Senior Business Analyst

Daily Responsibilities:

• Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing groups and stakeholder requirements responsibilities.
• Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates.
• Lead requirements prioritization and leverage techniques to drive out business priorities.
• Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review.
• Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements using enterprise standard requirements methodology.
• Verify requirements for quality and validate requirements with the impacted stakeholders.
• Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards.
• Apply advanced coverage analysis techniques to ensure relationships between scope, detailed requirements, and testing through to implementation.

Must-Have Skills:

• 5+ years of experience as a BA/BSA
• 2 years + experience on an Agile project
• Proven ability to gather Business requirements and system requirements independently.
• Experience in Online banking / Mobile banking.
• Strong knowledge of Requirements methodology (planning, elicitation, documentation) - both within Agile and Waterfall project frameworks
• Excellent attention to detail, analytical thinking, and gap analysis
• Demonstrated experience with user stories, business and system specifications, business context diagrams and business process maps.
• Experience working on large projects over $2 million.
• Excellent communication skills required; will be working with BU stakeholders and IT stakeholders; Experience facilitating a large roomful of stakeholders (15–20 or more).
• Excellent collaboration skills and highly adaptable
• Minimum 8-10 years of professional BA/BSA experience in a project-based Agile environment.
• Proven experience in Agile methodology
• Proven experience in Requirements analysis and quality documentation: Scope Modelling, Business Process Modelling, Data Requirements, Business Rules Analysis, Non-Functional Requirements, User Stories, Story Decomposition, and Story Mapping, Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition
• Deep Knowledge of requirements documentation and modelling tools (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA/Confluence, Mural, Figma)

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Previous FI experience with lending products
• Aside from BA, good experience with the BSA set of skills.
• Prior experience in enterprise-level and mobile projects
• Past testing experience in API using Postman
• Knowledge of current Accessibility standards

Soft Skills:

• Communication skills, written and verbal.
• Analytical skills
• Experience working with project teams.
• Presentation skills
• Facilitation and elicitation skills

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related discipline
• Master’s Certificate in Business Analysis.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Project Management Institute-Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA).