Business Analyst - Technical - The Computer Merchant, Ltd
St. Petersburgh, FL 33716
About the Job
JOB TITLE: Business Analyst -
JOB LOCATION: St. Pete, FL - Onsite 8 days a month
WAGE RANGE*: $70-$80/hr w2
JOB NUMBER: 33339936
Long Term Contract
JOB DESCRIPTION
Note: This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in the office 8 days per month at the St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office location.
Job Summary:
This position will gather requirements around client, account transaction and position data, including both simple and complex calculation formulas for items such as balances, performance rate of returns or yields.
This individual will be responsible for writing business process and system requirements that will ensure the technology solution will meet the needs of the business. Requires a high-level understanding of systems, industry, and end-user requirements. This is a primary role that helps to collaborate between business and application developers on a complex system, handle data research and analysis request from business on issues and work with IT Partners to help drive and get them to successful conclusion. Requires very good understanding of systems and their interactions, financial services industry and end-user requirements. Can make judgements and recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of data.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of:
Skill in:
Ability to:
Education/Previous Experience:
Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled
* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.
JOB LOCATION: St. Pete, FL - Onsite 8 days a month
WAGE RANGE*: $70-$80/hr w2
JOB NUMBER: 33339936
Long Term Contract
JOB DESCRIPTION
Note: This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in the office 8 days per month at the St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office location.
Job Summary:
This position will gather requirements around client, account transaction and position data, including both simple and complex calculation formulas for items such as balances, performance rate of returns or yields.
This individual will be responsible for writing business process and system requirements that will ensure the technology solution will meet the needs of the business. Requires a high-level understanding of systems, industry, and end-user requirements. This is a primary role that helps to collaborate between business and application developers on a complex system, handle data research and analysis request from business on issues and work with IT Partners to help drive and get them to successful conclusion. Requires very good understanding of systems and their interactions, financial services industry and end-user requirements. Can make judgements and recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of data.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Creates detailed business requirements for functional (e.g., business processes, rules) and non-functional (e.g., data, security) capabilities.
- Validates test cases to ensure that scripts will evaluate the business function being performed.
- Gathers and interprets information from multiple sources (including databases, interviews, etc.) and makes recommendations.
- Supports the business by handling configuration and workflow management for financial and document management systems.
- Provides support for application development teams including documenting business processes.
- Translates technical concepts to business audience and business information to a technical audience.
- Test case validation to ensure that scripts will evaluate the business function being performed.
- May take a lead role in developing estimates and implementation plans for technical solutions.
- Partners with team members to develop project schedules, reports, and documentation. May be required to act as project lead on small to medium projects and/or provide direction to others on the team.
- Understands and applies principles in risk management, issue tracking and change management.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of:
- Advanced knowledge issue tracking, change management and requirements gathering.
- Solid understanding of SDLC and work through various phases of it with Peers and IT Partners.
- Knowledge in Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid software development methodologies.
Skill in:
- Good steward of gathering and maintaining application documentations in Wiki environment.
- Experience with gathering business requirements from ground up is required.
- Experience with basic SQL scripting, RDBMS queries, pulling data out of various systems, writing BRD's, etc... is preferred.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Tools to include but not limited to Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point and Visio.
- Experience with TFS and/or Azure DevOps would be preferred.
- Experience with Qlik or Qlik Sense would be nice to have.
- Experience in working with various stake holders of IT and Business Operations at senior level is required.
- Deep analysis skills to ensure all potential and future consumers requirements are accounted for in enterprise level database builds.
- Experience with supporting enterprise level, complex applications is preferred.
- Experience and background in working with financial accounting systems would be preferred.
- Experience in working with vendor-based application software implementation and support is a plus.
Ability to:
- Ability to query a database using SQL for gathering requirements and/or data mapping.
- Ability to assume ownership and responsibility, act as a key liaison between application development and business operations is required.\
- Ability to understand in-depth details of business processes, rules. Document and communicate them effectively to various technical and non-technical partners.
- Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions.
- Effective Communication: Clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
- Use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; recommend or take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.
- Demonstrate a strong knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise.
- Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
- Make internal and external clients and their needs a primary focus of actions; develop and sustain productive client relationships.
- Work in a team environment or project room to facilitate collaboration.
- Ability to provide system support including after hour incident handling when necessary (rotation within the support team).
Education/Previous Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS or related degree and three (3) to five (5) years of related experience or combination of education, training and experience.
- More than five (5) years of experience as a Technical Business Analyst would be preferred.
- Financial Services and/or enterprise level experience is highly preferred.
Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled
* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.
Source : The Computer Merchant, Ltd
