Business Analyst

Job Description Summary
As a business systems analyst on the Web Development Team you will work on a fast paced, innovative, and collaborative team supporting initiatives across the financial services product lifecycle, from quote to claims. This newly formed team will develop digital capabilities for advisors and customers.
The Web Development Team will consist of a full complement of roles necessary for effective digital product delivery – technical lead, business analysts, developers, and software development engineers & testers.
High Level Responsibilities:
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Provide consultation and business analysis on multiple efforts of varying duration, size, and complexity.
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Elicit, translate, and simplify requirements, decompose high-level business and user requirements into well-written user stories.
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Analyze and validate business systems data.
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Document technical requirements and business/technical process flows.
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Document and organize acceptance criteria for user stories.
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Coordinate end-to-end testing along with UAT and observe the initiation of the system to validate performance.
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Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and the technology teams.
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Work with technical leads and product managers to plan, develop technical scopes of work, and manage the execution of projects/product changes in response to requirements from our stakeholders.
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Participate in all phases of the development life cycle, including requirements gathering and analysis, design, build, test, implementation, and continuous service.
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Work with product and project managers to define improvements to business processes, assist decision-makers in gathering information to make decisions, and help quality assurance test solutions.
Basic Qualifications:
Professional Experience:
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Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Business or Engineering.
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5+ years of business analyst experience.
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Excellent interpersonal communication, coordination, requirement gathering, and planning skills with cross-functional teams.
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Special combination of technical skill and business acumen, along with a high degree of confidence.
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Logical reasoning and deduction skills (ability to connect the dots).
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Skilled in applying judgment to balance process compliance with the achievement of business objectives.
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Strong organizational skills and detail-oriented.
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Outcome-oriented with the ability to drill down from the big picture to process details.
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Ability to communicate objectives, plans, status, and results clearly.
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Ability to understand and translate business needs into technical requirements.
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Ability to collaborate across diverse teams and organizations.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
• Experience within financial services industry
• Experience with Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)