Financial Business Analyst

Company Overview:

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

Job Description:

Business Analyst

At NTT DATA, we know that with the right people on board, anything is possible. The quality, integrity, and commitment of our employees are key factors in our company’s growth, market presence and our ability to help our clients stay a step ahead of the competition. By hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally, we ensure a bright future for NTT DATA and for the people who work here.

We are currently seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join our team serving clients in REMOTE, Victoria, British Columbia (CA-BC) or REMOTE, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (CA). This role can be remote or hybrid and is expected to work in the PST time zone.

As a Business Analyst, you will work directly with stakeholders to elicit current state and future state business processes to drive identification of process improvements in IT Systems. You will use your technical skills and knowledge of IT Systems and processes to maximize efficiencies and functionality for your business stakeholders.

How You’ll Help Us:

As a Business Analyst, you will use your wide array of knowledge to provide support to our clients. If you are passionate about business analysis, technology and are solution driven, you will be a great fit for our team. In this hands-on role, you will work closely with a talented project team and our clients to design, build and evolve their business.

Why the Role Is Important:

In this role the Business Analyst is critical to the process that drives the end-to-end definition of business requirements related to a new or existing event or process. This may include redesigning existing processes that support continuous improvements in service, support, and performance measures. Finally, your guidance will help less experienced developers grow in their development skills resulting in an overall better team.

Once You Are Here, You Will:

• Plan for and Facilitate Workshops
• Prepare for and facilitate the discovery of business / functional requirements
• Conduct stakeholder interviews
• Conduct presentations
• Define, Analyze and Manage Business Needs, Requirements and User Stories
• Identify and document business objectives, goals, and success criteria to support the formation of new projects and develop roadmaps to achieve operational success.
• Manage requirements and backlog, support prioritization, identify and escalate scope creep
• Analyze business processes to identify bottlenecks, low-value activities, and opportunities for improvement.
• Perform gap analyses and identify impacts to people, process, and tools.
• Develop manageable and executable user stories with acceptance criteria
• Understand KPIs and how to measure to achieve them
• Perform Options Analyses to choose the best solution for the client
• Create and Review Business and Technical Documentation and Models
• Document business / functional requirements and specifications
• Review existing system documentation, business process models, rules and logic
• Develop business analysis plans and provide input into the overall project plan
• Document business processes and system workflows
• Determine user requirements for systems in production to ensure maximum usability
• Write use cases and draw use case diagrams
• Collaborate with Business and Technical Teams
• Work with clients to assess current systems and evaluate fit for the objectives.
• Provide support to implementation, release management, and migration tasks
• Partner with business stakeholders including team members, managers, and executives
• Partner with stakeholders to develop business cases for new IT initiatives
• Testing
• Create and execute functional test cases and test scripts
• Test new processes, systems, and operations.
• Support User Acceptance Testing phase
• Training
• Provide support and train users on the new tools, processes and systems.
• Write user guides
• Project and Team Management
• Provide regular status updates
• Create and implement precise management plans for every project, with attention to transparent communication at all levels
• Participate in all agile ceremonies
• Collaborate with other business analysts on the team

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience working as a Business Analyst
• Experience with implementing finance and accounting systems in medium to large organizations is a must
• Experience with a variety of software applications, technologies
• Strong communication skills with ability to translate technical jargon for the business user
• Passionate about making technology work for the business
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to write clearly, facilitate and present confidently to an audience
• Demonstrated leadership and attention to detail skills through prior experience at the strategic and tactical / implementation levels
• Ability to understand and apply common, object-oriented modeling techniques, including UML, use case, activity and sequence diagrams
• Experience with planning business analysis activities
• Experience navigating and working through challenging situations
• Flexible experience in delivering projects following either waterfall and agile methods.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in information technology or computer science
• Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications, including Visio and Project
• High proficiency in technical writing
• Business Analysis experience in one or more of the following:
• Modernizing applications, Software implementation
• Industry experience in Healthcare, Finance or Public Sector
• Project Management Experience
• Ideal Mindset:
• Lifelong Learner. You are always seeking to improve your skills.
• Team Player. You are someone who wants to see everyone on the team succeed and is willing to go the extra mile to help a teammate in need.
• Analytical. You consider all of the available information and patiently listen to stakeholders and can identify the best path forward.
• Organized. You keep wide amounts of information organized and prepared to be presented to relevant stakeholders.
• Bold. You are able to respectfully speak up when the need arises, especially when it is something people do not want to hear.

About NTT DATA:

NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future.

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