Business Analyst

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for a Business Analyst for a 6 month contract opportunity.  The position is located in Toronto.

The Role

• The Business Analyst is a proficient practitioner that has an in-depth knowledge of all areas of practice, is able to routinely produce high quality requirements in complex and exceptional situations without supervision and can effectively guide or supervise the work of others. Intuitively assess the best course of action to take in a given situation and understand when and how to apply guidelines.  
• Acting in a business consultancy role, identifying client's business and systems process strengths/ weaknesses and suggest areas of improvement. 
• The BA will lead with the development of business cases and determining whether they are viable and warrant investment of company resources. 
• As a member of a project team, the BA is responsible for collaboration and communication with internal customers and external vendors to analyze information needs and functional/non functional requirements in order to deliver the necessary project artifacts. 

Requirements

• BA Planning & Monitoring: Selects appropriate business analysis approach. Evaluates project complexity, assumptions, constraints and dependencies. Identifies all stake holders and determines their influence and relationship needs. Develops a work plan to manage own and team’s activities, tasks, deliverables and schedules. Develops effective communication plan to meet project and stakeholder needs.  Plans requirements approval and change. Identifies and communicates risks and issues that may require changes to plans or scope.
• Elicitation: Ensures appropriate stakeholders are involved in elicitation activities, Obtains needed information from stakeholders to form requirements, Captures information provided in elicitation sessions. Validates requirements with stakeholder.
• Requirements Management & Communication: Obtains the needed approvals on solution requirements, and manages changes to requirements.  Manages conflicts and issues to resolution, Traces requirements from business case to implemented solution. Prepares requirements documentation and presents in understandable format, ensures stakeholders have a shared understanding of requirements. Assesses impacts of changes to requirements.
• Requirements Analysis: Prioritizes requirements effectively based on factors including business value, cost to deliver, time constraints. Understands appropriate use of various analysis techniques.  Develops models that describe a business domain. Ensures that requirements and models meet the needed quality to effectively guide further work. Ensures that all requirements support the delivery of business value, fulfills goals and objectives, and meets a stakeholder needs.
• Solution Assessment and Validation: Assesses solution proposals and demonstrate which proposal will be most effective, Allocates stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components to maximize business value. Assesses the organizational readiness for the new solution. Defines capabilities and requirements to support transition to new solutions Validates that the solution meets the business need, Measures and evaluates solutions for value and opportunities.
• Participate in project assessments and the creation of the corresponding business cases
• Develop and maintain business process documentation and understand interdependencies of our clients systems
• Maintains domain Application-System knowledge and keeps abreast of new technology developments in key areas of responsibilities
• Identify areas for process improvement opportunities and facilitate implementation, including quality assurance for deliverables and change management guidance
• Be an integral part of the project team that delivers IT projects on time, within budget and scope
• Communicate and apply standards based on the clients project methodology
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings/presentations with various levels of management
• Maintain ongoing, proactive relationships with internal and external teams (Vendors, Business and IT Stakeholders).
• Work on multiple initiatives simultaneously

Qualified Candidates will have:

• Bachelors Degree in a business or technical discipline
• Minimum 5 years of prior Business Analyst experience, preferably within Retail.
• Infrastructure related experience
• Basic SQL &/or UNIX knowledge
• Strong leadership, decision-making and problem solving ability
• Detail oriented with strong organizational, facilitation and presentation skills
• Knowledge of SDLC and project methodology
• Experience in System/Application implementation and integration
• Experience in business process re-engineering
• Develop maps in Visio - advanced knowledge of Visio is required
• May use ARIS for mapping some processes (ARIS knowledge is preferred but not required)
• Conduct one on one data gathering sessions with SME’s
• Be the scribe at larger workshops which will be facilitated by others
• Conduct review sessions with SME’s as initial maps are completed

Key Words:  Retail, ARIS, Visio, SDLC  

The following are additions to the differentiators –

• Will work almost exclusively on the process modeling component of the project and will complete many of the associated duties such as –
  • The process mapping workshops sometimes requires pre-workshop interviews of participants.  Will participate in this activity
  • Scribe at process mapping workshops
  • Facilitate some process mapping workshops
  • Record workshop results in process models – using Visio
  • Support the validation & revision process.
  • Finalize all process models
• Develop maps in Visio - advanced knowledge of Visio is required
• may use ARIS for mapping some processes (ARIS knowledge is preferred but not required)
• conduct one on one data gathering sessions with SME’s
• be the scribe at larger workshops which will be facilitated by others
• conduct review sessions with SME’s as initial maps are completed
• manage versioning and archiving of documentation

How to Apply

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