Position: Business Analyst
Company: Ascendix Technologies
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

**Project:**
The application designed to automate the processes related to providing real estate investors with hard money loans to fix-and-flip or fix-and-rent their investment properties. Application automates all departments workflow from qualifying a lead, processing, underwriting, and loan servicing, including calculations, business rules and security models. The system unifies all the separate functions under a single system and unified business process.


**Responsibilities:**
- Interact with product owner, team, client, and other stakeholders
- Plan, facilitate, and conduct requirements elicitation
- Perform customer business process and documentation analysis
- Document and validate requirements
- Create user stories and acceptance criteria for development and testing teams
- Support development team in clarifications of requirements
- Conduct meetings, presentations, and demos
- Participate in backlog grooming, defining, and approving upcoming release scope
- Prioritize features, work on roadmap
- Manage change requests
- Facilitate the definition of UX/UI approaches and prototyping
- Perform acceptance testing and validation
- Create various artifacts, such as SRSs, minimal schema and configuration requirements, presentations, user guides, introduction materials and release notes


**Requirements:**
- 2+ years in BA activities
- Practical experience in applying key of BA techniques (use cases, user stories, root cause analysis, prototyping, prioritization, mind mapping, functional decomposition, items tracking, stakeholder management, risk management, estimation, decision analysis, etc.)
- Practical experience with tools used for BA activities and teamwork (modeling and prototyping tools, tracking systems (TFS, Confluence), communication tools (Teams, Outlook), etc.)
- AT process support
- Theoretical knowledge and practical experience in Requirements Life Cycle Management
- Practical experience in change management procedures
- Upper-Intermediate English (both written and verbal)
- Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent soft skills (communication, presentation, negotiation, conflict resolution, etc.)
- Ability to handle multi-threading activities
- Client facing and client focused
- Proactive and able to manage own tasks


** Would be a plus:**
- Experience working with Salesforce/CRM
- Understanding of UI/UX principles
- Knowledge of Real Estate domain
- Experience in data analysis
- API knowledge