Senior Business Analyst Full Time NEW

Summary:

• The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for interfacing with clients to define business and technical requirements to drive organizational success.
• This client-facing position is integral to a growing sector within the business and plays a key role in various projects.
• Senior Business Analysts work closely with clients and internal teams to ensure the delivery of solutions aligned with business needs and goals.
• Superior abilities in client facilitation to drive executional priorities are critical for success.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring alignment between business needs and technology solutions. Act as the main point of contact between business and technical teams.
• Facilitate collaborative sessions at all levels of client organizations to enable the development of outcomes that improve people, process, and technology.
• Execute presentation of client-based deliverables with a focus on leadership, solution focus, and solution mindfulness.
• Document current state business processes, workflows, and systems in detailed process maps, user stories, and other relevant documentation. Ensure clear communication of complex business processes and solutions.
• Perform gap analysis to assess the difference between the current state and the desired future state of systems, processes, and solutions. Develop and present recommendations for closing these gaps.
• Define and design the future state of business processes, systems, and technologies to ensure alignment with strategic business goals and objectives.
• Lead the process of gathering and analyzing business requirements for greenfield projects, ensuring all stakeholders’ needs are captured and clearly defined utilizing a variety of elicitation approaches and tools.
• Collaborate with technical teams to understand requirements, assisting in the design and delivery of solutions that provide actionable insights for business decision-making. Experience with source to data mapping is helpful.
• Document current state business processes, workflows, and systems in detailed process maps, user stories, and other relevant documentation. Ensure clear communication of complex business processes and solutions.
• Perform gap analysis to assess the difference between the current state and the desired future state of systems, processes, and solutions. Develop and present recommendations for closing these gaps.
• Partner with project and client teams, including executive stakeholders, to drive seamless client execution.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to junior BAs and assist with overall project delivery, ensuring timelines and objectives are met.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, information technology, or a related field, master’s beneficial.
• Referenceable history of success facilitating conversations with senior leaders, driven through the development of concise plans and roadmaps.
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in planned or ad hoc environments, virtually and in-person.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and the ability to think strategically and analytically.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Experience in working with cross-functional teams and leading client-facing engagements for large and small groups, virtually and in-person.
• Previous experience in the development and delivery of executive presentations.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst, ideally with a focus on greenfield projects and/or business intelligence solutions. A total of 15 years of increasing responsibility within information technology or aligned professional environments.
• Strong expertise in eliciting and documenting business requirements, including use cases, user stories, and functional specifications utilizing a variety of methods.
• Experience in business intelligence tools, methodologies, and principles, including data analysis, reporting, and visualization, is desired.
• Demonstrated history of navigating complex organizational structures to drive through thorough analysis, review, and planning on complex topics.
• Proven ability in gap analysis and process optimization to drive the design of future state solutions.
• Knowledge of process mapping tools and techniques (e.g., BPMN, Visio, Lucidchart).
• Strong understanding of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project management methodologies.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CBAP, PMI-PBA, etc.) are a plus.
• Travel Requirements: This role will require travel 5-7 times per year for up to 24 days away from home in a calendar year.
• Candidates residing in WI, IL, MI, OH, IN, AR, SC, PA, SD, AZ, and FL will be given priority over other locations.

Tagged as: Business Analyst, Business Intelligence, Gap Analysis, Requirements Gathering, United States