Raining Virtue is looking for a dynamic and experienced business analyst to contribute to our team-centric, professional services organization.
Characteristics:
- Work alongside other business analysts and report directly to the project manager
- Perform detailed requirements analysis, documenting processes, and performing some user acceptance testing
- To be successful in this role you should have a natural analytical way of thinking and be able to explain difficult concepts to non-technical users
Responsibilities:
- 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 bachelor’s degree in business or related field or an MBA
- 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
- Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations
- Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
- A history of leading and supporting successful projects
- MS Project experience required
- MS Office tools experience (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Visio)
- PMP/PMI or equivalent certification preferred
- Agile experience and/or certification preferred