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position: senior business analyst (production support)location: remote east coastjob type: direct hire job descriptionthe sr. business analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the needs of business stakeholders. this includes understanding, documenting, and evaluating business processes through interviewing stakeholders. the sr. business analyst elicits, gathers compiles and documents user requirements and translates them into functional requirements for technology solutions with an eye to improving processes and systems, enhancing their sustainability, and delivering maximum return on investment. the sr. business analyst must have a thorough understanding of the business, functional, and technical aspects of the applications used within the portfolio they support. core responsibilitiesevaluate business processes anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies.conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achievingthese benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate this back to the business stakeholders.prepare effort estimation.perform requirements analysis. document and communicate the results of the analysis.translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developersthe project team.analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to business owner(s), developers andor the project team.develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.select, adopt and adapt appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterativeagile) approaches.collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, conducting of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.collaborate with its teams and business partners to evaluate and prioritize work.triage and analyze incidents and problems. provide clear analysis results including business impact.assist test analyst(s) with testing duties as necessary.on-call andor after-hours work required.essential competenciesprofessionalismpersonal accountability, collaboration and teamwork, communication, flexible and adapts to change, service to customers and clients skill qualificationsrequired:proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology developmentexceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skillsability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutionsexcellent documentation skillsfundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skillsexperience creating detailed reports and giving presentationsexcellent planning, organizational, and time management skillsability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly languageexceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as requiredability to translate business requirements of packaged solutionsability to research and understand packaged solution upgrades both minor and major. translates the technical upgrade documentation into business terms the end-user can understand to make decision on. makes recommendation on these upgrades.experience in in agile, waterfall, and hybrid environmentsunderstanding of application development and software development life cycle conceptseffectively participates in teams and moves the team toward completion of goalssystemstechnical knowledge:basic technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and apisdata analysis skills including ability to perform ad hoc sql queriescompetency in microsoft applications including word, excel, powerpoint visio and outlook education and experience qualifications required:bs or ba with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration7-10 or more years related work experience as a business analystpreferred:certification of competency in business analysis (ccba) andor certified business analysis professions (cbap) preferred

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<<qualifications over two years' experience of data analysis at loyola chicago university; providing statistical analysis plan and generating report, tables, graphs; proficient in r and sas. proficient in microsoft office, word, excel and power point. ability to effectively organize and manage multiple assignments with hard deadlines. great team player and extensive experience and skills in collaboration and communication. professional experience 09/2016tocurrentdata analyst internenvestnet , merge spreadsheets from different sources to create a more compact and centralized data platform for easy updating and data analysis using ms excel advanced functions and formulas. data cleaning and data validation of existing spreadsheets to promote a robust data management platform for accurate data entry and data analysis. train employees on the use of pivot tables and tips and tricks in ms excel for efficient data entry and analysis. 07/2013to 04/2014research assistantsuny upstate medical university ,supervisor: drs. michael crum and david rayome paper: self-employment and subjective well-being: a multi-country analysis using the world values survey. international journal of entrepreneurship (published in 2014) statistical analysis of elements influencing self-employment and life happiness using r studio literature research on topics of self-employment and satisfaction 04/2012to 07/2012accounting internshipamica mutual insurance park ridge. provide data management for accounting journals using government-secured software prepare written report of asset inspection and sorted the documents 04/2011to 07/2011finance internshipsiemens corporation wichita. sales consultant for financial products and services education expected in2016totomaster of science applied statisticsloyola chicago university,chicago,ilgpa:expected in2013totobachelor of science finance and risk managementnorthern michigan university,marquette,migpa: skills computer software: ms word, powerpoint, excel, access statisticalsoftware: r studio, sas, minitab, sqllanguage: mandarin and english.