Manifest Solutions is currently seeking a Business Analyst for a position in Marysville, OH.
- Analyzes business partner’s operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions
- Assists in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology
- Translates high level business requirements into functional specifications for the IT organization and manages changes to such specifications
- Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation
- Works with business partners within one business function to align technology solutions with business strategies
- Supports several moderately complex business processes
- Assists Project Managers in development of project plans and use associated project planning tools as needed
- Assumes the Project Manager responsibilities in preparing and facilitating the project plan for smaller projects
- Conducts feasibility studies to assess cost/benefit, efficiency and technical viability of solutions to business problems
- Coaches less experience staff
- Leads and conduct meetings to gather user requirements, use cases, and scenarios.
- Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, and comprehensibility.
- Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
- Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on the user requirements.
- Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
- Create systems specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmers.
- Where applicable, perform analysis of existing applications and access impact of the change to the current system processes.
- Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
- Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
- Collaborate with project/ team managers and business sponsors to determine scope, vision, business objectives, and benefits
- Coordinate and perform in-depth tests, including end-user reviews, for modified and new systems.
- Provide orientation and training to end users for all modified and new systems.
Academic/Experience/Competency
- 4 to 6 years of relevant technical or business work experience
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
- Basic knowledge of business requirement and corporate priorities
- Basic ability to gather/refine complex business requirements, recommend or make decisions on business requirements/interdependencies
- Basic ability to develop complex business cases
- Basic ability to create impact analysis to make recommendations
- Basic ability to present and defend complex positions and strategies for business decisions processes and plans
- Basic knowledge of compliance, governance structures and audit principles
- Basic understanding of the business architecture and its relationship to other architectures
- Basic ability to assess corporate impacts of changes and recommend strategies to senior management