Business Analyst

Hi, We have a position with our client at New Haven, CT for the following position.

Please forward your resume ASAP Title Business Analyst Location New Haven, CT Duration Contract to hire Experience 5-7 years related work experience.

Job Summary The Business Analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the needs of business stakeholders.

This includes understanding, documenting, and evaluating business processes through interviewing stakeholders.

The Business Analyst elicits, gathers compiles and documents user requirements and translates them into functional requirements for technology solutions with an eye to improving processes and systems, enhancing their sustainability, and delivering maximum return on investment.

The Business Analyst must have a thorough understanding of the business, functional, and technical aspects of the applications used within the portfolio they support.

Must have experience with life, annuity and universal life (UL) products, agent commission, payroll and reporting, as well as strong business analysis, elicitation, gap analysis, data analysis, deductive reasoning, conceptual thinking and excellent communication skills.

Job Responsibilities Evaluate business processes anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.

Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies.

Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.

Prepares business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.

Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate this back to the business stakeholders.

Prepare effort estimation including researching and estimating costs of upgrades and relevance of vendor packages.

Perform requirements analysis.

Document and Communicate the results of the analysis.

Translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers and project team.

Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.

Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.

Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to business owners, developers and the project team.

Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.

Select, adopt and adapt appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterativeagile) approaches.

Collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, conducting of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.

Collaborate with ITS teams and business partners to evaluate and prioritize work.

Triage and analyze incidents and problems.

Provide clear analysis results including business impact.

Assist Test Analysts with testing duties as necessary.

On-Call and after hours work as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development.

Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.

Excellent documentation skills.

Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.

Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.

Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language.

Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.

Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required.

Ability to translate business requirements of packaged solutions.

Ability to research and understand packaged solution upgrades both minor and major.

Translates the technical upgrade documentation into business terms the end-user can understand to make decision on.

Makes recommendation on these upgrades.

Experience in Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid environments is a plus.

Understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts.

Analyze and assess accuracy of sales reports.

Evaluate and analyze agency data.

Evaluate and analyze commission structures, calculations and commission related accounting data.

Evaluate and analyze agent payroll processing.

Collaborate with business areas to resolve commission related issues.

Provide solutions for ad hoc requests.

Provide agency and commission subject matter expertise to projects as needed.

Systems and Technical Knowledge Basic understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and APIs.

Data analysis skills including ability to perform ad hoc SQL queries.

Experience in scripting.

Competency in Microsoft applications including Visio, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Basic skills in Excel including formulas, pivot tables, vlookup, and macros.

Ingenium experience is a plus Education BS or BA with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration.

Licensing and Certifications Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) andor Certified Business Analysis professions (CBAP)