Sr. Business Analyst
- Job Title
- Sr. Business Analyst
- Job ID
- 945105
- Location
- Lenexa, KS 66214-1603
- Other Location
- Description
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Job Description
Our Client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst in Kansas City.
SUMMARY
This position is in a dynamic and crucial area of the company. The candidate will work with business stakeholders, management, and software engineers to craft business solutions for enterprise-wide impact.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum 3 years of experience as a Business Analyst or related field
- Experience in Agile Development environment
- Experience working with Kanban Boards
- Should have experience with Visio
- Will be developing Use Case Scenarios
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred
- MS TFS
- Understands software development
- Comfortable in a collaborative work environment
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Researches, analyzes, creates, and maintains applicable Policies & Procedures.
- Manages department processes to ensure compliance and that deadlines are met.
- Defines, documents, and publishes processes. Observes existing practices across multiple departments with similar functions and looks for opportunities to optimize practices and processes.
- Supports collection and interpretation of business information.
- Diagrams and evaluates existing processes.
- Collects data to identify root cause of problems.
- Develops metrics that provide data for process measurement, identifying indicators for future improvement opportunities.
- Measures performance against process requirements. Aligns improvement to performance shortfalls.
- Performs Impact Analysis of all recommended changes and standards. Presents and defends recommendations to mid-management and senior level management.
- Interrelates KPIs and adjusts business variables to improve the effectiveness of the measurements used.
- Analyzes trends and provides correlated studies of potential changes and outcomes.
- Provides advanced “what if” analysis and business intelligence.
- Participates in post-project reviews to determine effectiveness, pertinence and timeliness of newly recommended processes. Identifies processes that are effective and works to change processes in need of further refinement.
- Provides consultation on the use of re-engineering techniques to improve process performance and product quality. May deliver presentations and training courses including measurement, analysis, improvement and control.
- Analyzes high volumes of data from multiple sources.
- Tracks the appropriate market space.
- Performs Cost-Benefit and other forms of analyses.
- May assist less experienced peers.