Location
Kennesaw, GA | United States
Job description
< style="font-weight: 600;"> Job Description>
We are looking for an IT Business Analyst who will be responsible for connecting business units and technical teams by applying business analysis techniques and observing business unit practices to document and understand business functions and processes.
If this is something that interests you, apply today.
Note: This is a hybrid position.
< style="font-weight: 600;"> Skill / Qualifications>
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution of higher education or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
- 2+ years of experience in business, systems, and/or process analysis.
- International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA-CCBA) certification, PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA).
- Experience in IT Project Management, Agile Facilitation.
- Candidate must be able to identify and extract non-essential steps or activities in a business process
- Able to facilitate meaningful, productive conversations with stakeholders
- Need to produce quality results when provided an objective, assignment, or project with minimal supervision
- Anticipate and identify problems and proactively develop appropriate solutions
- Able to appropriately assess and communicate risks, benefits, and alternatives to audiences with varying technical skill levels
- Maintain control over assignments, projects, and responsibilities
- Understand high-level technical concepts and communicate concepts to technical and functional teams with varying technical skill levels
- Work independently and with team members to ensure business requirements and needs are met
- Build a strong rapport with both the technical and functional teams
- Able to adapt to changes in the environment
- Make sound and timely decisions as appropriate, and use good judgement to determine which decisions should be escalated
- Handle multiple tasks or projects at one-time meeting assigned deadlines
- Proficient at business process modelling and selecting appropriate tools and techniques to achieve goals.
- Excellent interpersonal, initiative, teamwork, problem solving, independent judgment, organization, communication (verbal and written), time management, project management, analytical thinking, active listening and presentation skills
- Proficient with computer applications and programs associated with the position (i.e., Microsoft Office suite)
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy and follow up skills with phone and e-mail etiquette
< style="font-weight: 600;"> Job Responsibilities>
- Researches analyze and recommend changes to complex business processes to improve operational efficiencies, quality, and service.
- Collects, organizes, and reviews operational and performance data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement and communicate findings to relevant stakeholders.
- Identifies and maps related and dependent business processes within and across departments and divisions.
- Completes in-depth evaluation of related and dependent processes and applications to identify and address the effects of process changes on other departments and divisions.
- Schedules, prepares, and facilitates fact-finding/discovery analysis meetings with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to understand and document current business processes and functions, pain points, assumptions, timeframes, and success measures.
- Identifies and analyzes business critical process steps and the requirements and/or policies driving those steps.
- Consults with IT subject matter experts to design and make recommendations for standard, supportable ways to accomplish business-critical process steps.
- Identifies, researches, and understands the governing rules and regulations that affect project teams business processes.
- Identifies and documents business process inputs, outputs, and data elements required for optimal execution.
- Collaborates with business partners to confirm the scope and objectives of the process analysis engagement and formulate a shared understanding of priorities for the engagement.
- Presents business process documentation to business and IT decision-makers for evaluation and approval.
- Assists with identifying scope creep and collaborate with technical and functional teams to evaluate feasibility, effort, and project impact of scope changes.
- Identifies and validates technical solutions and implementation strategies to address business requests, needs, and/or issues based on understanding of Application portfolio and existing capabilities collaborating with UITS leadership and subject matter experts.
- Documents system processes, and functionality and recommend improvements.
- Understands, analyzes, and communicates benefits of product features/functionalities and facilitate and document evaluation of go-forward strategies and solutions.
- Designs user interface mock-ups to effectively meet business needs within native system functionality.
- Assists business areas with creating test plans and coordinating User Acceptance Testing documents.
- Plans and executes initial requirements validation against delivered product prior to business area User Acceptance Testing.
- Contributes to an issues log and collaborates with appropriate teams to identify and mitigate risks
- Facilitates new project request evaluation with functional and technical team leads
- Creates standardized templates for internal IT and Business Analyst processes
< style="font-weight: 600;"> Benefits>
Competitive Hourly Rate (Depending on Experience)
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- Position Id: 8198396
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