Business Analyst - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Provides a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse business and technological needs.
  
• Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering documenting and analyzing business needs and requirements.
  
• Prepares and advises on business analysis policies processes best practices and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice within the organization.
  

Requirements

General Skills:

• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client s business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined Applies reengineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches
  
• Leads and conducts business analysis at varying levels of detail appropriate to the project and phases of project aligning with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies Develops strategies prepares business cases and costbenefit analysis and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives
  
• Develops sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions interviews mockups etc.
  
• Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and nonfunctional requirements definitions for assigned projects
  
• Monitors progress resolves problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders Develops performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation and conducts followup
  
• Experience developing strategies preparing business cases and costbenefit analysis
  
• Experience conducting requirements gathering developing documentation including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement
  
• Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope
  
• Awareness of emerging I&IT trends and technologies
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  
• Communication Consultation and Interpersonal Skills (25%):
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication consultation and interpersonal skills to lead and facilitate the consulting and discussion process for projects prepare business cases final reports and recommendations develop quality assurance testing plans and
  
• lead committees and work groups.
  
• Experience with relationship building and negotiation skills to liaise between clients and project teams throughout project development.
  
• Have prepared presented and received consensus on business cases final reports and recommendations.
  
• Have managed changes to requirements with clients/affected groups ensured compliance and secured cooperation for a course of action.
  
• Have handson experience leading and facilitating the consulting and discussion process with a variety of stakeholders for projects.
  
• Have demonstrated flexibility to work within a variety of situations applying a variety of project methodologies such as Waterfall Iterative and Agile and with various individuals or groups to achieve results understand and appreciate different and/or opposing perspectives on an issue and adapting your approach to achieve best outcomes.
  

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in the use of information retrieval packages Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices
  
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions
  
• Experience with a wide range of methods tools and techniques for business analysis such as: business functional modelling business event modelling business process mapping
  
• Experience in structured object oriented and agile methodologies for user requirements
  
• Experience developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and subsequent followup
  
• Provides a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse business and technological needs.
  
• Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering documenting and analyzing business needs and requirements.
  
• Prepares and advises on business analysis policies processes best practices and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice within the organization.
  
• Knowledge of life cycle methodologies for systems/software development for business applications and systems specifications design; software design development and integration; database concepts; user interface design principles; change management; quality assurance; risk management; test planning and execution; disaster/recovery planning; and business continuity planning to meet the business requirements and information needs of client ministries.