Business Analyst
- Job Title
- Business Analyst
- Job ID
- 969023
- Location
- Southfield, MI
- Other Location
- Description
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Business Analyst
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Business Analyst is responsible for determining, at a project level, the plan (for) and execution (of) requirements elicitation, as well as formulation and curation of documentation for specific projects. This includes meeting with the stakeholders early in the project cycle to understand context and general requirements, formulating, communicating, and executing an approach, which often includes cross-capability and cross-entity collaboration among people, tools, processes. Documentation [most commonly, but not limited to 1) business requirements document, 2) functional specifications and technical requirements] is often valuably produced for both specific project use and for the benefit of the clients global knowledge base.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES- Define business analysis plan (approach):
- Understand the context, goals, and objectives.
- Formulate a business analysis plan: what will be delivered, how that would be accomplished (people, process, tools utilized for elicitation); define deliverable and milestones; explain how the deliverable will be curated thereafter (if to be included in the clients global knowledge base).
- Execute business analysis plan:
- Communicate/garner stakeholder buy-in to plan.
- Align people, process, and tools (often enabling collaboration tool workspace communities).
- Conduct elicitations, document verbatim feedback, formulate briefs/reports to iteratively (often, Agile) inform constituents.
- Develop functional specifications and technical requirements
- Curate documentation to the clients global knowledge base.
- SME and knowledge share
- Works with the various capabilities, often Technology and QA to share knowledge via meetings or connect constituents to curated knowledge in the clients global knowledge base.
- Project Execution.
- Utilizes input from supervisor and appropriately and accurately applies methods that offer most valuable results.
- Communicates well and applies project standards.
- Consistently delivers high-quality deliverables to targeted constituents, on time.
- Understands the components of running a fiscally successful project.
- Maintains and supports all company standards as specified within the Quality Management System.
- Supports/facilitates the mandatory adherence to ISO9001 requirements, processes and procedures.
- Performs other duties and projects as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:- Ability to quickly understand, solution (reconcile), document, and communicate business and technical considerations.
- Ability to meticulously coordinate multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to partner with and facilitate collaboration across technical and non-technical teams, globally.
- Refined writing and communication skills; ability to utilize standard BA tools such as flow diagrams, etc
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office stack, Atlassian collaboration stack (JIRA and Confluence). Preferred, but not required: Adobe Marketing Cloud, Axure + AxureShare; “RMsis” requirements database.
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent work experience.
- 4+ years of experience as business analyst using data and information to drive valuable outcomes.
- Experience in digital: front-end technology and foundational understanding of back-end implications
- Have physical and mental requirements to meet the above listed job responsibilities.
- Define business analysis plan (approach):