Business Analyst

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Job description

Looking for an experienced Business Analyst with detailed knowledge and experience of requirements management methodologies, requirement elicitation, documentation, and management in a financial or similar type system, and to perform various business analysis activities related to system implementation and enhancement projects or work efforts. The Business Analyst will be responsible for following either a hybrid System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology or agile/iterative development or implementation/customization approach while working with a variety of business areas on the elicitation and documentation of business and systems requirements with a primary focus on the implementation of a Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse (BI & DW) solution with business areas throughout the enterprise.

Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: West Sacramento, CA
Duration: Up to 24 months, with an option to extend up to 12 additional months

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• At least seven (7) years of experience within the last ten (10) years working as a Business Analyst with large organizations, leading or participating in the technical implementation of software/systems/applications automating complex business processes, performing any of the following:

  • Assessment of analysis scope and tasks

  • Planning business analysis tasks

  • Facilitating joint application design (JAD) and/or collaborative design sessions

  • Elicitation, definitions, and documentation of various business, user, and system requirements

  • Analysis for business process improvement, application design, and workflow automation

  • Modeling and documenting functional designs

  • Leading and working within cross-functional teams that include business subject matter experts, application architects, developers, and testers

• At least seven (7) years of experience within the last ten (10) years producing business analysis deliverables such as any of the following:

  • Business requirements and business rules

  • Functional requirements and/or functional specifications

  • Non-functional requirements

  • Stakeholder requests

  • Procurement documentation

  • Transition plans and/or implementation requirements

  • Traceability matrices

• At least three (3) years of experience using Rational Requisite Pro, HP ALM, Jama, or other requirement gathering tools to document functional and non-functional requirements, design specifications, and provide full traceability for projects.

DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Experience as a Business Analyst with the State or Federal government.

• Experience as a Business Analyst leading or participating in the technical implementation - especially Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solutions including the following areas of focus.

  • Financial-related data: annual or final compensation, service credit, contributions, interest, payables, receivables, various benefit factor types, benefit formula calculations, payroll deductions, Medicare data, etc.

  • Investments-related data: portfolio performance and management, investment exposure, private and real estate asset classes, risk exposure, rate of return, net asset value, benchmark, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Sustainable Investments, and Stewardship Strategies data.

  • Service Level Goals and Objective related data and administration related audit data.

  • A wide variety of dashboarding, forecasting, and modeling including existing pre-defined reports for various business areas.

• IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP or CCBA).

• Experience in agile methodology or Scaled Agile Framework.

• Experience acting as a project manager for software development or implementation projects.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related fields from an accredited or government-sanctioned college/university.

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