Senior IT Business Analyst

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CLA, one of the nation's largest public accounting and professional services firm is currently seeking a Senior IT Business Analyst to join our growing Enterprise Business Solutions team.

Position Summary:

The Sr. IT Business Analyst will support and translate business needs into technical requirements for modification, implementation, or conversion of business systems or processes. They also ensure all solutions support and conform to business needs and specifications. They will interact on a regular basis with other IT architects and team members, business users, Managers, and Principals. They will also work with external vendors. The position allows you the opportunity to work from home as well! The ideal candidate would enjoy collaborating with a team and contributing ideas, have the ability to work with multiple personality styles, and be solution driven. This opportunity provides growth, skill advancement and work life balance.

As a Senior IT Business Analyst, you will:

Business Analysis:

• Collaborate with business groups to identify, document and communicate business needs and provide IT solutions
• Perform current state analysis of existing business systems, applications and functions
• Document, analyze and assess current business processes and underlying systems/applications
• Plan, elicit, capture, analyze and validate business, functional and technical requirements

Project Planning:

• Facilitate requirements elicitation sessions and walkthroughs with business and IT resources
• Answer questions and clarify requirements for projects and enhancements during the estimation process
• Produce timely and high-quality requirements-related work products, including requirement specifications, process flows, mock-ups and qualifications
• Collaborate with other departments and IT to develop business cases associated with new project requests

Systems Support:

• Plan, facilitate and execute system/functional testing and UAT for projects and enhancements
• Understand the relationships, dependencies and impact of neighboring business functions
• Knowledge of core systems, applications and technical platforms
• Coordinate tactical-related business requests for IT development enhancements

Technical Competencies:

• Proficient in modeling/mapping as-is and to-be business processes, test planning, test case development and execution.
• Proficiency with Agile / Lean methodologies, Microsoft Project, Office, Azure DevOps and process mapping applications.

As our ideal candidate, you have:

• Experience: 4+ years of overall IT experience including software development processes, planning, facilitating, eliciting, documenting and managing business, functional and technical requirements
• Education: Bachelor's degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and 4 years of Business Analyst experience
• Certification/ Licenses: None required
• Expected travel less 10%

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