Senior Business Systems Analyst
Job Summary
The Senior Business Systems Analyst acts as a key liaison between clients and the development team to translate business objectives into functional digital solutions. You will be responsible for gathering requirements, configuring products, and facilitating demos to ensure successful client onboarding and implementation. This remote role requires a blend of technical expertise and consultative skills to drive digital transformation strategies.
Responsibilities
- Translate business requirements into technical use cases
- Configure digital products and manage client onboarding
- Facilitate design reviews and project documentation (BRD, functional specs)
- Perform QA testing during development and go-live phases
- Act as a liaison between stakeholders and technical teams
Required Skills
- 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst
- Proficiency in Agile SDLC and BABOK
- Technical experience with XML, HTML, and CSS
- Expertise in JIRA and MS Office Suite
- Strong consultative and presentation skills
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Balance technology and business issues, communicate appropriately with both technology and business experts, such as standard product functionality, configurability vs customization.
- Conduct design review meetings with system architects and product development team to discuss and document technical approaches to client requested custom functionality.
- Accountable for being a product SME across available functions, features, and configurations.
- Highly skilled in consultative needs analysis and able to demonstrate the value of available features vs custom development requests.
- Create, manage and maintain all project deliverables including business requirements documents (BRD), functional specifications, process flows, client-specific user guides and test scripts.
- Work with Solutions Architects, Solutions Analysts, and Project Managers on the technical solution planning and delivery.
- Participate in IT meetings as needed to transfer knowledge of the client's business objectives, evaluate conceptual designs, or confirm deliverables as required.
- Act as liaison between all project stakeholders including Business, Product Owners, Development, Quality Assurance, Project Management and Client Support to ensure understanding of requirements, project objectives, and solutions.
- Ensure the digital solutions defined meet the needs of clients with solid use cases and business requirements.
- Proactively improve processes to promote better quality and more scalable deployments.
- Perform duties and make sophisticated decisions and recommendations under limited supervision.
- Facilitate configuration meetings with clients and implement product configurations.
- Capture, document, and memorialize configurations for use in supporting the client and internal team uses to thoroughly understand and use the program.
- Perform quality assurance testing during the development phase and go-live.
- Provide ad hoc analysis and reporting.
- Provide demonstrations and training to internal and external stakeholders.
- Occasional travel may be required.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years working experience as a Senior Business Systems Analyst/BSA.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and experience at dealing with clients/users at all levels, single and in groups.
- Presentation skills of technical solutions to business audiences.
- At least 3 years working with in an agile system development life cycle environment, best practices required to implement effective solutions.
- Ability to work on multiple tasks at any one time while maintaining high quality standards and prioritization.
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem- solving skills, specific to highly technical and customer focused service environment.
- Highly motivated self-starter willing and able to learn a great deal of information in a short period of time.
- Ability to work independently or as a team member on projects of varying size and scope.
- Ability to quickly adapt to constantly changing requirements and business needs.
- Strong problem solving, analytical, negotiation and writing skills.
- Strong experience with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio).
- Strong experience with SharePoint, JIRA.
- Working experience with Agile SDLC Methodologies.
- Working knowledge of the BABOK and XML, HTML and CSS.
- Experience in the marketing industry a plus.
- Experience in the financial industry a plus.