Business Analyst - Generalist - Level 4

Company: US Tech Solutions
Location: Burbank
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

8+ months contract

Job Summary: Functional business analysts help companies operate more effectively by using software for specific purposes, such as monitoring finances or managing employees.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyze the existing systems and highlight areas of improvement
  
• Enhance opportunities by identifying new software/service to be developed
  
• Analyze and decompose complex requirements
  
• Perform gap analysis and recommend solutions
  
• Fulfill the role of a subject matter expert in requirement elicitation
  
• Document requirements, create functional specifications and prepare wireframes/flowcharts
  
• Oversee the development of the product as per the specifications
  
• Facilitate change and configuration management
  
• Monitor performance, discover variances and propose necessary actions.
  
• Validate the functionality of the end product according to the requirement specifications
  
• Prepare technical user manuals, system configuration documents and other technical reports.
  
  
  General Work Experience / Qualifications
  
  
• 4+ years' experience as a business analyst
  
• Extensive experience planning, facilitating, eliciting, documenting, and managing business, functional and technical requirements
  
• Demonstrated ability to lead conversations to decisions, addressing outstanding questions, providing clarification necessary, and getting sign off on designs
  
• Ability to anticipate design and workflow questions before they are asked
  
• Expertise in modeling complicated processes and mapping current-state to future-state business processes
  
• Confidence to lead conversations with multiple stakeholders, setting agendas and capturing clear next steps to keep discovery on track
  
• Ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects, activities, and tasks under time constraints
  
• Excellent analytical, trouble shooting and critical thinking skills
  
• High energy level, adaptive and a strong team player with a good work ethic
  
• Experience in test planning, test case development and execution
  
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and client engagement skills that encourage discussion
  
• Experience with both traditional Waterfall SDLC and Agile / Lean methodologies
  
  
  Highly Desirable/ Specific Experience
  
  
• Experience in Media & Entertainment Industry
  
• Experience with heavily customized ERP applications
  
  
  Application & System Knowledge
  
  
• ERP & Product Information Management tools (e.q. Microsoft Dynamics Nav, Business Central)
  
• Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence)
  
• Project Management Tools (e.g., Monday.com, Asana)
  
• Microsoft O365 Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Sharepoint, etc)
  
• Data Warehouse (e.g. Snowflake, Teradata)
  
  
  Education, Professional Training, Technical Training or Certification
  --- Undergraduate Degree

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