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Knights of Columbus · 2 days ago

Business Systems Analyst (Contractor)

New Haven, CT

Full-time, Contract

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Knights of Columbus is a tax-exempt Catholic fraternal benefit society that provides financial security to its members. The Business Systems Analyst will document business requirements and processes, perform data analysis, and translate user requirements into functional requirements for technology solutions.

Insurance

Responsibilities

Conducts data gathering and analysis to develop business requirements and assist in identifying business priorities and recommended timelines

Performs data mapping and data analysis. Creates data mapping and data visualization documents

Prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks

Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders

Deliver precise functional specifications to include functional hierarchy, workflow, business rules, interface design and definitions, outstanding issues, data analysis, and data mapping to clients and development staff

Conduct gap analysis and collaborate with Architects and Developers to estimate project impact

Prepare effort estimation including researching and estimating costs of upgrades and relevance of vendor packages

Evaluate release notes for vendor products. Determine impact to current business processes and assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed

Perform requirements analysis. Document and communicate the results of the analysis

Translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers, project team and business owner(s)

Participate in technical design of solutions with programmers, solution architects, and other team members

Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards

Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications

Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team

Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted

Select, adopt and adapt appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches

Collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, conducting of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies

Triage and analyze incidents and problems. Provide clear analysis results including business impact

Assist business analyst(s) and test analyst(s) with duties as necessary. On-Call and/or after-hours work required

Qualification

Data analysisBusiness requirements analysisAgile methodologiesSQL queriesMicrosoft ExcelAnalytical thinkingScriptingREST & SOAP understandingVisio proficiencyCollaborationTime managementDocumentation skillsPresentation skills

Required

Experience working with IT development staff

Strong technical background

Strong Data analysis and presentation skills

Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment to support deadlines

Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development

Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills

Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills

Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language

Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required

Experience in Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid environments

Technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and APIs

Competency in Microsoft applications. Advanced skill in Excel including formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and macros

Data analysis skills including ability to perform intermediate to advanced SQL queries

Experience in scripting

Competency in Microsoft applications including Visio, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Advanced skill in Excel including formulas, pivot tables, vlookup, and macros

Understanding of REST & SOAP Web Service and how to use SoapUI, REST API clients

BS or BA with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration

3+ or more years related work experience