Business Systems Analyst

This position is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and creating comprehensive work products documenting requirements, including validation and traceability, for existing and new applications supporting various business channels. This position understands how organizations function to accomplish their purpose, and defines capabilities an organization requires to provide a service or meet their goals. This position facilitates communication between organizational units to align the needs of business units in order to create requirement work products for solution providers. This role plans, directs and completes the analysis of business problems to be solved or product/services to be developed for delivery. This role provides technical assistance in identifying, evaluating and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet user requirements. This role assesses system impacts, provides gap and process analysis as well as cost/benefit analysis for system or product/service related initiatives. Identifies stakeholders and determines requirements. Reviews vendor products to best meet requirements. Mapping existing functions. Works with Sales and Operations. Acts as a liaison between the user community and internal IT resources. SKILLS:

MINIMUM REQUIRED SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:
Minimum of 5 - 8+ years of systems analysis experience with understanding strategic business information systems
Experience with UAT, and JAD (Joint Application Design) with EIT
New system implementation preferred, replacing an existing system. Implementation of a new application
Solid understanding of BSA best practice principles and has applied practice; demonstrated ability to apply BABOK principles required.
Solid understanding of multiple system development life-cycle mythologies
Migration of existing application, data to new platform
Proven ability to effectively apply techniques which consists of textual formats, modals and diagrams.
Ability to quickly understand and map the existing functions.
Solid understanding of business process and system process within multiple knowledge areas
Excellent written and communication skills; effectively communication with all employee levels and levels of management.
Work with multiple teams, manage multiple team workshops quickly
Proven experience with identifying and resolving requirement impacting issues, working with members of project management team and business SME's/executives to develop and implement viable solutions.
Demonstrated track record of strong consulting skills and experience to bridge the gap between technology and business operations to enable organizations to make effective decisions.
Certificate in Business Systems Analysis (preferably in a quantitative discipline) or equivalent work experience
Technical writing skills producing clear and unambiguous deliverables
Must be proficient and have experience using MS Office (Excel, Work, PowerPoint) and Visio

PREFERRED SKILLS:
- 8-10 years experience creating Requirement, Functional Specification, & Test Requirement documents required
- 8-10 years experience with supporting both purchased and in-house developed required
- 8-10 years experience in software development, software design or business process design (example: process modeling, use case analysis, etc) and implementation
- 4 years minimum Project Management, Management, Team Lead, or other equivalent leadership experience - 8-10 years experience with a formal SDLC
- 8-10 years experience developing business solutions with a variety of tools
- 8-10 years experience in telecommunications industry preferred