
HR/Benefits Business Analyst-Remote
Job Title: Sr. Bus. Analyst
Duties: The primary role of a Senior Business Analyst is to act as a bridge between business stakeholders and IT teams, gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements to facilitate the development of effective and efficient solutions. They play a crucial role in ensuring that technology solutions align with business goals and contribute to the overall success of the organization.
Responsibility Summary:
- Work as a member of an Agile product team with others from Digital Product Management, Technology, and other divisional stakeholders to maintain, enhance or integrate firm systems and data.
- Supports one or more highly complex business processes
- Create, maintain, and occasionally review business process models, data flows, prototypes, business requirements, use cases and test cases.
- Create and execute multiple user stories and features at the same time of moderate to high complexity.
- Understanding of cross divisional systems and impacts of change.
- Responsible for business systems case development and presentation for new systems and data.
- Mentors less experienced members of the team
Qualifications Required in the Job:
- Bachelor's degree is required with emphasis in Technology strongly preferred (or relevant work experience).
- Advanced knowledge of standard Business System Analyst principles and practices.
- 2-5 years experience designing and implementing functional systems and data in a structured process.
- Ability to create new business processes and data usage to promote efficiency.
- The ability to multi-task and work with leader to prioritize assigned user stories / projects.
- Strong relationship management, interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Advanced troubleshooting skills to investigate, resolve and escalate problems. Identifies need for technical assistance to help in problem resolution.
- Associate must have the ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Ability to summarize moderate to highly complex business cases, system information and concepts and clearly communicate to cross divisional leadership.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office tools to provide working system prototypes and scenario modelling.
- Advanced understanding of data warehouse concepts.
- Ability to create user stories or execute pre-existing stories.
Problem Solving:
- Diagram moderate to highly complex business processes, data flow and architecture for new systems and data.
- Follow moderate to highly complex data flow to interpret source of information in support of new systems and data.
- Proactively drive change to systems based on business system impact analysis.
- Serve as functional lead in technical implementation of agreed upon solutions.
- Collaborate with associates and leadership across divisions
Decision Making:
- Decisions made based on moderate to highly complex business system impact analysis and involve business process or data flow recommendations and may impact cross-functional systems.
- Business process redesign decisions are generally made in collaboration with divisional stakeholders and have a moderate risk to associates.
Span of Influence:
- System changes driven from this role generally have a moderate risk to the firm.
- While there are no direct people responsibilities, coordinating with others cross divisionally to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines will be required.
- This position requires a deep understanding of how systems interact with one another and impact division operations and initiatives.
Must have business process documentation background - ability to gather technical requirements - user stories and feature creation (agile space) - ideal candidate has worked with benefits vendors in awards compensation space
Required Skills:
PEOPLE SOFT
BUSINESS CASES
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
MICROSOFT OFFICE
Additional Skills:
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
AGILE
DATA WAREHOUSE
USE CASES
MENTORING
TEST CASES
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
LIAISON
PROBLEM RESOLUTION
EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION SKILLS
TEAM PLAYER
DOCUMENTING
PROCESS REDESIGN
SDLC
EDUCATING
MENTORS