Job Description

POSITION: BUSINESS ANALYST INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY III LOCATION: TORRANCE, CA DURATION: 12 MONTHS   JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Gathers, refines and validates complex business requirements, interdependencies, potential risks and issues
• Analyzes business partner's operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions
• Assists in the business process design or redesign and documentation as needed
• Translates high level business requirements into functional specifications and manages changes to such specifications
• Facilitates communication and gains commitment between business units to align solutions with business strategies
• Develops complex business cases
• Works on multiple projects as a project team member, at times as a project leader
• May coach and mentor less experienced staff
• Assists with facilitating project governance and corporate priorities

  ACADEMIC/EXPERIENCE/COMPETENCY:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.

• The candidate must display the following technical competencies:

• In-depth knowledge of business requirement and corporate priorities.

• Advanced ability to gather/refine complex business requirements, recommend or make decisions on business requirements/interdependencies.

• Advanced ability to develop complex business cases.

• Advanced ability to create impact analyses to make recommendations.

• Advanced ability to present complex positions and strategies for business decisions, processes and plans.

• In-depth knowledge of compliance principles.

• In-depth understanding of the business architecture and its relationship to other architectures.

• Advanced ability to assess corporate impacts of changes and recommend strategies to senior management.

  BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

• 5 to 7 years of relevant technical or business work experience

  DAILY TASKS PERFORMED:

• Create and maintain project schedules and effort estimates
• Manage and track project progress
• Facilitate meetings with stakeholders/business customers
• Analysis and resolution of business reported issues
• Document requirements and processes

  WANTS:

• Software development and IT background strongly desired
• Familiar with ASP.Net MVC, SQL server and Web Services (SOAP and Restful), JAVA
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Take personal ownership and responsibility for all deliverables
• Be quality-focused, and supportive of end users
• Excellent Project Management and Business Analyst skills
• Able to work with a large team and in a crossed-functional team environment
• Understanding source control (IBM Clear Case) is preferred

  REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with business users and stakeholders.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Identify and Manage project dependencies and critical path
• Provide Business Analysis expertise for the key project requirements
• Develop and deliver status reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations
• Responsible for managing project deliverables, business analysis and key IT deliverables

Qualifications null Additional Information

12 MONTHS