Business Systems Analyst II

Job Description

Job Title: Business Systems Analyst II

Duration: 5+ months (Possibility for extension)

Location: Bellevue, WA/ Remote

Description

• This position is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and creating comprehensive work products documenting requirements, including validation and traceability, for existing and new applications supporting various business channels.
• This position understands how organizations function to accomplish their purpose, and defines capabilities an organization requires to provide a service or meet their goals.
• This position facilitates communication between organizational units to align the needs of business units in order to create requirement work products for solution providers.
• This role plans, directs and completes the analysis of business problems to be solved or product/services to be developed for delivery.

  This role provides technical assistance in identifying, evaluating and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet user requirements.

• This role assesses system impacts, provides gap and process analysis as well as cost/benefit analysis for system or product/service related initiatives.

  This role plans and executes business validation and user acceptance testing of delivered solutions; which entails managing defects and ensuring traceability.

Essential Functions

• Elicits and evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts, decomposes high-level information into details, abstracts up from low-level information to a more general understanding
• Distinguishes presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguishes solution ideas from requests.
• Understands how policies, systems and processes impacts requests/projects.

  Shares business knowledge and understanding among business systems analysts and project stakeholders.

• Brokers consensus among stakeholders with conflicting needs.
• Facilitates requirement sessions with stakeholders and creates comprehensive work products documenting requirements, including validation and traceability of requests.
• Utilizes modeling approach to represent requirement information in graphical forms that augment textual representation.
• Develops a business analysis work-plan to manage own tasks, deliverables, schedule and provides information to stakeholders and Project Management.

  Depends on other knowledge area BSA’s in development of their work-plans.

• Provides SME leadership and consulting support on complex tasks.

  Initiate and execute initiatives to improve the processes, procedures, and tools utilized by the team.

  Reviews deliverables and provides input for other analysts.

  Strong understanding of all business channels.

• Contributes to process improvement initiatives.
• Also responsible for other Duties/Projects as assigned by business management as needed.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years working experience of systems analysis experience with understanding strategic business information systems.
• 2-4 years working experience in technical writing and business systems analysis
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• High proficiency with MS tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, SharePoint and Outlook.

Education

Minimum required Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field; equivalent work experience considered.

Skills Required

Business System Analyst,Technical Writing,Business Information System,System Analyst