Oakbrook Terrace,
Illinois
022004
Position: Senior Business Analyst
The Senior Business Analyst (“Sr. BA”) is responsible for the planning, development, and successful delivery of application requirements and recommendations, business workflow analysis, change management activities, and process measurement. The successful Sr. BA candidate must manage communications around project details and expectations with internal business units and the IT management team.
Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will apply core business analysis and project management principles to:
· Facilitate requirements gathering and process mapping sessions with stakeholders in group and individual settings
· Lead sessions to discover and articulate clear organizational and project visions, cases for action, metrics, and resources
· Discover and document as-is and to-be scenarios of organizational processes, technologies, and challenges in detail
· Provide recommendations on methods to migrate from the current state to the envisioned state
· Educate IT staff and business stakeholders on the process of gathering and analyzing business requirements
· Work closely with the Quality Assurance team to validate all business requirements have been met for a given application
· Prepare, create, and deliver articles and presentations on industry topics in the business and process markets to IT staff and business stakeholders
· Track progress against the plan by incorporating information gathered in status reports and one-on-one meetings in regularly scheduled updates to the Project Manager.
· Communicate project progress to stakeholders through status meetings, deliverables, and deliverable reviews.
· Execute and refine procedures based upon Grant Thornton’s project management methodology, roadmap and required documentation artifacts.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
· Formal Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required.
· PMI, Six Sigma, or equivalent certification is helpful but not required.
· Experience with MS Project, MS Office, MS Visio or comparable modeling tool is required.
· Candidates must have 5+ years of successful work experience as a Business Analyst within a consulting, web/application, and/or software development organization.
· Process analysis, re-design, and documentation experience is required and sample documentation may be requested for review.
· Knowledge and experience with industry standard business analysis and workflow modeling principles and techniques for identifying, modeling, and redesigning business processes is required. Understand the principles and techniques to transition from business process analysis into defining system requirements with Use Case scenarios.
· Complimentary knowledge of the Internet, e-commerce, software solutions and trends is preferred.
· A solid understanding of both front-end and back-end application design and development including creative design, content development, multimedia design, HTML, Microsoft SharePoint, and the .NET framework is helpful.
Requisition ID: 022004
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois
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