Lead Consultant - Business Systems Analyst

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Lead business requirements gathering, analysis, and transition of business needs into a software production environment

• Facilitate communication between IT, business units and clients • Act as liaison between business units and internal partners/external vendors by providing accurate and timely updates to all stakeholders and taking a proactive role in solution definition

• Assist business partners to identify and clarify their goals and IT requirements

• Conduct requirements gathering, analysis and design, risk analysis, risk mitigation, programming/construction, unit testing and transition of applications into a production environment

• Produce concisely written and detailed business requirements

• Translate business requirements to functional and technical specifications

• Analyze and develop applications to meet business process initiatives

• Define and document business process requirements through written external/internal specifications

• Define parameters and turn into concrete cost estimates, outcomes and project scope

• Communicate technical solutions across departments to both technical and non-technical staff

• Conduct regularly scheduled reviews of newly proposed and existing projects to ensure quality and accuracy is delivered to end users

• Ensure delivery of IT solution is on schedule and fully functional

• Oversee submission of change requests and production releases and weekly status reports

• Identify and implement productivity and quality control improvements

• Ensure integrated requirements management across multiple IT groups and SBUs/FCEs

• Apply industry-standard analysis and documentation techniques to assist in organizing project work

• Follow SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) processes

Mentor junior staff members in business and technical analysis techniques, processes and procedures

• Adhere to ethical standards and comply with the laws and regulations applicable to the job function

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

• Strong experience with software testing standards, practices, methods and tools
• Excellent planning, organization and problem identification skills
• • Excellent information and data analysis skills
• • Prior experience in financial applications preferred
• • Demonstrated problem solving ability
• • Excellent technical and business terminology to consult with clients, vendors and other internal staff
• • Proven ability to work effectively on multiple projects simultaneously (balance workload)
• • Ability to issue direction in a collaborative, team-based environment

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE - 

• A Bachelors degree in Information Systems, Information Processing or business-related curricula, or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired is necessary.

• Minimum 6-8 years of progressively responsible experience in IT Project Management, business analysis and/or software development