Business Analyst

Responsibilities: 

• Under general direction, formulate and define system scope and objectives using knowledge of information technology and industry knowledge/requirements.
• Act as a liaison between customer and technical solutions/support groups, using strong communication skills to elicit, document, analyze and validate business processes, systems, and solution requirements.
• Research, identify, and specify solutions to problems.
• Support and conduct visualization, user experience and configuration elements of solution design.
• Document requirements specifications using high-maturity methods, processes and tools.eg (Microsoft Visio or Lucid Chart )
• Support requirements management and change management processes.
• Support aspects of the business cycle, including proposals, feasibility studies, and implementations.
• Should have a strong understanding of product, use cases, user journey (flow), business requirements and integration

Requirements: 

• Business Analysts in this role will have successfully demonstrated the following skills.
• Requirements Elicitation - researching, interviewing.
• Requirements Determination - using structured, repeatable processes for documenting, analysing and validating requirements.
• Structured Requirements- capturing details with precision; driving out ambiguity; ensuring consistent understanding across clients, designers and testers.
• Scope Management - defining scope, managing expectations, identifying potential change
• Requirements Management - creating and maintaining baselines and traceability
• Change Management - identifying, assessing and managing changes
• Creativity and Problem Solving - bringing innovative ideas to complex problems
• Collaboration - building relationships and working effectively with internal and external teams, at all organisational levels
• Verbal: explaining, questioning, exploring and listening
• Written: presenting information and communicating concepts to business and technical audiences at all levels.
• Flexibility: Candidates must be flexible and able to adapt quickly and confidently to rapidly changing roles, objectives, and priorities.
• Educational background should include a Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline or a Master's degree

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
• Staying up-to-date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.
• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
• Performing requirements analysis.
• Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts.
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
• Working closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff.
• Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.
• Allocating resources and maintaining cost efficiency.
• Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements.
• Performing user acceptance testing.
• Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.
• Updating, implementing, and maintaining procedures.
• Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Serving as a liaison between stakeholders and users.
• Managing competing resources and priorities.
• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.

 Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in business analysis or a related field.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
• Advanced technical skills.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• A track record of following through on commitments.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Experience leading and developing top-performing teams.
• A history of leading and supporting successful projects.

Business Analyst JD:

We are looking for a Business Analyst who will be the vital link between our information technology capacity and our business objectives by supporting and ensuring the successful completion of analytical, building, testing and deployment tasks of our software product’s features.

Must have skills and qualifications:

• Define configuration specifications and business analysis requirements
• Perform quality assurance
• Define reporting and alerting requirements
• Own and develop relationships with partners, working with them to optimize and enhance our integration
• Help design, document, and maintain system processes
• Report on common sources of technical issues or questions and make recommendations to the product team
• Communicate key insights and findings to the product team
• Constantly be on the lookout for ways to improve monitoring, discover issues, and deliver better value to the customer

•  Systems Analysis or Quality Assurance
• Proven experience in eliciting requirements and testing
• Experience in analysing data to draw business-relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools
• Solid experience in writing SQL queries
• Basic knowledge in generating process documentation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing skills

   Primary Responsibilities

• Full understanding of the PIM data model
• Create conceptual data models, data flow documentation and user workflow processes

• Complete analysis needed to normalize and harmonize data attributes for the PIM and Data Governance tool

• Support needed for data governance documentation such as data dictionary and data lineage

• Lead discovery meetings with business owners to evaluate current PIM system and processes to document a recommended solution design of PIM for stakeholder review

• Document business requirements for data attributes, taxonomy, hierarchy, workflow and procedures in the PIM

• Leveraging agreed to solution design to configure the PIM system with the needed attributes, business rules, validations and workflow to ensure the business need is satisfied

• Define test cases and develop and execute test plans
• Identify and communicate the level of effort associated to new requirements that are received to be leveraged to establish release schedule for new demand

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 2-3 years' relevant experience required; 5- 7 years' work experience preferred

• Responsible for collecting all in-scope business requirements
• Able to prioritize requirements and negotiate on deployment timeframes on behalf of the development team
• Ability to perform detailed analysis to ensure all aspects of the business requirement are understood
• Able to formalize business requirements, ready for two way communication business communications up and technical communications down
• Capable of managing all non-technical aspects of the new requirements
• Capable of working with the test team to develop/ review test scripts and profile of test data
• Able to produce ad-hoc SQL queries/ ad-hoc reports that can be used to monitor success of the new requirement by ensuring data is being created as it should
• Must have worked on medium to large size custom application development projects and has exposure to all phases of the SDLC
• Experience in Insurance Domain is a must
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office tools
• Get actively involved in various project phases
• Act as a key interface between users and development teams
• Technology Graduate: B.Sc IT, MSc IT / B.Tech, M.Tech/ BCA, MCA