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Business Analyst

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Job Description

Title: Business Analyst

Job Description
Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems to make business more effective. Familiar with industry standard business process mapping, and reengineering.

Prepares solution options, risk identification, and financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, etc. Writes detailed
description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
·        Gathers, analyzes, and documents user requirements, business processes, and problems to automate or improve existing systems.
·        Develop complex system documents to convey business requirements and support efficient system design.
·        Develop test plans and participate in user acceptance testing to confirm new and existing system functionality.
·        Analyzes program policies and procedures to determine their effect on automated systems and system functional areas.
·        Serves as a liaison by providing consultation, documentation, and direction to other areas with regard to analysis, design, configuration, testing,
          and policy implementation within all systems.
·        Develops, documents, and revises system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
·        Keep all stakeholders informed through the distribution of project information and project status reports.
·        Facilitate the service request life cycle through customer-related service request responses, business requirements coordination, technical
          specifications and related artifacts review, and monitors system integration and user acceptance testing prior to implementation.
.          Identify a project’s potential risks and difficulties and design strategies to mitigate or avoid them.
·        Works independently and in coordination with TDA staff as assigned, to perform a variety of complicated tasks with a wide degree of creativity and
           latitude
·        Perform other duties as assigned

MUST HAVE
5        Required        Experience as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, or similar roles
4        Required        Experience with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field
4        Required        Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
4        Required        A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required
4        Required        Bachelor’s degree with major course work in computer science, management information systems or related field
4        Required        Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment

PREFERRED
5        Preferred        Project management
1        Preferred        Managing or providing direction to system developers and business analysts
1        Preferred        Experience working with diverse groups of people with varying technical knowledge.
1        Preferred        Knowledge of best practices in system transitions