Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Salary: $85k-$100k

Location: Chicago, IL/Dallas, TX

*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*

A prestigious financial company is seeking a Business Analyst that will act as a partner to both the business and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as a partner to both the business and the technology teams
• Identify scope gaps and missing requirements by acquiring an in depth understanding of current state (ie, Legacy system) and future state
• Identify product team dependencies and plan for resolution
• Work cross-functionally to analyze and define key stakeholder business needs
• Perform requirements analysis, story decomposition, system integration analysis, and data flow design
• Regularly engage in agile activities including sprint planning and backlog grooming. Act as an advisor to the Product owner regarding next steps and approvals
• Build high quality user stories and acceptance criteria; work with scrum team to refine user stories
• Provide requirement and design support to scrum team
• Support development of user interface requirements and design by collaborating with UI/UX tools and teams
• Support or develop test plans and test cases; participate in test results verification
• Assist in building cross-team collaboration and define acceptance criteria for integrated components
• Adhere to analysis best practices for epics and user stories
• Assists in developing and maintaining policies, standards, guidelines and documentation to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the enterprise

Qualifications

• Experience in Agile and software development
• 5-8 years of experience in business system analysis or related experience
• Preferred business experience in clearinghouse activities
• Flexibility working with remote teams in alternate time zones
• Self-motivated and self-starting; working with little supervision and picking up new and unfamiliar concepts
• Experience using Confluence and Jira
• Proficient in process modelling tools such as Visio

Technical Experience

• Event driven applications, streaming and batch analytics technologies
• Cloud technologies; experience working with AWS a plus
• Data management and visualization tools (SQL, Figma, Tableau, Business Objects, etc.)
• Complex data analytics supported by python and R

Education

• Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree preferred
• Certifications such as CCBA, CBAP, AAC or related preferred