Business Analyst 3 | REMOTE
Job Description: Business Analyst
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 12 Months
Top 3 Skills
Key Responsibilities Include
Required and/or desired skills of the BA.
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 12 Months
Top 3 Skills
- Experience with state government, non-profit.
- Proficient in business process modeling, business requirements gathering, and gap analysis.
- UAT & Documentation
- The PMO requires professionals who can be assigned to various state departments in Maine according to project requirements.
- This position directly reports to the PMO Director of Transformation Management.
- The core responsibilities include conducting detailed business requirements analysis, documenting processes, and possibly performing user acceptance testing adhering to industry best practices.
- Success in this role necessitates strong analytical skills and the ability to convey complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders effectively.
- Candidates must exhibit a systematic approach to business analysis, be collaborative, and possess excellent communication skills to articulate intricate concepts clearly, foster transparency and open lines of communication.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Working with the Project Manager to establish a clear project pathway and develop strategies for risk mitigation.
- Conducting 'Gap Analysis' by designing current-state and future-state business.
- Required Skill Set/Skill Level/Experience process workflows, as well as executing business requirements gathering workshops to identify opportunities for process improvement, pinpoint process bottlenecks, and eliminate redundancies.
- Developing comprehensive functional and non-functional business requirements for solution planning.
- Conducting thorough investigations and documentation of clearly defined business rules as part of process mapping activities.
Required and/or desired skills of the BA.
- Highly proficient in business process modeling and gap analysis.
- Proficient with all Office 365 products, specifically Excel for data/gap analysis tasks and Visio for process map design.
- Able to work independently and autonomously on assigned deliverables, utilizing time management and prioritization skills.
- Knowledge of government structure.
- Understands the difference between a business functional requirement and a business non-functional requirement and can explain and educate prospective business partners.
- Capable of serving as a mediator between business users and technical users on assigned projects.
- Willing and able to provide servant leadership for business partners in a consultant capacity.
- Able to leverage negotiating skills without direct authority.
- Experience in leading workshops for business requirements gap analysis.
- Experience in creating current-state and future-state process workflows.
- Experience in creating and maintaining dashboards using a tool such as Power BI for tracking work and communicating progress to business partners.
- Understands business requirements gathering best practice methodologies.
- Experience in creating and designing a Business Requirements Document.