Senior Business Analyst
hace 4 días
New York
B&H Photo builds many custom applications for its internal teams to effectively execute upon their responsibilities. A business analyst is a unique creative role that helps translate the requirements for the business teams to effectively build technology solutions. Business Analyst Job Responsibilities: • Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users., • Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision. Works on prioritizing requirements and creating MVP solutions that can bring maximum value with minimal effort., • Utilizes their creative abilities to put together wireframes and mockups to solve for business challenges using technology solutions., • Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team., • Clearly identifies project stakeholders and conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods., • Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics., • Works with stakeholders and project team to create prioritize collected requirements., • Researches, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes., • Assists in conducting research on products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts., • Participates in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized., • Participates in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use., • Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards., • Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications., • Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team., • Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted., • Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options and communicating these back to the business stakeholders., • Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary., • Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood. Qualifications / Skills: • Strong customer service orientation, • Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills, • Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills, • Excellent process oriented mindset to build out new workflows, • Excellent documentation and wireframing skills., • Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail, • Highly self-motivated and directed, • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure, • Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements: • College diploma or university degree in the field of business administration, finance, or information systems, • Three to five years related work experience, • Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development, • Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources, • Working knowledge of Windows office systems, • Excellent understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives Must have Skills/Experience: • Retail background and understanding of the supply chain process., • Experience gathering business, functional and integration requirements for custom applications, vendor packaged applications (ERP, CRM etc.) including SaaS based applications., • Experience writing requirements in User Stories format/exposure to iterative/agile methodologies.