Senior Business Analyst
Crowe
2021-12-03 08:50:24
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Consulting & Corporate Strategy
Job description
Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:
At Crowe, you have the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions to today's complex business issues. Crowe's accounting, consulting, and technology personnel are widely recognized for their in-depth expertise and understanding of sophisticated process frameworks and enabling technologies, along with their commitment to delivering measurable results that help clients build business value. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a "Best Place to Work." We are 75 years strong and still growing. Come grow with us!
Job Description:
Crowe is seeking a talented and driven Senior Business Analyst in our Product Engineering practice. This individual will assume a business analyst role on a Scrum team that is responsible for building out a service delivery platform for our Internal Audit practice in Consulting. Primary responsibilities include leading requirements elicitation, documentation, analysis of data, story creation, and refinement for the team. This individual should have a passion for continuous improvement, innovation, and a history of successful software delivery and leadership within an Agile Scrum team.
- Develop product and industry acumen in order to converse with terminology that has meaning and context to the Product Manager, subject matter experts, and Scrum team
- Schedule, coordinate, and facilitate agile ceremonies and working sessions with the Product Manager and stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and refine work for the Scrum team
- Lead backlog management for the Scrum team of certain features including prioritization of backlog items
- Ability to translate business needs into consumable features/stories for the development team
- During the sprint, collaborate within the Scrum team on requirements clarification and elevate issues to the Product Team when needed
- Collaborate across Scrum teams to manage dependencies and ensure risks are proactively managed
- Work with the Scrum team to demonstrate work to the Product Manager and ensure it complies with the Definition of Done (DoD)
- Embrace the Shift Left mindset and weave quality early into the development lifecycle
- Help triage issues with the Scrum team and ensure appropriate documentation
- Create visuals (mock-ups, matrixes, etc.) and perform hands-on data analysis to help drive discussions with Product Manager stakeholders, and Scrum team
- Serve as a user community advocate, providing provide business vision and context to the development team to maximize user adoption and satisfaction
- Facilitate user focus groups to elicit and prioritize requirements and to obtain user feedback
- Collaborate with the Content and Methodology team to develop user help documentation, and to develop and deliver user training as needed
- Contribute thought leadership for continuous improvement of team processes
- Represent the application team in firmwide initiatives and assist with defining integration requirements
- Contribute thought leadership to the product roadmap for certain features, identifying iterative delivery approaches
- 5+ years of BA or Product Owner experience
- Proficient level of understanding of Product Development and Software Development Life Cycles
- Solid experience with Agile Scrum methodology
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; able to collaborate effectively with people from many different disciplines
- Proactive, self-starter, ability to manage multiple tasks effectively
- High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability
- Experience working with Azure DevOps or similar tool
- Agile or other BA related certification
- Experience with data analysis/modeling and reporting/data visualization solutions
- Experience with SharePoint-based application development
About the Team:
Product Engineering professionals at Crowe lead the software development efforts for the firm and build technology solutions in a consistent and reliable way. Product Engineering owns the software development competency for the firm, which is tied to standardized processes, practices, policies and controls for client-facing products and projects. Team members share expertise across various industries, targeting manufacturing and distribution, government, healthcare, financial services, and private equity groups based on demand from other Business Units. You will learn and build on a wide range of technologies in an environment where innovation and new ideas are highly encouraged. Hop on board to join one of the fastest growing technology consulting practices in the industry.
Our Benefits:
At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!
How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!
More about Crowe:
Crowe () is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.
Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.