Business Analyst

Title: Business Analyst
Contract: 6 months (possible extension)
Location: Phoenix AZ 85044 (Remote during COVID)
Start Date: ASAP
No C2C/Corp-to-Corp
Must be authorized to work in US without restriction or sponsorship

Responsibilities:
* Assess and document business problems, goals and workflows on projects of diverse scope providing technical and business insight.
* Understand organizational and technical structures and constraints
* Working with Project Management team, business and technical partners, identify solutions to business problems from a cross enterprise perspective
* Participate in Use Case discovery workshops, Identify Use Cases/User Stories, build detailed requirements and other artifacts through use of tools (eg. Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, etc)
* Provides expert input on enterprise-wide business process and technology planning and decisions.
* Applies In-depth evaluation of interdependent programs.
* Work well in a variety of project delivery frameworks including Agile Scrum and Kanban
* Analyze requirements and change impacts
* You will deliver:
o Analysis of business processes
o Current state, target state, gap analysis and process models
o Project/Product Vision
o Use cases/user stories including cross-domain dependencies
o Agile epics and stories (capabilities and features)
o Software requirements specifications
o QA and/or UAT test cases
o Testing and validation processes
o Business rollout, training, and adoption
o Standards, guidelines, and training materials

Skills:
* 5+ years’ experience in the financial industry is required
* 8+ years (minimum) of experience as a Business Process Analyst, Systems Analyst, and/or Business Analyst
* Understand business processes, roles, steps and goals
* Can identify opportunities for process improvement
* Understand organizational culture, structure, and constraints
* Ability to identify and analyze business and technology requirements
* Manage project requirements across functional groups including traceability and changes
* Communicates with stakeholders and can identify their needs
* Coordinates User Acceptance Testing
* Understand what the business does (i.e. products, goals, services and competitors)
* Experience with Agile methodology
* Knowledge of JIRA or Confluence
* BA/BS degree or equivalent experience