Business Analyst / Consultant

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Deliver consulting project activities for various projects.

- Analyze complex data and identify patterns, recommend actions, and measure outcomes.

- Coordinate with technical staff to understand business requirements, specifications, and processes.

- Conduct market research and understand market trends.

- Create system functional specifications from business requirements.

- Interact with organization and client managers.

- Perform cost/schedule monitoring,
- Identify additional product and service opportunities in customer organization.

- Perform duties independently under the direction of the direct manager and/or Project Manager on specific projects.

- Support project planning, coordination, and execution activities across one or more Child Support system modernization engagements.

- Gather, document, and analyze business, operational, and functional information from stakeholders to support project objectives, deliverables, and recommendations.

- Assist in developing, reviewing, and maintaining project documentation such as work plans, status reports, governance materials, requirements artifacts, issue logs, risk logs, meeting notes, and other project deliverables.

- Attend interviews, focus groups, workshops, and other meetings necessary to gather information for project deliverables in accordance with the project scope of work.

- Attend project meetings with the client, subcontractors, project stakeholders, or other Maximus team members, as requested by the Senior Manager or Project Manager.

- Analyze project information, client materials, and working documentation to identify themes, dependencies, risks, issues, and opportunities for improvement.

- Research alternative solutions to problems, determine proper approaches, and make verbal and/or written recommendations to appropriate parties.

- Review project work products and artifacts for completeness, consistency, and alignment with project objectives, standards, and contract requirements.

- Participate in client meetings and offer observations, analysis, and insight to support decision-making and project progress.

- Identify risk areas, potential issues, and project dependencies that require proactive attention and support mitigation planning.

- Support the preparation of weekly, monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc reports in compliance with contract requirements and project needs.

- Support project testing efforts as assigned.

- Track action items, follow-ups, and decisions, and help ensure timely completion of assigned responsibilities and deliverables.

- Work collaboratively with project staff, client representatives, and cross-functional teams to support engagement goals.

- Provide technical and subject matter support related to child support business processes, system modernization activities, and project delivery practices.

- On projects with a quality assurance focus, support high-level quality review activities such as r...