For the given job description <<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>> the resume: <<SummaryIf you need someone who delivers sharp results, I can help. Well qualified and results oriented Accounting Professional with over fourteen years of successful experience in positions of increasing responsibility in dynamic entertainment companies. Skilled at training staff in Accounts Payable and Receivable and Payroll functions and creating effective teams.
HighlightsWindows XP, Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word), QuickBooks Enterprise 17.0, Timberline, File Maker, POS.
ExperienceAccountant,01/2009-PresentTaylor Corp–Byron,MN,Responsible for all aspects of accounts payable, receivable and payroll.Banking liaison: reconciled statements, credit card and additional  reconciliations.Month end analysis, closing and production of month and year end financial reporting.Preparation of monthly commission reports.Control and monitoring of complex, high volume Production Petty Cash and daily Cash Report.Preparation of 1099-s.Accountant,01/2006-01/2009Taylor Corp–Dallas,TX,Supervised, trained and managed a staff of four permanent employees, plus interns.Oversaw the general accounting department areas: accounts payable, receivable and payroll.Banking liaison: reconciled statements, credit card, lockbox and additional  reconciliations.Month end analysis, closing and production of month and year end financial reporting.Preparation of monthly commission reports.Control and monitoring of complex, high volume Production Petty Cash process.Junior Accountant,01/2004-01/2006Anatomage–San Jose,CA,Responsible for all aspects of accounts payable and accounts receivable functions.Reorganizing and reconciling online based business transactions.Bank, credit card and other  reconciliations.Month end analysis and closing.Managed and trained college interns.Preparation of royalty reports.Preparation of 1099-s.
Education:Accounting,Expected in-Phoenix University/US-Florida-Miami-,GPA:Status-Accounting - PresentSheridan Technical Center/US-Florida-Miami
Certificate - Bookkeeping Fundamentals:,Expected in2003--,GPA:Status-CUC University /Colombia:,Expected in--,GPA:Status-Bachelor Arts Degree:Business Administration,Expected in1998--,GPA:Status-Business Administration
SkillsGeneral Accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, Microsoft office, Outlook, Windows XP, Word,  Excel, Quickbooks Enterprise 17.0,>>. The result is, No Fit

Fit assessment: No Fit