Business Analyst

Role: - Business Analyst

Location: Trenton, NJ- Hybrid

Duration: 6 Months

Interview: Phone/Skype/F2F

Visa: Any

Note: This is a hybrid role. Contractor will be required to work ONSITE varying days per week from Day 1.

Description:

The Client is replacing the Trust Fund Accounting System.  The current system was developed in LOTUS and is no longer supportable. In order to be able to replace this system a business analyst is needed to understand our current system, document Business and Functional Requirements, develop Use Cases, Process Maps, As Is and To Be models and a Requirements Traceability Matrix. 

The Business Analyst will need to research solution in the public and private arena, compare the requirements to the features in these systems and present to Senior Management a recommendation for a replacement system.  In order to accomplish this, the Business Analyst should have an understanding of basic accounting principles, standards and financial records, and the ability to understand and document general ledger activities.  Regular status reporting to Senior management on the status of this project will be required. 

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct research to identify COTS/SaaS solutions that meet the business, functional and technical requirements.
• Capture requirements from various stakeholders, synthesize them with scope and priority, expected behavior, and risks associated with the request.
• Work with design team and involved in various brainstorming session and sketch session to discuss the business scope, provide design feedback in terms of performance, customer experience and security measures before sharing with business stakeholders to finalize the design.
• Perform GAP Analysis and document the gap between the existing system and new system.
• Identify different issues/risk associated with the Epic/Feature/Stories, communicate with business team or Product owner and determine the risk mitigation plan with the team to tackle the challenge
• Ensure productivity of the team by creating and maintaining documentation
• Responsible for creating various user flow diagram, data flow diagram, and various ad-hoc reports as per business request.
• Assess various documentation of the project to provide feedback on the team needs.
• Create test cases, coordinate bug meeting and work with QA team to ensure all the scenarios are tested and pass the acceptance criteria before the launch.
• Responsible to coordinate between State Agency Project Manager & Vendor to run the process flawless. Create business, logical and physical data model.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Experience with Accounting
• Knowledge of business analysis and user acceptance testing
• Strong technical problem-solving skills
• Exceptional research skills and resourcefulness
• Effective communication skills, listening, written and verbal; ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

DESIRED

• Proven ability to lead diverse groups of resources to solution agreement by leveraging influencing skills to drive consensus.
• Experience using MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio, MS Teams and MS PowerPoint
• Experience on large-scale modernization efforts
• Analytical and customer service skills

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• Knowledge of Accounting and Accounting systems
• Knowledge of Trust Fund Accounting Guide and Best Practices
• Knowledge of business analysis
• Knowledge of requirements traceability
• Knowledge of requirements elicitation
• Knowledge of developing test cases and scenarios
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and the implementation of Software as a Service (SaaS) solution
• Knowledge of As Is and To Be Modelling
• Experience in the standard concepts, practices, and deliverables related to Business Analysis in support of software development projects.
• Experience: 5 years in business analysis and testing
• Experience with all the aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Experience with large scale system modernization preferred but not required.
• Collaborate with business partners (State Agency & Vendor) at various levels to research and validate functional requirements, technical requirements and use cases.
• Create detailed functional designs, process flows and use cases.
• Review, comment, follow-up and target reported defects and enhancement requests.
• Participate in user meetings to gain understanding of customer processes, ideas and issues.
• Work closely with vendors/developers to ensure the product is being built to specifications.
• Collaborate with team members throughout the Software Development Life Cycle process for requirements gathering, feedback on proposed designs and models, and user acceptance testing.
• Use best practice risk management, anticipate and assess risks and create mitigation plans.
• Ensure quality, accuracy and completeness of customer.
• Ability to translate high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements specifying an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those must base their work on the requirements.
• Participate in requirements prioritization and facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders.
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent certification
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Skill Required / Desired Amount of Experience

Experience with Accounting- Required 5 Years

Knowledge of business analysis and user acceptance testing- Required 5 Years

Strong technical problem-solving skills, with an ability to troubleshoot complex application issues-Required 5 Years

Exceptional research skills and resourcefulness- Required 2 Years

Effective communication skills; listening, written and verbal; ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders- Required 5 Years

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent certification- Required 4 Years

Proven ability to lead diverse groups of resources to solution agreement by leveraging influencing skills to drive consensus- Desired 5 Years

Experience user of MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio, MS Teams and MS PowerPoint-Desired 5 Years

Experience on large-scale modernization efforts- Desired 2 Years