Business Analyst

Business Analyst with Election Systems Skills

Raliegh, NC

6 months

The Senior Business Analyst will act as a consultant to:

• Elicit, document, and prioritize business needs
• Lead requirements-gathering sessions to define business and process requirements
• Assess the current state of a business process and identify attributes to improve about them
• Gain consensus with stakeholder’s new process designs
• Gather, scope, and document requirements
• Identify and document use cases or usage scenarios
• Identify business line dependencies and conduct impact analysis
• Advise IT and business stakeholders on pros and cons for different solutions
• Perform other duties as assigned to complete project tasks and requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Gathering, refining and documenting detailed business requirements
• Documenting ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ business process flows
• Use Case documentation
• User Story documentation
• Business Rules and Functional Requirement documentation
• Defining Acceptance Criteria for each requirement
• Ability to review Functional Design to ensure it meets requirements
• Leading and mentoring less experienced business analysts

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience of Election Systems Experience (mandatory)
• Minimum 10 years’ experience gathering and documenting business requirements (mandatory)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in writing detailed Business Requirements and Functional Design documentation (mandatory)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working directly with senior stakeholders to determine improved business solutions (mandatory)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working with cross functional teams (mandatory)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience creating process flow diagrams (mandatory)
• Excellent verbal and written communication. Candidate should be able to communicate well with project managers and stakeholders.
• Good knowledge of business processes (mandatory)
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively (mandatory)
• Strong analytical skills (mandatory)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, native English speaker and writer or equivalent (mandatory)
• Experience serving as the Lead Business Analyst on combined team of analysts and developers (desired)
• Strong understanding of the CRM Platform and its functional modules (desired)
• Delivering and leading end user training sessions (desired)
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Certification (desired)
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies (SCRUM) (desired)

EDUCATION:

• BSc in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or commensurate experience