakeholders, owners, by understanding changing policies and mandates, ensure that the value of each requirement is maintained and visible.

• Evaluate and communicate the introduction of new requirements in an ongoing effort.

• Obtain team agreement on requirements through collaboration.

• Document the current state of a business process.

• Document the desired or future state of a business process by understanding goals, impacts to the given system,

and process changes that need to occur to facilitate change.

• Account for, track, and communicate risks that might take place during a given effort. This also includes capturing

risk mitigation strategies.

• Monitor beta-release feedback to facilitate ongoing improvement.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Excellent customer service skills

• Strong organizational skills

• Ability to understand and follow verbal and written instructions

• Demonstrative skill in attention to detail

• Ability to function effectively in a high demand environment

• Ability to work independently and as a team member

• Working knowledge of general office practices, methods, and equipment, including computer skills in Microsoft Office suite of products.

• Ability to compile, review, categorize, prioritize, analyze and interpret data and/or information