Job Title: Business Analyst (Financial)
Location: Richmond , VA (Initially remote need onsite after Covid)
Duration: 6+ months
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Perform requirements elicitation, analysis and management activities
- Productntify, evaluate and have a clear understanding of the high-level business needs of s and stakeholders
- Translate business requirements to detailed technical requirements with fluency to enable IT technical teams
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources
- Reconcile conflicting requirements
- Abstract low-level technical information to a higher-level general understanding
- Create and update the requirements traceability matrix aProductst architecture, design and test planning
- Continuously monitor and analyzing potential impacts to requirements and technical Product
- Assist in developing and validating test plans
- Build business process maps to depict both current state and desired state
- Conduct risk assessments for solutions including impact on business and technical processes
- Conduct functional testing and/or partner with quality assurance analysts to ensure adequate coverage of requirements
- Monitor interface log files to ensure the load of financial data into the financial system on a daily basis
- Partner with internal and external technical resources to perform research and trace data inconsistencies
- Partner with internal business resources to understand the impact of system upgrades and enhancements on existing business processes
- Partner with internal technical resources to understand the impact of Oracles Cloud Financials system upgrades and enhancements to internally maintained interface points
- Provide support and knowledge to other project teams that are looking to send or receive financial data to/from the financial system
- Maintain the Financial System product backlog in JIRA
- Assist the Financial System product owner with prioritizing the backlog
- Escalate/communicate enhancements that will exceed the bandwidth, capacity and/or capabilities of the team
- Coordinate change management efforts and for ensuring that the change management process is followed for each release of the financial system
REQUIRED:
- Foundational understanding of accounting concepts (primarily involving the input of financial transactions - receivables and payables - into the general ledger but also a basic understanding of financial position, cash flow and reconciliation)
- Ability to coordinate and facilitate project design sessions prior to development iterations to identify and specify logical system design
- Excellent requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation and management skills
- Familiarity in creating business and technical process and data flow diagrams
- Ability to assist product owners in planning for and coordinating UAT
- Experience making recommendations for the logical design of system enhancements
- Ability to comprehend and explain how change to a component/application impacts the whole system to both technical and business staff
- Previous experience working with Development Lead / System Engineer as liaison to communicate requirements
- Ability to articulate clearly defined user stories and detailed acceptance criteria that include all details necessary to build test cases
- Experience in communicating and working with business stakeholders to translate the business vision into actionable requirements
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to coordinate across business and technical resources to get needed information on a timely basis and ensure necessary work gets done
- Ability to execute simple to moderately complex (multi-table joins) SQL select statements
- Create and maintain data definitions (business definitions of data elements) and source to target mappings for system to system interfaces
- Experience Coordinating and facilitate meetings with clear agendas and in keeping participants on-track
- Previous experience evaluating existing business and technical processes and making recommendations on improvement
- Proficiency with MS Office 2013/2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
- Ability to switch between more waterfall based approaches and iterative-based
DESIRED, BUT NOT REQUIRED:
- Previous experience using JIRA for the tracking and management of requirements and tasks
- Previous experience serving as a Scrum Master on an Agile Team