Business Analyst

We are the leading provider of professional services to the middle market globally, our purpose is to instill confidence in a world of change, empowering our clients and people to realize their full potential. Our exceptional people are the key to our unrivaled, culture and talent experience and our ability to be compelling to our clients. You'll find an environment that inspires and empowers you to thrive both personally and professionally. There's no one like you and that's why there's nowhere like RSM.

The Business Analyst understands business problems and opportunities, recommends solutions, and leads analysis activities for high-priority projects. This role supports products, processes, and users, collaborates with business leaders and digital teams, and improves technology use by defining requirements and delivering insights.

Responsibilities:

• 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 Business Analyst Lead or other stakeholder to lead and direct analysis activities for high-priority projects requiring high degrees of functional integration
• The role includes supporting the product, processes, and users.
• Work with business leaders, system users, outside vendors and other digital teams to improve the use of technologies as a business enabler by defining detailed requirements for enhancements to the system, business process improvements, delivery of insights, and opportunities for improved operation

Strategic Business Analysis Planning & Execution

• Lead the team through analysis of the requirements creating finite written details of business requirements and design to the point the development lead indicates the story is ready for development to begin
• Participate in product road mapping
• Provide strategic recommendations for current and upcoming product work
• Assist product owners and managers with backlog management
• Influence the prioritization of the product backlog according to business value

Agile Business Analysis Planning & Execution

• Lead requirements elicitation sessions
• Document user stories and acceptance criteria
• Develop supporting documentation when applicable including state flow diagrams, data
  mapping, etc.
• Work independently and with stakeholders to develop user interface design
• Plan, document, and execute user acceptance testing (UAT) scenarios against the system, functionality, and processes during product releases and patches
• Participate in go/no-go of the release plan
• Represent the voice of the customer, providing input on product recommendations on behalf of the business
• Work with technical and QA teams to size and validate user stories

Product Support:

• Execute and complete assigned project tasks to provide quality plans, reports, and other assigned deliverables in a timely way during active projects
• Facilitate, develop, schedule, and assist with meetings, presentations, and other communications specific to the deliverable and audience
• Support issue resolution by evaluating impacts of defects on the business, working across digital teams to develop plans for resolution
• Provide process and product support individually and through collaboration with business and digital resources
• Contribute to the build and delivery of quality and efficiencies into processes and project deliverables
• Support the development of training and process materials
• Collaborate with project team members to solve implementation issues and business problems
• Contribute to the build and delivery of change management plans

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience
• Proficient in MS Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio.
• Experience with Workday Financials
• Basic understanding of accounting principles and practices
• Ability to analyze and document backend system information such as data mapping andmicroservice components
• Knowledge of defect tracking processes and tools
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and consult effectively with
  employees at all levels
• Strong knowledge of product design and user experience design concepts
• Strong organizational and multi-tasking ability
• Good communication skills both written and spoken
• Ability to prioritize across many projects and deadlines
• Strong attention to detail, motivation, and initiative
• Minimum of 2 years of business analysis experience working in a development environment
• Knowledge of product management concepts and how enterprise software products arepositioned and developed
• Experience working with 3rd party and vendor relationships
• Experience with both structured and object-oriented analysis techniques
• Proven experience in operational business process improvement
• Experience leading a team of resources for the coordinated delivery of large or complexprojects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
• Strong knowledge of basic and advanced business analysis techniques and strategies
• Strong knowledge of the Agile Framework with a focus in Scrum, Scaled Agile, andKanban methodologies

At RSM, we offer a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our people.We offer flexibility in your schedule, empowering you to balance life's demands, while also maintaining your ability to serve clients.Learn more about our total rewards at https://rsmus.com/careers/working-at-rsm/benefits.

All applicants will receive consideration for employment as RSM does not tolerate discrimination and/or harassment based on race; color; creed; sincerely held religious beliefs, practices or observances; sex (including pregnancy or disabilities related to nursing); gender; sexual orientation; HIV Status; national origin; ancestry; familial or marital status; age; physical or mental disability; citizenship; political affiliation; medical condition (including family and medical leave); domestic violence victim status; past, current or prospective service in the US uniformed service; US Military/Veteran status; pre-disposing genetic characteristics or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process and/or employment/partnership.RSM is committed to providing equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, interview, or otherwise participate in the recruiting process, please call us at 800-274-3978 or send us an email at careers@rsmus.com.

RSM does not intend to hire entry level candidates who will require sponsorship now OR in the future (i.e. F-1 visa holders). If you are a recent U.S. college / university graduate possessing 1-2 years of progressive and relevant work experience in a same or similar role to the one for which you are applying, excluding internships, you may be eligible for hire as an experienced associate.

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At RSM, an employee's pay at any point in their career is intended to reflect their experiences, performance, and skills for their current role. The salary range (or starting rate for interns and associates) for this role represents numerous factors considered in the hiring decisions including, but not limited to, education, skills, work experience, certifications, location, etc. As such, pay for the successful candidate(s) could fall anywhere within the stated range.