Business Analyst

Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Business Analyst, a W2 contract opportunity.

This is a W-2 contract opportunity, and candidates must be able to work on our W-2 only. NO C2C or 1099.

Business Analyst
Employment Type: W2 Only (No C2C or 1099)
Duration:6 -Month W2 Contract with a possibility to extend or convert.
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, 63103
Schedule:Hybrid , 3 days in office
Team and role fit

• The overall team is Data Analytics and AI. This person would be dedicated to one to two sub-teams focused on advanced analytics and possibly AI.
• They would support one to two scrum teams by gathering and refining business requirements for analytics and AI use cases.
• They would work closely with a product owner (likely senior/lead level), who handles prioritization and use case completion.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Coordinate with stakeholders to identify and clarify business requirements.
• Facilitate meetings, run one-on-one interviews or larger group workshops, and produce detailed documentation.
• Translate business needs into functional and technical requirements.
• Create process maps or use other process modeling techniques.
• Keep product owner(s) updated on status.
• Act as the "face" of the use case for stakeholders, communicating where it stands in the process.

Must-have skills

1. Analyzing and interpreting organizational data
2. Strong communication
3. Strong knowledge of practices and procedures for translating business requirements

Nice-to-have skills

• Meeting facilitation
• Developing professional presentations

About The Position

• Acts as a liaison between development groups and business units for the development and implementation of new systems and enhancement of existing systems.
• Evaluates new digital developments and evolving business requirements and recommends appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.
• Prepares communications and makes presentations on system enhancements and/or alternatives.
• Tracks and reports the realized value once the automation is operational.

Key responsibilities include:

• Works with stakeholders to identify and clarify moderate to complex business requirements
• Facilitates meetings with business stakeholders and Digital to understand business requirements; demonstrates understanding of business needs and recommends design changes for moderately complex challenges
• Conducts one-on-one interviews, brainstorming sessions, group work sessions, automation discovery workshops and surveys when necessary
• Translates business and design requirements into technical requirements
• Directs and owns process/system changes and reviews process changes to ensure design changes meet business requirements
• Draws process maps and uses business process modeling techniques
• Manages overall catalogue of process flows for medium complexity projects
• Facilitates review and signoff of design changes to ensure design changes meet business requirements
• Performs QA against specifications and solves issues
• Assists with conducting tests and inspections of products, services, solutions or processes to evaluate quality or performance
• Supports medium complexity projects with little or no degree of supervision, including tracking issues and managing action items
• Appropriately documents knowledge and integrates cross-project knowledge, experience and value to make more accurate decisions
• Interfaces with agile scrum teams to deliver digital solutions; acts as BA Point of Contact (POC) on scrum team
• Provides innovative ideas and insights to redesign business processes that will optimize business results
• Acts as a liaison between business stakeholders and vendors to ensure successful implementation and support of project efforts
• Communicates with the business and software engineers to develop tools that will solve for client/business requirements
• Reviews the Digital organization’s technology enablement and integration plans; demonstrates technical expertise within own technology through determining best course of action for own project
• Demonstrates strong working knowledge of agile software development processes and the development lifecycle; liaises with scrum masters and coaches to move project forward
• Coaches less experienced co-workers and provides feedback to enhance skills and knowledge

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in mathematics, computer science, or business.
• Five or more years of experience working with IT related systems/projects required. Business Analyst experience is required.
• Three or more years of experience in a customer service oriented and/or IT related field required.

In addition to the above qualifications, the successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong understanding of how to interpret customer’s business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Strong ability to facilitate meetings and develop professional presentations.
• Strong ability to analyze organizational data and complex problems, interpret and recommend alternative courses of action, and implement intervention strategies to attain performance targets.
• Strong ability to communicate systems and procedural changes to end users through excellent written and oral communications.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the practices, procedures and principles of performance analysis (trending, root cause and gap analysis), benchmarking and audit compliance.

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