Project Specific needs:
- General BA Skills
- Workday (preferred)
- Vendor management (preferred)
Job Summary:
Works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and information systems. The Business Analyst's primary responsibility is to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. Under general direction of Business Analyst Manager/Director and/or Program Manager, leads and directs analysis activities for high-priority pro jects requiring high degrees of functional integration.
Essential Duties (MUST Include % of time, should equal 100% in total)% of Time.
Requirements Gathering 25%:
- Prepare for and conduct requirements elicitation sessions using a variety of techniques including but not limited to: brainstorming, interviews, surveys, requirements workshops, observation, task and workflow analysis, prototyping, storyboarding, document analysis, interface analysis, and focus group sessions
- Document elicitation results and validate with stakeholders to ensure stated requirements align with stakeholders' understanding of the requirements.
- Work with business stakeholders, technical team members, and UX designers to build a comprehensive picture of the project goals, objectives, and priorities
- Strong focus on understanding the current state vs the desired future state with detailed information around core business value, pain points, process improvement opportunities, key performance indicators and user needs.
Requirements Analysis 25%:
- Work with stakeholders, sponsor, and project manager to prioritize requirements and agree on assumptions and constraints using agile backlog management techniques.
- Organize, model, and specify requirements with the appropriate level of detail given complexity, risk, and audience
- Work with stakeholders, sponsor, and project team to verify and validate requirements through review of requirements
Requirements Management & Communication 25%:
- Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely
- Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional and nonfunctional requirements, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by project team members who base their work o n the requirements
- Represent requirements using alternative views (ex. models/diagrams) where appropriate
- Communicate requirements to ensure all stakeholders have a shared understanding of the solution and to secure approval from stakeholders with the authority to approve
- Manage issues and changes to baselined requirements by identifying business impact of the changes and thro ugh effective application of change control processes and tools
- Manage traceability of requirements to ensure alignment to project goals and objectives as well as alignment to development and testing plans
- Manage requirements documentation for reuse.
- Document requirements using both traditional requirements package formats as well as user story
- documentation as appropriate to the given project or situation.
- Develop wireframes, mock-ups, user journey maps, and other UX design documentation in connection with
- the product designer to drive user driven design.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring 10%:
- Work with project sponsors, stakeholders and project manager to document the product's vision, and the project's and product's scope
- Conduct stakeholder analysis to identify any role or system that impacts or is impacted by requirements
- Work with project sponsor, stakeholders, and project manager to identify appropriate representatives for each user group and discuss their involvement in the requirements process.
- Determine the best elicitation techniques, requirements deliverables, and amount of time needed from
- stakeholders based upon knowledge of a given project or product; document that information in a requirements
- work plan that includes a clear business analysis approach and scope, requirements communication plan, deliverables to be produced, and business analysis tasks to be performed.
Solution Assessment & Validation 10%:
- Works with project team to ensures proposed solutions align with requirements and maximizes value to stakeholders
- Defines requirements for solutions needed to transition from an existing solution to a new one
- Define acceptance criteria, perform gap analysis on proposed solutions, and make recommendations
- Work with project team to evaluate impact of defects and to develop plans for resolution or other mitigation
Other duties as assigned 5%
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, apply ASAP!
Genesis10 has been providing staffing services since 1999 and is recognized by Gartner as a Top IT Staffing firm in the U.S. and by Staffing Industry Analysts as an organization that "stands out for its sizeable operation, impressive achievements and as an industry leader in today's competitive and dynamic ecosystem.
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Benefits of working with Genesis10:
• Medical, Dental, HSA, 401k, etc are available.
• Bi-weekly payroll.
• Established consultant re-marketing program that provides meaningful and challenging on-going opportunities.
• Downtown parking allowance.
• Delivery Director for employee success and support.
• $1000 referral program with the opportunity to earn additional income.
About Genesis10:
Genesis10 is a Professional Technology Services Firm providing Staffing, Workforce Optimization and Domestic Outsourcing Solutions. If you are a high performing business or IT professional with solid, referenced experience, we want to meet you. Genesis10 recruiters and delivery professionals are highly accomplished career advocates, who get to know you beyond your resume to position you with the opportunities that fit your skills, experience and aspirations. We have benefit options to fit your needs and a support staff that works with you from placement throughout your engagement – project after project. To learn more about Genesis10 and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at www.genesis10.com "Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V"
Company:Genesis10Location:Minneapolis - Minnesota - United StatesJob Types:ContractPost Date:November 4, 2021Valid Through:December 3, 2021