Business Analyst
PMCS Services, Inc. ·Austin, TXClosing in
$60 - $70 Hourly
Term:Full timeWork:Remote
Type:EmployeeContract
We are looking for a Full-time contractor or employee for a Business Analyst role.
Job Description
Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems to make business more effective. Familiar with industry standard business process mapping, and reengineering. Prepares solution options, risk identification, and financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, etc. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
Responsibilities:
Job Description
Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems to make business more effective. Familiar with industry standard business process mapping, and reengineering. Prepares solution options, risk identification, and financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, etc. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
Responsibilities:
- Gather, analyze, and document user requirements, business processes, and problems to automate or improve existing systems; elicit and document business needs for new systems.
- Analyze program policies and procedures to determine their effect on automated systems and system functional areas.
- Assist in requirements gathering.
- Identify opportunities for improving business processes through automation and assist in the preparation of proposals to develop new systems.
- Assist with reviewing and preparing complex project management deliverables such as project charters, project plans, test plans, and risk management plans.
- Consult on the analysis of an application, troubleshoots system problems, and recommend solutions.
- Provide quality assurance consultation to projects, assignments, or special initiatives.
- Develop and review test cases; process change requests; and manage a project’s scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment.
- Maintain assigned business relationships with vendors, seek best value for new and renewing technologies, and review and approve monthly and annual invoices.
Required Skills:
- Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
- Independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected
- Coordinate with outside vendors and contractors to complete projects and service requests; and defines, assigns, and evaluates their work
- Develop training curricula and conduct formal training sessions covering assigned systems modules
- Identify opportunities to improve business processes through automation and help prepare proposals to develop new systems
- Review complex project deliverables such as charters, design documentation, test plans, and risk assessment plans; and provide comments and suggestions to document owners
- Develop the design and/or review of test cases; processes change requests
- Provide complex quality assurance consultation to, or oversight of, projects, assignments, or special initiatives
- served as a liaison between the Business community and Customer IT Teams (i.e., Architecture, Project Delivery, Application Sustain, etc.
- Consult on the analysis of an application, troubleshoots system problems, and implements solutions
Preferred Skills:
- work experience with Agile methodology and user story analysis
- Strong experience as a Data Analyst in analyzing raw data, and as a Business Analyst in requirements gathering, understanding technology, and any project management experience with PMP