Business Analyst

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in management information systems or business is preferred.   
Eight years of experience planning, eliciting, analyzing, and managing business requirements and monitoring throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC)
Eight years of experience leading simple and complex business process reengineering and transformation efforts that deliver efficiency improvements in quality and customer experience
Eight years of experience performing a liaison role between functional and technical teams
Eight years of experience leading project teams and/or operational and strategic organizational efforts that involved managing changes and stakeholder relationships, tracking and communicating performance, ensuring resource availability and allocation, coordinating third parties/vendors and delegating tasks
Eight years’ experience with projects addressing some of the following fields:  data management, data quality, secure data transfers, data warehousing, data modeling, or data migration

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex issues and propose solutions.  
• Ability to analyze systems and procedures.
• Ability to write and revise standards and procedures.
• Ability to handle multiple projects.
• Ability to communicate effectively using excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate at all management levels and to communicate with both technical and non-technical personnel.  
• Ability to understand each division’s business processes and their dependencies.  
• Knowledge of business analysis procedures, business process modeling and design, requirements and process modeling tools, and meeting facilitation. 
• Ability to obtain and sustain the cooperation of others.
• Ability to provide excellent customer service. 
• Ability to present a professional image and demeanor to internal and external contacts. 

Preferred: 
•Experience in a wide range of business environments including business consulting experience is preferred.  
•Experience with PeopleSoft or other ERP applications
•Experience and/or knowledge of MS SharePoint technologies