Business Analyst Sr-Finance

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Job description

Business Analyst Sr-Finance

Davenport,IA
Finance

Job Description

Req ID: req23309

Business Analyst Sr-Finance Summary:

Works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and information systems. The senior business analyst's primary responsibility is to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. Under general direction of Finance Business, leads and directs analysis activities for high-priority projects requiring high degree of understanding their business strategies. Leads and directs analysis activities for high-priority projects requiring high degrees of functional integration.

Requirements Gathering

Prepare for and conduct requirements elicitation sessions using a variety of techniques including but not limited to:

• brainstorming, interviews, surveys, requirements workshops, observation, task and workflow analysis, prototyping, storyboarding, document analysis, interface analysis, and focus group sessions
• Document elicitation results and validate with stakeholders to ensure stated requirements align with stakeholders' understanding of the requirements

Requirements Analysis

• Work with stakeholders, sponsor, and project manager to prioritize requirements and agree on assumptions and constraints
• Organize, model, and specify requirements with the appropriate level of detail given complexity, risk, and audience
• Work with stakeholders, sponsor, and project team to verify and validate requirements through review of requirements

Requirements Management & Communication

• Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely
• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional and nonfunctional requirements, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by project team members who base their work on the requirements
• Represent requirements using alternative views (ex. models/diagrams) where appropriate
• Communicate requirements to ensure all stakeholders have a shared understanding of the solution and to secure approval from stakeholders with the authority to approve
• Manage issues and changes to baselined requirements by identifying business impact of the changes and through effective application of change control processes and tools
• Manage traceability of requirements to ensure alignment to project goals and objectives as well as alignment to development and testing plans
• Manage requirements documentation for reuse

You want your next step to be the right one. You've worked hard to get where you are today. And now you're ready to use your unique skills, talents and personality to achieve great things. RSM is a place where you are valued as an individual, mentored as a future leader, and recognized for your accomplishments and potential. Working directly with clients, key decision makers and business owners across various industries and geographies, you'll move quickly along the learning curve and our clients will benefit from your fresh perspective.

Experience RSM US. Experience the power of being understood.

RSM is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.

Location Street Address: 4650 E 53rd St, Davenport, IA 52807 USA
Region: National
Position Type: Experienced
Job Type: Full Time
Degree Required: None
Travel Required: Yes
Sponsor candidates who are not eligible to work in US: No
Requisition ID: req23309