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

**Requirements**
- Strong English verbal and written communication skills
- Clear understanding of principles and specifics of software development methodologies
- Knowledge of business analysis activities and techniques
- Knowledge of requirements management tools (at least JIRA & Confluence)
- Knowledge of prototyping tools
- IT industry experience: 1 year or more, including collaboration with clients abroad
- Experience in business analysis or product management: 1 year or more, including defining solutions from idea to production
- Experience in Agile methodologies: 1 year or more


**Responsibilities**
- Help defining business needs and goals. Outline stakeholders’ impact and their outlook on the project and teams
- Collaborate proactively with business stakeholders, project managers, and teams to reach a common understanding of the solution to address the needs. Manage requirements communication considering the project’s specifics and stakeholders’ preferences. Moderate meetings and workshops
- Manage solution scope, detect and track changes. Manage requirements related conflicts and issues up to resolution
- Prioritize requirements and manage their allocation. Define quality attributes (nonfunctional requirements) including external interfaces and constraints
- Evaluate business analysis processes and continuously improve them. Follow requirements lifecycle processes
- Monitor solution implementation and conduct internal and external solution acceptance. Manage solution acceptance criteria
- Care about continuous improvement of customer satisfaction


**Desirable**
- Master degree or higher (in Computer Science or similar)
- Business education
- Good knowledge in at least one Business Domain: finance, accounting, media, travel, logistics
- Knowledge in product management best practices
- One of the following (desirable): IIBA CCBA, OMG UML, OMG BPMN, PMI-PBA

**Personal skills**
- Systems thinking and functional decomposition skills
- Strong analytical skills to make a critical assessment of the information from numerous sources
- Modeling skills to represent requirements information in graphical form
- Setting clear goals and priorities. Time-management, ability to handle multi-tasking activities and prioritization
- High flexibility. Ability to modify approach as per changing stakeholders, conditions, circumstances and feedback. Quick learning
- Good communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
- Self-confidence. Ability to accept criticism for continuous improvement


**What's in it for you**
- Ability to work on challenging projects, deal with complex solutions
- Nicely designed, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere that creates good working conditions
- Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with the client