| Title: Business Analyst
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| Location: Sherwood, AR
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| Job Type: Direct Hire
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| Compensation: per Year
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| Reference Code: 946819-WQG
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Description: The Business Analyst provides the critical link between the business and technology sides of the organization by effectively discerning and analyzing the true needs of business users; developing and modeling detailed steps that most effectively and efficiently solve business problems; and communicating these solutions to technology staff.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in a collaborative team environment functioning within the SCRUM (agile) methodology
- Work with Product Owners to identify product stakeholders and user classes
- Document user characteristics; identify appropriate representatives for each user class and negotiate their responsibilities
- Elicit user needs using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, user stories, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints
- Write requirements, specifications, and stories according to standard templates using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely
- Represent requirements and specifications using alternative views such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios
- Express recommendations based on client desires, product architecture, cost, quality, and delivery timelines
- Mentor, interact, and ensure cross-team and cross-department cooperation
- Clearly present ideas and solutions to small or large audiences of customers and upper management
- Model requirements through UML, Use Cases, and User Stories
- Develop and maintain a knowledge of fitness club operations and management
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Requirements: Business Analyst Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business or related field from an accredited college or university
- Current Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) in good standing
- 7+ years of experience in Systems Analysis
- 7+ years of experience reviewing the systems of various types such as: Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Inventory, Scheduling, POS, EFT and credit Card Processing
- Experience with Website design
- Experience performing usability studies, ROI, NPV, and feasibility analysis
- Excellent writing skills
- Experience with teaching, facilitating, and leading seminars and training sessions
- Experience developing testing strategies and scenarios
- Interviewing skills to include the ability to talk with individuals, users, and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirement information
- Analytical skills to include the ability to critically, judiciously, and quickly evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicting input, decompose high-level information into details, abstract low-level information to a more general level, distinguish presented user requests from the true underlying needs, and distinguish solution ideas from actual requirements
- Facilitation skills includes the ability to lead requirements elicitation meetings and workshops
- Modeling skills includes the ability to represent requirements information in graphical forms that augment textual representations in natural language including using a variety of modeling languages
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