Business Analyst (Remote in New York)

Description & Requirements

The Business Analyst will support project operations and analyze process, procedure, and requirements.

This person has the key responsibility to ensure that the business requirements and processes are adequately documented and communicated.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Identify and determine business requirements and define processes, including clarification on any requirement discrepancies.

- Understand business problems and opportunities in the context of requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

- Extract, tabulate, and analyze data to support program activity and assist management with decision making.

- Review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to new processes, functionalities, and/or proposed solutions.

- Process all Production Support Requests by receiving defect reports and cross-referencing the defect with the business requirements.

- Identifies innovative strategies to increase operational and system efficiencies.

- Works closely with business process owners, operations, users, and systems staff to define requirements, test criteria, and success factors.

- Documents and reviews all business process flows.

- Facilitates effective business meetings with internal project staff as well as client staff, as

appropriate.

- Works effectively with internal and external business partners to deliver solutions.

- Identifies, analyzes, and communicates all system and process defects.

- Provides production support for operations.

- Monitors process data to identify potential systems and process issues.

- Responsible for adhering to established safety standards.

- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for an extended period of time.

- Occasionally lifts, carries, or otherwise moves items weighing up to 25 pounds.

- Work is constantly performed in an office environment.

- Performs other duties as assigned by management.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in related field.

- 3-5 years of relevant professional experience required.

- Equivalent combination of education and experience considered in lieu of degree

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

- Similar work experience in business analysis, identifying and documenting business

requirements to support business processes.

- Demonstrated ability to work with business and systems teams to develop business requirements

for system design and development.

- Demonstrated ability to work successfully with business owners to understand business needs and

document business processes.

- Demonstrated ability to successfully prioritize and execute many complex tasks simultaneously.

- Demonstrated ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment.

- Demonstrated strong analytical/statistical skills.

- Demonstrated ability to solve problems quickly and accurately.

- Excellent organizational, in...