Senior Business Analyst Responsibilities:
Experience: Minimum 5 years
Job Description
Children International is looking for a Senior Business Analyst that will serve as the liaison between
the customer community and the technical development team. This person will be responsible for
eliciting, analyzing, validating, specifying, verifying, and managing the business needs of the project
stakeholders, including customers and end users. The successful candidate will work closely with
business units, subject matter experts and technical resources to identify business needs, define
projects, develop requirements and manage the development effort to completion.
General Responsibilities:
Lead requirements analysis, validation and verification, ensuring that requirement statements
are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and
verifiable
Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, business process
descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and
workflow analysis, and/or requirements workshops.
Ability to communicate (verbal and written) with business units that rely on that information to
define system requirements or organizational processes.
Collect and analyze the project's business requirements and transfer the same knowledge to
the development team.
Effectively communicate relevant information to company management
Review and/or prepare system documentation and specifications in accordance with
methodology.
Ability to lead internal teams
Suggests areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions
Facilitate requirements prioritization based on business value
Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the
project.
Manage changes to requirements through effective use of change control processes and tools
Balance technology and business issues as well as communicate appropriately with both
technology and business experts
Assist in enforcement of project deadlines, schedules, and methodologies
Perform data analysis using SQL and other tools as necessary
The successful candidate must be able to think quickly, be aggressive, and improvise as necessary.
The selected candidate will need to be able to interact with a variety of people within the organization
and adapt their style to different personalities. Additional qualifications include:
Advanced knowledge and experience using Microsoft Office and Visio
The ability to think analytically, solve problems to complex business processes, and document
results.
The ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear, concise manner across functional and
technical departments.
A strong understanding of web-based application delivery.
Work on multiple tasks at any one time while maintaining high quality standards.
The candidate must be process-oriented with sound judgment, attention to detail, accuracy,
and follow-through including the flexibility to perform in an ever-changing work environment.
The candidate must be energetic, driven and committed to project success while working
under tight time constraints and pressure.
Develop wire frames, workflows, use case diagrams, flowcharts, and other analysis-type
documentation.
Development of test scenarios and test cases, and testing activities necessary to assess the
quality and completion of system implementations
Perform industry research to clarify, define, or satisfy technology or business process issues
Monitor and manage project scope and enforce change management
Identify, document, and resolve project issues
Develop contingency plans where appropriate
Identify opportunities for improvement and make constructive suggestions for change
Set and continuously manage customer expectations
Preferred experience
Minimum 5 years Business Analysis experience
Working with Agile software development practices
Experience using Kanban framework in a Microsoft .NET development environment
Experience implementing / configuring MS CRM
Utilizing TFS to manage Features/Tasks
