Business IT Systems Analyst

Job Purpose:   The Business Analyst’s role is to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of project stakeholders, be they customers or end-users. This includes interviewing stakeholders and gathering and compiling user requirements to create functional design specifications that can be used by development teams  throughout the software lifecycle.  In addition it is the responsibility of this role to plan, design, develop, and launch efficient business, financial, and operations systems in support of core organizational functions and business processes. This includes gathering and analyzing data in support of business cases, proposed projects, and systems requirements. The Business Analyst is also responsible for generating and compiling reports based on their findings, complete with probable causes and possible solutions to systems issues.  This individual will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help maximize the benefit of IT system investments. Moreover the Business Analyst will initiate the creation of test cases and lead business users through the testing of new solutions. Works with the QA and Training team to document system scenarios and identifies roles impacted Responsibilities: Collaborate with project managers and project sponsors to determine project scope. Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics. Conduct interviews and product analysis to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods. Meet with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business, financial, and operations requirements and systems goals, and identify and resolve systems issues. Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirement specifications. Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team. Where necessary, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on findings. Lead design sessions in prototyping new systems for the purpose of enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flow Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards. Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis in order to define impact, outcome criteria, and measure-taking actions. Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements. Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team. Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.