Senior Business Analyst Jobs

Astek is looking for a senior business analyst with almost 8 years of experience in a similar position for a client in food and beverage industry.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Business Analyst plays a key role in identifying, analyzing and positioning opportunities to innovate business processes, develop new business capabilities and improve business performance. S/he acts as an extension of the business user, augmenting the business’ capacity to realize projects by capturing, contextualizing and communicating business requirements in a language and format that facilitates project team member understanding.

S/he supports the IT team by capturing and refining business requirements and by developing the business case to justify projects. Once a project is approved, s/he is involved in the full delivery cycle including, design, development, testing and operationalization.

S/he has excellent communication skills in addition to extensive knowledge of business analyst professional practices and strategic business acumen. S/he will work closely with clients, architects, the development team and managers.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

-With project delivery teams:

• Leads the business requirements gathering process
• Accompanies Business Users during their acceptance tests.
• Provides detailed answers to project team questions in relation to business requirements
• Organizes workshops, conducts interviews and researchers related subject matter and applies other information gathering techniques to clarify and qualify requirements
• Reviews project deliverables to ensure they are evolving in line with the requirements
• Ensures that project deliverables meet the business requirements
• Validates all test results
• Captures, documents and validates business requirements
• Identifies and documents test cases to ensure solutions will perform under production conditions

-Helps refine the business analysis methodology, processes and tools.

WORK EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of 8 years of experience participating in the delivery of technology-based solutions.
• Versed in Microsoft environment (SharePoint, Team Foundation, Project, etc.).
• Proven ability to identify and formalize business needs, convert them into instances of use, user case histories and/or test cases.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a business analyst.
• Experience in ERP and applications (Finance and procurment).
• Experience in the development of IT project costs, risks and ROI assessments.
• Bachelor’s degree in commerce, management, engineering, computer science or a related discipline. Master’s degree an asset.

DESIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Extensive background in a collaborative, team-run environment.
• Solid problem-solving skills.
• Strong analytical and information processing skills.
• Ability to influence, persuade and initiate change.
• Stress tolerance.
• Ability to set priorities and to perform tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Fluency in spoken and written French and English.
• Good judgment and discretion in dealing with sensitive situations.
• Excellent interpersonal and oral/written communication skills.