Lead Business Analyst

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Kforce has a client in New York, NY that is looking for a Lead Business Analyst for Merchandising and Planning. This BA will lead integration, upgrades, and integration for TMS and finance systems.

Duties / Day to Day Overview :

• Acting as a liaison between business stakeholders and IT leadership, translating high-level business strategy into actionable technical solutions
• Championing change management initiatives, ensuring user adoption and engagement with new systems or processes
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with cross-functional teams, including IT, merchandising, support, and other stakeholders.
• Ownership of functional area; responsible for managing and optimizing the product backlog for merchandising or planning systems
• Supporting existing production systems
• Defining and prioritizing system problems and enhancement requests; analyzing to identify and address root causes Leading efforts in the support of existing systems, processes, services and / or in the execution of new projects, ensuring that :
• Use cases and requirements are accurately captured
• Work with vendors to create wireframes and review with the business to ensure solution fits our needs
• Detailed functional designs are created and handed off to Development Team
• Test and training plans are designed and executed successfully
• Communication to project managers and leadership is accurate / detailed and projects are completed on time and under budget Taking a leadership role in exploring and analyzing new processes, services, and application functions and technologies to :
• Gather detailed business requirements by facilitating workshops, interviews, and stakeholder meetings and translating them into effective solutions
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring mutual understanding across departments

Required Skills :

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills :

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No

Rank : A3

Requested Date : 2025-11-12