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Business Analyst

NEW YORK-10007, NY, US
01/04/2019

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Required Skills

MS Office Suite

Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

4 to 6 Year(s)

Job Description

This role reports into the SIS Replacement Project Manager in the Portfolio Management Office within CUIT.

CUIT seeks a Business Analyst with project manager experience and a proven track record of working on technology initiatives. Assignments will support Portfolio, Program and specific Project Management activities.

The ideal candidate should have functional knowledge in the below:

Student Systems to support the SIS Replacement project in the implementation of the new system.

Student Systems functional areas include Student Records, Registration, Enrollment,
Academic Advising, Degree audit, Billing, and Financial Aid.

Advanced analytical skills and applicable knowledge of business analysis and project management tools, techniques, and best practices.

Customer oriented, have a collaborative team-work approach, be intensely focused on delivery and possess clear and concise verbal and written communication skills.

The Business Analyst will have a key role ensuring that solutions and outcomes effectively meet the needs of CUIT and its clients.

As required, they may be called upon to work independently or closely with technology and business teams, managing multiple assignments across different initiatives.

Typical assignments may include, but are not limited to, gathering and managing requirements, discovery and analysis, and testing and validation.

Assignments necessitate engagement across CUIT operations and at different phases in the service or project management lifecycle.

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Successful applicants will have experience working with internal and external clients, collecting and organizing data, have the ability to define collection methodology, templates, and tools, and be skilled at defining and prioritizing work in an efficient manner. Key areas of responsibilities:

Requirements Management:

Elicit, record and analyze requirements to enable traceability to a desired customer outcome

Document dependencies and interrelationships among requirements, as well as any assumptions and congregations

Use advance techniques to capture existing, new, and unknown requirements (e.g., brainstorming, process work-flow diagrams, qualitative and quantitative analysis, reverse engineering)

Use tools that promote better understanding of the desired end-product such as visual aids, prototyping, and simulation

Stakeholder Management and Client Engagement

Directly engage functional owners and other stakeholders professionally, without supervision, and with appropriate messaging

Complete business case and impact analysis on implementing new changes

Document and clearly articulate the 'as is', 'to be' and transitional states for impacted users and delivery teams

Validate with stakeholders to confirm accuracy and completeness

Liaise between business units, technology teams and support teams to ensure the solution delivered meets all business needs and to avoid rework

Provide client engagement support to customers on behalf of CUIT
Solution Delivery:

Identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions

Contribute to the definition, design and delivery of solutions in accordance with specified scope, requirements, quality standards and target delivery dates

Perform comprehensive testing activities including developing test scripts, test plans and test scenarios and proactively managing defect resolution

Produce documentation to support delivery of process or system training

Manage activities and perform tasks to ensure that applications, systems, or processes being developed meet all operational requirements before getting introduced to 'Production or Live' environments and that service teams are comfortable supporting from day one

Complete full range of required project activities related to maintaining artifacts and documentation

Engage and support CUIT internal improvement initiatives as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's degree and/or its equivalent required

Minimum 4 years' related business analyst experience

Experience in the analysis of both business processes and the design of technology based solutions

ADDITIONAL POSITION-SPECIFIC MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Ability to understand, explain and present complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels in a persuasive and convincing manner

Ability to conceptualize and think creatively

Ability to adapt to changing priorities while managing multiple activities, and objectives

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge of industry best practice frameworks including, BABOK; PMI; SDLC; ITIL; Six Sigma; COBIT; ISO

Student Systems

Skills:

Highly competent in MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Project, and Google Apps

Desirable: TFS/Jira, experience with Project Management scheduling tools