Business Sys Snr Analyst

• Elicits requirements via interviews, facilitated requirements workshops, document analysis, surveys, customer site visits, business process analysis, work flow and task analysis, ensuring the right questions are asked to produce essential requirements information to help align business needs with a technical solution.
• Performs "As Is" and "To Be" Business Process Mapping and Business Process Validation.
• Identifies process improvements and provides options and technical solutions for future process design/changes that increase corporate efficiencies while considering impact and integrity of the project.
• Participates in integration design approach for third party vendors products in collaboration with vendors, solutions architects, and business unit
• Breaks down business needs into Epics, Features and User Stories or deliverables to optimize business value of applications and processes.
• Prioritizes the User Story Backlog or Analyst Deliverables (with Business Users or Product Owner) and forecasts/schedules their time for developing the functional design specifications/User Stories (which would include UI, workflow, business rules, security and data mapping and if for a user story also the user story and acceptance criteria).
• Investigates, researches, analyzes, comprehends, and validates data and data integration needs from multiple sources such as User Screens, Reports, SQL, Oracle, APIs and files.
• Creates complex integration/data mapping Functional Specification documentation for vendor and/or internal development teams related to API/UI/Reports/Databases/files; documents include direct mapping, data transformation rules, data business rules and multiple data hops.
• Creates functional specifications and/or user story documentation including: Functional specifications include UI/screen shots, data-mapping, business rules, edits, error handling, system access matrices/user security, process flow diagram and use cases as needed, etc. from which programs will be developed and that fit with the Bank's system architecture standards.
• Works with technical teams to translate business processes and interpret business needs to them and clarify / update specifications provided to ensure proper translation/development during the Development cycles.
• Provides technical direction and support to project or Agile team members during development and testing of functional specification and user stories.
• Supports QA and UAT testing, clarify specifications and user stories and performs testing as needed.
• Works with Business Users, Development, QA and Support teams to troubleshoot and help identify root cause of reported problems during project and post implementation warranty period and document resolutions so that development can code solution.
• Provides support and guidance to other analysts.

Must-Have*

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent Or
• Minimum 6 years experience working in a business analysis function required And
• Minimum 5+ years experience working with Information technologies required And
• Minimum 3 years Microsoft Office software experience required

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, individual contributors)
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to navigate, facilitate, negotiate, and influence across stakeholders
• Knowledge of business analysis methodology and requirements tools.
• Skilled in using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to business needs and problems.
• Thorough understanding of "business needs analysis" process and how system requirements relate to daily business operations.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve for a variety of business needs and problems.
• Skilled at writing SQL statements and very knowledgeable of SQL, Oracle, etc. databases in order to analyze or extract data to perform analysis, data validation, and establish data transformation rules.
• Must have ability to read through and understand intermediate level SQL code written by others.
• Works with complex data structures/models.
• Knowledgeable about APIs, familiar with API tools used to validate data and skilled at mapping to and between APIs, SQL, databases, screens, files, etc.
• Experienced with the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and software development methodologies (e.g. Agile, Scrum, Iterative, Waterfall, etc.)
• Knowledge of systems development and integration for new technologies.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with strong ability to work independently with the ability to multi-task; work on multiple projects..
• High initiative with strong desire to learn new concepts, processes and technologies
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) and SharePoint.
• Able to work in a team environment on task driven work
• Able to work in a structured team environment on task and timeline driven work
• Ability to document existing and recommended flows using Visio (or like product) and ability to create use cases.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies and procedures