Business Analyst - w/Reporting and Analytics (Remote)

Responsibilities

• Apply their business analysis, requirements gathering, elicitation, elaboration and refinement techniques to gather functional requirements from the client.
• Interact with various stakeholders to understand the business requirements of the future system.
• Translate functional area requirements into technical requirements, and support design and implementation of Appian Business Process Model for the client.
• Analyze business user needs and document them as epics and decompose epics into user stories and tasks as needed by the agile scrum teams.
• Analyze information system baseline and perform gap analysis between the baseline, user operational requirements, and the operating capability of products.
• Analyze and document functional requirements and specifications from functional users and subject matter experts.
• Translate customer requirements into a best fit within the application, and support configuration and development of Appian BPM product, processes and documentation.
• Develop and maintain standard systems requirement documents including but not limited to business process workflows, Functional Requirements Documents; Requirement Traceability Matrix, and use cases.
• Support application configuration and security setup as needed.
• Create business process models and identify business process improvements.
• Review and comment on proposed functional/capability configuration for each of the product modules.
• Evaluation and feedback on system and functional design documents, test plans and scenarios, and other associated artifacts.
• Define test scenarios based on requirements; create test scripts to prove each scenario through system and user acceptance testing.
• Able to meet deadlines and manage multiple, dynamic priorities.
• Effective communication skills and demonstrated experience working in a team-oriented environment.
• Apply HCM knowledge and industry best practices in developing the to-be business processes and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related discipline with 5+ years (or commensurate experience).
• Five (5) years' experience of which at least three (3) must be specialized. Specialized experience includes superior functional knowledge of task order requirements.
• Three (3) years of experience in the requirements analysis, design, implementation, test and deployment of Appian or a similar product.
• Three (3) years of experience gathering requirements for reporting and analytics.
• Three (3) years of experience supporting visualization of reports through the business system.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written with ability to tailor the communication of complex information for different audiences balancing internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong written, verbal, and listening skills.
• Strong analytical skills and can demonstrate strong problem-solving skills.