For the given job description <<Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:
At Crowe, you have the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions to todays complex business issues. Crowes accounting, consulting, and technology personnel are widely recognized for their in-depth expertise and understanding of sophisticated process frameworks and enabling technologies, along with their commitment to delivering measurable results that help clients build business value. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a Best Place to Work. We are 75 years strong and still growing. Come grow with us!
Job Description:
Crowe is seeking a talented and driven Senior Business Analyst in our Product Engineering practice. This individual will assume a business analyst role on a Scrum team that is responsible for assisting in the development and maintenance of the Ignite data analytics product that is leveraged by the Audit practice to deliver Crowes Audit services. Primary responsibilities include leading requirements elicitation with key stakeholders, documentation, story creation, and refinement for the team. This individual should have a passion for continuous improvement, innovation, and a history of successful software delivery and leadership within an Agile Scrum team.
Responsibilities:
Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, from executive leadership to peers. Collaborate with Product Owner, stakeholders, and development teams to understand business goals and objectives. Ability to acquire a deep understanding of our products and systems, including their capabilities, features, and technical specifications. Perform analysis of large-scale epics for decomposition and work closely with Program Leadership and teams to ensure accurate scoping, feasibility assessment and effort estimation for epics and features. Conduct refinement sessions to decompose features into user stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria for the development team. Schedule, coordinate, and facilitate agile ceremonies and elicitation sessions with the Product Owner and stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and clarify requirements andor issues. Lead backlog management and refinement activities assisting in prioritizing and sequencing work items based upon business value and technical complexity. Collaborate within the Scrum team and Program Leadership on progress, providing updates and identifying potential risks or issues that surface during development. Develop and conduct product presentations andor demonstrations that effectively communicate the value, benefits, capabilities and features to various stakeholders and development team members. Partner with Development Lead to share Scrum Master responsibilities for the development team. Perform as a change agent on identified Agile process improvements for the development team. Perform change management activities in support of product releases. Collaborate with the QA Lead to ensure effective coordination and execution of User Acceptance Testing efforts. Collaborate across development teams to manage dependencies and ensure risks are proactively managed. Work with the development team to demonstrate work to the Product Manager and ensure it complies with the Definition of Done (DoD). Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including operations to promptly identify and prioritize issues reported in a production environment to ensure timely resolution and minimize impacts on users. 
Required Qualifications:
5+ years of BAExcellent analytical and critical thinking skillsStrong understanding of work requirement solicitation and decomposition techniquesExceptional learning agility and the ability to adapt quicklyAbility grasp business concepts and translate those to the development teamProficient level of understanding of Product Development and Software Development Life CyclesSolid experience with Agile Scrum methodologyExcellent communication skills, both verbal and written with the ability to effectively convey business and technical information to diverse audiences Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively with diverse stakeholders and team members as a part of a larger program fostering strong relationships and driving resultsProactive, self-starter, with a natural inclination toward taking individual initiative and personal accountabilityHigh degree of organization and the ability to manage multiple tasks effectively
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)Experience working with Azure DevOps or similar toolProduct Owner andor Scrum Master certificationExperience with SharePoint  Microsoft 365  Power BIExperience with Data Driven or Data Heavy ProductsIndustry experience in professional services, finance, or accounting
About the Team: 
Product Engineering professionals at Crowe lead the software development efforts for the firm and build technology solutions in a consistent and reliable way. Product Engineering owns the software development competency for the firm, which is tied to standardized processes, practices, policies and controls for client-facing products and projects. Team members share expertise across various industries, targeting manufacturing and distribution, government, healthcare, financial services, and private equity groups based on demand from other Business Units. You will learn and build on a wide range of technologies in an environment where innovation and new ideas are highly encouraged. Hop on board to join one of the fastest growing technology consulting practices in the industry.
Our Benefits:
At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!
How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!
More about Crowe:
Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.
Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Crowe LLP does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.>> the resume: <<SummaryDiligent and driven Analyst who has achieved success in a variety of roles with increasing levels of responsibility. An effective communicator and team-builder with strong analytical, management and organizational skills.
SkillsMicrosoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
Experience03/XXX7toPresentIT Data AnalystBank Of America Corporation|Bedford,NH,Used advanced Excel skills in order to streamline current reporting.Build queries to pull health insurance data for a multitude of audit and reporting purposes.Create business rules and performance metrics to increase speed and accuracy of the Claims Department workflow.Work collaboratively both departmentally and interdepartmentally in order to deliver automated solutions that support the business needs of the Claims Department.Have considerable expertise in Metadata Management, Data Analysis, Data Profiling & Quality, Data Governance and Master Data management (MDM).Experienced in utilizing statistical tools like MS office suite, MS projects, MS Visio and requirement management tools.Developed and maintained various reporting using in MS Excel queries, SQL in Teradata, and MS Access.Produce performance reports and implement changes for improved reporting.Performed in depth data analysis identifying data issues in legacy system and worked with business to develop resolutions to those issues.Prepared test Data sets and performed data testing using the SQL scripts.Also used MS excel for data mining, data cleansing, data mapping, and data dictionary and data analysis.Created Source to target data mapping documents.Manage various projects simultaneously by developing project plans, establishing deadlines, and monitoring milestone completions.Performed data analysis and data profiling using complex SQL on various sources systems including Oracle and SQL Server.Gathered analyzed, documented business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions and validate the needs of the business stakeholders.Created decks from various analysis to present to the business.Experienced in data analysis with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Data warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Mapping and Data Modeling.Environment: MS Office Suite, Hadoop, Teradata, Oracle, MDM (Master Data Management), Data Stewardship, Data Profiling, Clear Quest, Gap Analysis, MDMGUID, Oracle SQL Developer, Teradata SQL Assistant.02/XXX6to03/XXX7Business AnalystVista Equity Partners|Sioux Falls,SD,Working closely with the business users to understand the Business Requirements, Creating Fit-Gap Analysis documents.Executed all aspects related to employee health insurance, worker's compensation, life insurance, long/short term disability, employee discount/store benefits including company events coordination.Provided executives with analytics and decision-support tools used as the basis for reorganization, consolidation and relocation strategies.Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment.Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.Created functional specifications documents for new Benefit Programs, Eligibility Rules and Event Rules and Eligibility Configuration fields.Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.Engage client to gather business rules and requirements, and ensure alignment with development teams.Conducted requirements elicitation sessions with the stakeholders to understand and interpret the diverse issues and design solutions that meet stakeholder needs.Partnered with users on continuous improvement of reporting.Develop comparative statements, reports to examine the existing functionalities and present to the stakeholders.Also create Business Process Workflow Diagrams.Performed the requirement analysis, impact analysis and documented the requirements.Extensively worked in Conducting Gap analysis, System analysis, data analysis.Organized and Scheduled user interviews, user meetings, group meetings, and JAD sessions
Writing the specifications by gathering requirements from business owners, stakeholders, and vendors.
Education and TrainingExpected inDec XXX5totoB.S|Healthcare AdministrationFelician University,Rutherford,NJGPA:Healthcare Administration
Skillsstreamline, benefits, Business Intelligence, Business Process, continuous improvement, client, Data Analysis, data dictionary, Data Management, data mining, Data Modeling, Data warehousing, decision-support, functional, Hindi, insurance, meetings, MS Access, MS Excel, Excel, Microsoft Office, MS Office Suite, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Oracle, Developer, Oracle and SQL, Oracle SQL, project plans, Quality, Quest, reporting, requirement, Requirements Gathering, scripts, SQL, System analysis, Teradata, Visio, Workflow>>. The result is, Good Fit

Fit assessment: Good Fit