Business Analyst

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Job description

ASSYST has requirements for a Business Analyst having the experience working with Banks or financial institutions at Washington D.C.

Job Type: Contract (C2C/Corp to Corp or 1099)

Contract Duration: 1 Year (Extendable)

Job Location: Washington D.C. (Temp remote)

Responsibilities:

• Interface with the business client to understand business needs and requirements and to help develop and maintain the client relationship.
• Build stakeholder consensus and ensure everyone is on the same page, in agreement and can visualize the solution being proposed.
• Develop business cases, requirements, use cases, test plans, test strategies, test cases and operational procedures and plans.
• Document business processes and workflows.
• Craft business cases to evaluate the feasibility of technology initiatives.
• Identify business and functional requirements by working with application end-users and lead the collection, analysis, documentation and the coordination of those requirements.
• Design and execute test cases for application development and implementation projects.
• Collaborate with IT professionals to determine if solutions currently exist (internally or externally) or whether new solutions are feasible to meet business requirements.
• Leverage rapid prototyping approaches to present as-is/to-be processes/workflows and rough designs of the proposed solution.
• Maintain a comprehensive chronological trail of requirements and agreements and actively contribute to the project change control process.
• Document and manage issues and actions.
• Provide overall support to ensure the successful design, testing and implementation of applications that support the business unit.
• Provide support in developing training materials and conducting training.
• Document and manage issues and actions for IT applications and projects.
• Prepare and make presentations using MS PowerPoint and Visio to project stakeholders and management.
• Evaluate applications and IT environments, and analyze gaps between current and desired states.

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Finance.
• Role Specific Experience: 2+ years of relevant technical and business work experience.
• Banking and Financial domain experience, along with knowledge of risk management, familiarity with concepts of finance and accounting.
• Proficiency in MS Excel.
• Experience in defining and implementing technology solutions for a major financial institution.
• Experience as a Business Analyst for a large financial institution.
• Experience in gathering business requirements and developing functional specifications with special emphasis on use cases, defining test cases, and providing user training and support.
• Experience with various system development lifecycle methodologies and tailoring the artifacts to those methodologies.

ASSYST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.

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