Senior Business Analyst

Written By Bryton Udy

Job Summary

The Business Analyst (BA) will work as a liaison among the company stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies and operations of the organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. You will interpret client needs, assess requirements, and identify solutions to non-standard issues and requests, provide advice and direction to clients, and contribute to solutions by providing input into strategy, workflows, and delivery for assigned projects and programs.

 

Work Type

Contract Position

Location

Calgary – Open to remote

Responsibilities

  • Define and utilize relevant business analysis techniques and methodologies to support the analysis, definition, and validation of requirements gathering

  • Collaborate with the project team and solution partners to bridge the needs of the business areas with the use of IT

  • Participate in design reviews with the business to support requirements/features management

  • Support and facilitate requirements elicitation during prototyping, focus groups, and interviews

  • Analyze requirements, support the construction of workflow charts and diagrams, understand system capabilities, and write specifications for use cases as required

  • Create test cases and end to end scenarios for system testing, user acceptance testing

  • Participate in testing and documenting defect and issue reporting

  • Work with training and OCM to help translate test cases and business requirements to training materials

  • Participate in cut-over activities

  • Support business during training execution and post go-live support

  • Identify risks and inform the leadership team of potential mitigations

Education, Experience & Skills

  • Degree, diploma or certification in Accounting, Business, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business Analysis, or related discipline

  • Minimum of 7–10 years’ experience doing Business Analysis

  • Ability to express complex project concepts effectively, both verbally and in writing, to diverse audiences

  • Experience working with more than one software development approach

  • Strong facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving and mentoring skills

  • Very strong verbal and written communication skills including presentations

  • Knowledge of Business Analysis best practices

  • Strong customer service focus with the proven ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with team members, stakeholders, and management

  • Ability to translate requirements into processes and controls

  • Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships with all levels of the organization through intuitive business insight and personal credibility; this includes the ability to make recommendations and influence outcomes

  • IT methodology and/or process implementation background

  • Knowledge of and experience with Regulatory/Compliance projects is a distinct asset

  • Experience with SAP projects would be an asset

Bryton Udy https://atheart.co
Next

Senior Project Manager