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Role: Business Analyst Location: Madison, WI Duration: I year and potential extension for 2 years Position Description:
- Lead and participate on teams representing the business needs to technical staff and
- Facilitate discussions among all appropriate technical and business staff to clarify
- Analyze and document business rules, business and technical requirements, and system
- Review existing and proposed rules, policies, and procedures for impact on current and
- Coordinate department business program specialist and technical staff efforts to clarify,
- Create documentation of process and system development changes, and assist business
- Track system problems and their resolution using DFI's help desk ticking system, bug-
- Provide guidance and consultation on issues specific to applications and business
- Assist QA Team and business to develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and
- Analyze issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in
- Document user-acceptance test criteria and conduct user/system acceptance testing.
- Provide thorough feedback to business and technical staff regarding needed
- Analyze business data integrity throughout the project.
- Engage with 3rd party vendors, business and technical staff to introduce and implement
- Knowledge of project management principles, methods and practices.
- Considerable knowledge of business process documentation, analysis and design.
- Advanced knowledge of business requirements gathering and assessment.
- Considerable knowledge of initial investigation, feasibility and cost benefit analysis for
- Strong financial business analysis experience.
- Previous Financial ERP system experience.
- Strong quantitative abilities.
- Demonstrating proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, such as Excel.
- Knowledge of standard accounting procedures.
- Advanced knowledge of quality assurance standards and best practices.
- Knowledge of automated regression testing tools, tests and suites.
- Expert ability to communicate, both verbal and written, effectively.
- Strong ability to develop and follow strategic and operational project plans.
- Significant ability to identify, manage, troubleshoot, and resolve problems.
- Strong ability to effectively manage time and priorities.
- Significant ability to coordinate people, projects; and methodologies.
- Strong ability to work and effectively communicate with departmental customers,
- vendors, quality assurance analyst, business users, technical developers, peers, and
- Advanced ability to enable the business area to apply technology to meet business
- Advanced ability to understand and elicit business and technology requirements.
- Advanced ability to recognize how and when to improve a process or system.
- Strong ability to mentor, guide and provide feedback to subordinate staff members.