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Business Analyst (Financial)

Integrated Resources, Inc

Business Analyst (Financial)

Richmond, VA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    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