Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 33 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies. We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team.

At Allied Consultants, we value our consultants and are committed to providing an exceptional experience including :

• Highly competitive pay rates
• Local support staff for responsive, personal service
• Comprehensive benefits package, including :
• Medical insurance (with employer cost sharing)
• Life insurance
• A 401(K) plan with company match
• Flexible spending through a cafeteria plan

Candidates selected for interviews will be subject to a criminal background check and may be required to pass a drug screening, in compliance with federal and state regulations. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of these checks.

Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Responsibilities

Location of job : Hybrid-3 days in office. Candidate must be local to Austin, TX

Performs senior-level business / systems analysis work. Coordinates gathering, development, and documentation of user requirements; and the review, assessment, and improvement of business processes. Uses best practices in business analysis and process modeling. Must be able to apply analytical skills to various business and technical processes. Works under the direction of the Business Analyst Team Manager.

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Qualifications

Minimum (Required) :

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in management information systems or business administration.

Experience planning, eliciting, analyzing, and managing business requirements and monitoring throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) including regression testing. Validate requirements with Front office / Middle Office / Regulatory stakeholders.

Experience leading simple and complex business process reengineering and transformation efforts that deliver efficiency improvements in quality and customer experience.

Experience performing a business relationship manager (liaison) role between functional and technical teams.

Experience leading project teams and / or operational and strategic organizational efforts that involved managing changes and stakeholder relationships, tracking and communicating performance, ensuring resource availability and allocation, coordinating third parties / vendors and delegating tasks.

Experience with projects addressing some of the following fields :

Experience working in a scrum master role or in an agile scrum environment.

Considerable knowledge of accounting, finance and / or investment concepts and terminology.

Experience with accounting, finance and / or investment system implementations and enhancements.

Experience analyzing and evaluating complex accounting, finance and / or investment technology applications, policies, and issues and enabling creative and workable solutions to complex problems and issues.

Experience with accounting, finance and / or investment software vendors and internal development teams in continuously improve technology requirements.

Develop and conduct curriculum and training sessions covering new and enhanced systems.

Preferred (Optional) :

Experience in a wide range of business environments including business consulting.

Experience with a variety of system implementations and enhancements supporting business areas related to : building operations, finance, benefits processing, procurement, contracts, legal, audit, human resources, vendor relations, project management, communications.

Experience with MS Azure DevOps for requirements management, and project implementation.

Experience with project management software.

Technical expertise and experience in business systems analysis, system configuration, information security, and internal control frameworks.

Technical expertise and experience with reporting databases, database design development, data modeling, mapping.

Technical expertise and experience conducting enterprise business analysis such as problem / opportunity analysis, business case and business architecture development, feasibility studies and comprehensive risk assessments supporting value-based decision-making.

Technical expertise and experience creating comprehensive system-level documentation, system implementation standards, and training materials for users with varied levels of technical understanding.

Master of Business of Administration (MBA), CCBA, CBAP, CSM, CSPO, PMI-PBA, PMP, ITIL, ICGB, or related.