Business Analyst

Location: Montvale

* Fully remote, EST preferred

* Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with Product Managers and SMEs to understand and translate business requirements into actionable outputs. Assist in creating workplans and project documentation based on business needs.
• Elicit, analyze and document business, stakeholder, and software requirements for technology capabilities.
• Playback, clarify, and follow up on requirements with stakeholders and relay them to the core team.
• Must be able to communicate requirements effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Prepare structured documentation using Microsoft Office tools.
• Support the development and review of project documentation and reports.
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Plan and manage the business analysis approach for the project and ensure the consistent application of the BA process and related methodologies to deliver artifacts.
• Provide guidance on utilization of effective Business Analysis techniques, template usage and development, and technical subject matter.
• Maintain and encourage compliance with project specific standards, processes, and tools for Requirements Definition and Management while ensuring traceability for impact and coverage analysis.
• Responsible for tracing the requirements during implementation to ensure that the developed system is consistent and in scope with the determined system requirements. Skills/competencies:
• Strong communications skills. Must be comfortable working in a global environment.
• Good proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).
• Basic understanding of data analysis tools (e.g., Excel formulas, pivot tables).
• Knowledge of AI, audits and/or assurance is a plus.
• Knowledge/experience of audits (ISO, SOC2, internal audits) and/or technology assurance is a plus
• Experience working for a professional services firm a plus. Duties/% of Time Requirements elicitation, management and documentation 80% Project documentation and reporting 20%

Qualifications:

The skills, abilities, specific knowledge, education and minimum experience necessary to perform this job.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in business analysis or related role in a complex regulated environment.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university or foreign equivalent in Business Administration, Information Technology, or related field.
• Skillful in requirements elicitation, analysis, and management for medium to large initiatives while interacting with multiple stakeholders in a matrix organization.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, proficient at communicating/interacting professionally with diverse groups, clients, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Proficient with industry-standard, structured business analysis techniques, and practices.
• Strong experience with Microsoft tools such as Word, Excel, Project, Visio SharePoint, Power Point; preferred exposure to Azure Dev Ops.

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