Senior Business Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

Title : Senior Business Analyst(mortgages, mortgage insurance / underwriting and audits)

Location : 641 Lexington Ave New York, NY -Onsite job

Duration : 12 months (37.5hrs per week)

Requirements

• Experience in finance / housing (e.g. mortgages, mortgage insurance / underwriting and audits.)
• Public sector experience is a plus;
• Experience with Microsoft Office, Project, Excel and Visio;
• Experience with SQL Server is a plus;
• Bachelor 's degree; MBA or relevant technical degree preferred;
• Minimum of 7 years of successful experience as a business analyst and proven history managing and delivering large-scale, complex, multi-year project;
• A strong background in technology, analysis and critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources; experience decomposing high-level information into details, distinguishing user requests from the underlying true needs, and developing solution ideas from requirements
• Proven experience successfully working in a team setting and ability to reconcile conflict ;
• Experience in related professional business / project analyst capacity;
• Proven experience writing business requirements documentation (BRDs) and functional requirements documentation (FRDs), including creating workflow / process flow diagrams (Candidate will be expected to produce examples of written materials from previous experience);
• Experience managing / working on projects through all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC);
• Extensive organizational skills to manage agency expectations and project artifacts;
• Excellent listening skills and the ability to elicit pertinent information from key staff;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Proven work experience in process re-engineering;
• Excellent technical skills;
• Knowledge of process related standards;
• Analytical thinker with interpersonal skills;

Scope : The Business Analyst to gather and create business requirements from our Mortgage Insurance Fund (MIF) project by documentingcurrent stateprocesses and system(s).

On the basis of the current state analysis, the Analyst will use lean methods to re-engineer processes through collaborative and data-driven efforts in order to finish developing new business requirements for future state system(s).

The new business requirements will drive the re-platforming ofmuch-improvedprocesses on new technology to better leverage the State 's limited housing resources.

The Analyst will report directly to the VP / Application Development Manager and will play a vital role in helping HCR revamp an outdated system.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate critical thinking skills when solving problems and making recommendations for new solutions.