Senior Business Analyst

Job Title: Senior Business analyst

Role/Job Summary:

Works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and information systems. The business analyst's primary responsibility is to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. Under general direction of Business Analyst Manager and/or Program Manager, leads and directs analysis activities for high-priority projects requiring high degrees of functional integration.

Key Responsibilities:

Essential Duties (MUST Include% of time, should equal 100% in total) %of

Time

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• Requirements Gathering
  • Prepare for and conduct requirements elicitation sessions using a variety of techniques including but not limited to: brainstorming, interviews, surveys, requirements workshops, observation, task and workflow analysis, prototyping, storyboarding, document analysis, interface analysis, and focus group sessions
  • Document elicitation results and validate with stakeholders to ensure stated requirements align with stakeholders' understanding of the requirements
• Requirements Analysis
  • Work with stakeholders, sponsor, and project manager to prioritize requirements and agree on assumptions and constraints

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• Organize, model, and specify requirements with the appropriate level of detail given complexity, risk, and audience
• Work with stakeholders, sponsor, and project team to verify and validate requirements through review of requirements

• Requirements Management & Communication
  • Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely
  • Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional and nonfunctional requirements, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by project team members who base their work on the requirements
  • Represent requirements using alternative views (ex. models/diagrams)
  • where appropriate
  • Communicate requirements to ensure all stakeholders have a shared understanding of the solution and to secure approval from stakeholders with
  • the authority to approve
  • Manage issues and changes to baselined requirements by identifying business impact of the changes and through effective application of change control processes and tools
  • Manage traceability of requirements to ensure alignment to project goals and objectives as well as alignment to development and testing plans
  • Manage requirements documentation for reuse
• Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
  • Work with project sponsor, stakeholders and project manager to document the product's vision, and the project's and product's scope
  • Conduct stakeholder analysis to identify any role or system that impacts or is impacted by requirements
  • Work with project sponsor, stakeholders, and project manager to identify
  • appropriate representatives for each user group and discuss their involvement10% in the requirements process.
  • Determine the best elicitation techniques, requirements deliverables, and amount of time needed from stakeholders based upon knowledge of a given project or product; document that information in a requirements work plan that includes a clear business analysis approach and scope, requirements communication plan, deliverables to be produced, and business analysis tasks to be performed.
• Solution Assessment & Validation
  • Works with project team to ensures proposed solutions align with requirements and maximizes value to stakeholders
  • Defines requirements for solutions needed to transition from an existing
  • solution to a new one 10%
  • Define acceptance criteria, perform gap analysis on proposed solutions, and make recommendations
  • Work with project team to evaluate impact of defects and to develop plans for resolution or other mitigation
  • Other duties as assigned

Must-Have Skills:

• capturing requirements from business stakeholders for the Workday Financials module. This would include all the sub modules in workday Finance. Creating BRD, features in ADO/Agile and walking thru the requirements during the refinement sessions with the larger Scrum teams.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and consult effectively with employees at all levels.
• General knowledge of business and IT systems.
• Strong attention to detail, motivation, and initiative.
• Interviewing skills, to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information.
• Listening, observation, and oral communication skills, to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say.
• Analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish solution ideas from requirements, and to distinguish user requests from underlying needs.
• Facilitation skills, to lead requirements elicitation workshops
• Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to manage rapidly changing information.
• Excellent writing skills, to communicate information effectively to all levels of internal customers and technical staff as well as to external vendors.
• Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders.
• Modeling skills, to represent requirements information in graphical forms that augment textual representations
• Time management skills, to manage multiple tasks and responsibilities.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• SAFe Agile experience.
• Experience with financial systems.
• Financial services or accounting industry experience.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification.
• Knowledge of Six Sigma methodologies and other fact-based decision-making tools.
• Proven experience in operational business process improvement.

Experience Required:

Minimum of 7 to 10 years of business analysis experience working in a development environment.

Any Other Important Notes:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Work Model: Hybrid.
• Travel: Required, approximately 10% of the time.

New Vision has created a culture of thinking minds, which fosters creative thinking and problem-solving for our customers. We have expertise in building custom IT solutions. Our endeavor is to create a positive impact on the bottom line of the clients and help them increase their profitability, thereby building a long-term and win-win business association with all our clients.

New Vision is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.