Business Analyst

Location:

New Haven, CT, US, 06511

Category: Information Technology

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Overview

The Business Analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the needs of business stakeholders. This includes understanding, documenting, and evaluating business processes through interviewing stakeholders. The Business Analyst elicits, gathers, compiles, and documents user requirements, and translates them into functional requirements. The output from the process should feed the technological solutions to improve processes and systems, enhancing their sustainability, and delivering maximum return on investment. The Business Analyst must thoroughly understand the business, functional, and technical aspects of the applications used within the portfolio they support.

Core Responsibilities

Evaluate business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.
Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies.
Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
Prepare business cases, which define potential benefits and options for achieving benefits through developing new or changed processes, and associated business risks.
Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate this back to the business stakeholders, incorporating feedback.
Prepare effort estimations as requested.
Perform requirements analysis. Document and communicate the results of the analysis.
Translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/the project team.
Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.
On-call and/or after-hours work required.

Skills Qualifications

Required:

Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
Excellent documentation skills
Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills
Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations
Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language
Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required
Ability to translate business requirements of packaged solutions
Ability to research and understand packaged solution upgrades both minor and major. Translates the technical upgrade documentation into business terms the end-user can understand to decide on. Makes recommendations on these upgrades
Experience in Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid environments

Education

Required:

BS or BA with an emphasis in computer science, information systems, or business administration
5-7 years of related work experience as a business analyst

Preferred:

Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) and/or Certified Business Analysis professions (CBAP) preferred

Authorization to work in the United States is required.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Physical Demands

Must be able to remain in a stationary position for a majority of the workday.