Business analyst Jobs in Chicago, IL

The business analyst is responsible for gathering business requirements and content for other members of the development team throughout the product lifecycle.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITES

• Gathers, analyzes, and builds business requirements for the development team / squad.
• Understanding of the process flows within the domain, including exception management process.
• Is responsible for documenting requirements consistent with client's Agile standards.
• Is responsible for verifying and validating the requirements with the appropriate business and technology stakeholders.
• Is responsible for defining the requirements management plan (requirements traceability and requirements change control) for the project consistent with client standards.
• Is responsible for assessing requirement changes, determining the impact to those requirements and providing this information to the Lean Product Owners.
• Fields any questions from the project or delivery team and clarifies the requirements. May need to go back to the Lean Product Owner and / or Subject Matter Experts for information.
• Participates in test planning and testing activities in general.
• Participates in all team / squad level rituals such as daily stand up, scope sessions, iteration planning sessions and retrospectives.
• Assists with the defect management process.
• Familiar with the overall product, as well as the future state goals.

SKILLS

• Self-starter
• Strong business requirements elicitation
• Good IT architecture understanding
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Extremely detailed oriented
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Adaptability and continuous learning
• Previous working experience as a business analyst for 5+ years
• Exposure to lean agile processes and principles
• Customer-centric mindset
• Complex information processing and interpretation
• Internal stakeholder management
• Experience in process and data modelling
• Reasonable understanding of fund accounting