Business Analyst at Mike Albert Leasing – Cincinnati, Ohio

Business Analyst

This position uses knowledge of business processes and systems as well as interviews and analytical techniques to define business requirements and functional specifications. Manages scope changes and issue resolution. Coordinates implementation activities. Contributes to department process quality improvements initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work in a Scrum team, focusing on analyzing business processes while maintaining a close relationship with business owners
• Elicits requirements using interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, job aids, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.
• Reviews project initiation documents for completeness, feasibility, interdependencies; seeks further clarification
• Maintain required project artifacts such as approvals, user stories, requirements, job aids, process maps, reference guides, as part regular project output
• Actively participate in all phases of the project lifecycle, to ensure all requirements are properly documented, understood, and executed
• Serves as point of contact for functional area.
• Assists scrum master, project manager or release manager with implementation activities.
• Provide leadership to team members and peers by collaborating with others.
• Creates and maintains stories for use by development teams using agile development methodologies
• Lead or participate in multiple projects
• Proactively recommends process improvements, system changes or scope modification to drive business process improvement or increased profitability.
• Conduct system overviews or training classes as necessary.
• Mentors Business Analysts to develop a strong team environment and skills.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 2 years of IT Business Analyst experience
• Experience with IT fundamentals such as database, process analysis and data flow analysis
• Knowledge of data structures and data access methods including use of SQL
• Strong analytical skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements by identifying, defining, and prioritizing requests based on business impact, technical difficulty, and risk.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Information systems or comparable experience
• Hybrid - will work in office three days per week (Tues, Wed, Thurs)
• Must reside in the greater Cincinnati Metropolitan Area
• Proven ability to be flexible and motivated, and to work well both independently, and in a team environment
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills
• Communicate effectively with a diverse group of individuals with varying levels of technical understanding and skill
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Experience with financial services or transportation / leasing industry preferred.
• Project Management experience.

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