Senior Business Analyst
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.
- Evaluate current business processes and identify areas for improvement, automation, and optimization.
- Develop detailed business cases, workflow charts, and process maps.
- Lead and facilitate workshops, interviews, and meetings to gather requirements and align stakeholders.
- Translate business requirements into clear, actionable technical specifications for development teams.
- Collaborate with project managers, developers, QA testers, and other stakeholders to ensure successful solution delivery.
- Manage scope, changes, and project timelines to ensure business objectives are met within budget and schedule.
- Deliver regular reports and presentations to leadership, communicating project status, risks, and recommendations.
- Mentor junior analysts and contribute to the development of BA best practices and frameworks.
- Ensure solutions comply with regulatory requirements and company standards.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in business analysis roles, preferably in [industry/sector, e.g., finance, healthcare, IT, etc.].
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated experience in process improvement, requirements gathering, and change management.
- Proficiency with business analysis tools (e.g., Visio, Jira, Confluence, MS Office Suite).
- Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects, and work independently or within a team.
- Experience working in agile, waterfall, or hybrid project environments.
- Strong attention to detail and a drive for delivering high-quality work.