Business Systems Analyst II (Remote)

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Job description

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client in Jacksonville, FL that is seeking a Business Systems Analyst II to join their team from a remote environment.

Summary:
The client is looking for Business industry professionals who elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate business/user requirements for processes, policies, and information systems. The Business Systems Analyst will translate these business needs/end-user requirements into functional specifications that describe what the system, process or product/service must do to fulfill the end-user/business requirements.

Key Tasks:
* Business Systems Analyst influences business partners and service providers regarding priorities, hardware/software selection and/or vendor selection
* Analyzes marketplace, industry, company, technology trends and best practices, vendor products and services, etc.
* Identifies and documents business strategies, objectives, and drivers
* Analyzes and documents business processes and metrics, and identifies improvement opportunities
* As a Business Systems Analyst, you calculate/estimate costs and benefits of alternative actions or solutions to establish their viability/ROI
* Re-engineers processes to deliver greater effectiveness and efficiency
* Identifies/documents how applications and systems interact to support business processes.
* Assesses, applies, and projects the impact of system changes on users and internal and external clients or stakeholders
* Uses knowledge of systems and industry requirements to develop or modify complex information systems
* Writes test plans and test cases to ensure changes which are made to the application meet client needs and that application integrity is maintained
* Conducts a variety of tests such as system, integration, readiness, and acceptance tests; Business Systems Analysts ensures that the changes made by programmers are correct

REQUIREMENTS:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience; Master's degree desirable
* Knowledge of financial services industry
* Knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles, (i.e., waterfall, iterative and other modern approaches to software development)
* Proficiency in solutions design and requirements definition disciplines leveraging model driven design-based tools and techniques including conceptual solution component models, business process models, use cases, etc.
* Excellent customer service skills that build high levels of customer satisfaction for internal and external clients
* Ability to estimate work effort for project sub-plans or small projects and ensure the project is successfully completed
* Strong communication skills
* Team player and collaborative
* Strong work ethic
* Strategic and creative thinking

Added bonus if you have: (Optional)
* Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
* Agile experience
* Agile Central/Rally

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