Senior Business Systems Analyst

Ampcus Inc · New Haven, CT · 3 wk ago

On-siteOTHRFull-time

About the role

The Senior Business Systems Analyst will evaluate business processes, gather and document user requirements, and translate them into functional requirements for technology solutions. This includes understanding, documenting, and evaluating business processes through interviews with stakeholders. The role requires an advanced understanding of both business processes and systems used within the portfolio supported.

Responsibilities

Evaluate business processes anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.
Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
Perform data gathering and analysis to develop business requirements and assist in identifying business priorities and recommended timelines.
Prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.
Aid in the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders.
Deliver precise functional specifications to include functional hierarchy, workflow, business rules, interface design and definitions, outstanding issues, data analysis, and data mapping to clients and development staff.
Conduct gap analysis between application and stated customer requirements and collaborate with Architects and Developers to estimate project impact.
Prepare effort estimation including researching and estimating costs of upgrades and relevance of vendor packages.
Evaluate release notes for vendor products.
Determine impact to current business processes and assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for enhancements and revised processes.
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, project team and business owner(s).
Participate in technical design of solutions with programmers, solution architects, and other team members.
Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
Select, adopt and adapt appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
Collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, conducting of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.
Provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.
Provide technical guidance to other team members.
Triage and analyze incidents and problems. Provide clear analysis results including business impact.
Assist business analyst(s) and test analyst(s) with duties as necessary.
On-Call and/or after-hours work required.

Qualifications

Experience in Finance, SAP (S4 Hana), and data visualization tools.
Experience working with IT development staff on complex projects.
Strong technical background.
Strong data analysis and presentation skills.
Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment to support deadlines.
Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently.
Prominent experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development.
Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
Excellent documentation skills.
Excellent oral and written communication 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.
Advanced skill in Excel including formulas, pivot tables, vlookup, and macros.
Understanding of REST and SOAP Web Service and how to use SoapUI, REST API clients.
BS or BA with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration.
7-10 or more years related work experience.

Skills

Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau (a plus).
Technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and APIs.
Data analysis skills including ability to perform intermediate to advanced SQL queries.
Experience in scripting.
Competency in Microsoft applications including Visio, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Preferred

Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau.

System/Technical Knowledge

Technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and APIs.
Data analysis skills including ability to perform intermediate to advanced SQL queries.
Experience in scripting.
Competency in Microsoft applications including Visio, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Education

BS or BA with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration.
7-10 or more years related work experience.

Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area. Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects. Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position. iTech Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.