The Business Analyst (BA) will be responsible for analyzing the business needs of clients and stakeholders to help identify business problems and propose solutions. Within the systems development lifecycle domain, the BA will work as a liaison among stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. The BA will understand business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
Key Responsibilities
The BA will undertake or participate in the undertaking of the following activities -
- Guide stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieving project objectives
- Identify and resolve issues
- Manage risks and provide inputs to the risk management process
- Liaise with other project areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues.
- Liaise with various business units to determine requirements and resolve issues
- Identify business process improvement opportunities
- Identify and define business requirements
- Analyse and map business processes (current state/future state)
- Analyse processes and data to identify gaps or perform process or data mapping
- Prepare or provide input to business cases, feasibility assessments
- Produce high quality documentation
- Report status and issues to the Project Manager
- Contribute to enterprise architecture development from a business needs perspective