Assurant - Business System Analyst

The Business System Analyst

The Business System Analyst plays a critical role in ensuring the successful implementation of business solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

- Completing activities on moderate to complex projects, understanding and applying the system development methodology, and responsible for business analyst deliverables including understanding requirements, complete configurations, testing and mitigation plans, communicate status, business impacts, system and scope changes to team members, business partners, sponsors, management and stakeholders.

- Providing support to stakeholders and other IT areas for assigned business applications; analyzes and identifies and/or resolves complex system problems; works with business and technical staff to perform effective root-cause analysis and resolution.

- Participating in training support activities such as documentation authoring and preparation, training preparation and delivery or follow-up.

- Gathering, compiling, interpreting and summarizing systems and business process changes.

- Coordinating and participating on testing activities for project and configurations including unit testing, functional testing, integration testing and UAT.

- Identifying testing risks and contributing to the overall testing effort.

- Ensuring proper operational support transition to impacted business teams after implementation.

- Managing the customer and acting as IT liaison during project and problem resolution activities; maintaining and supporting a broad range of business processes and related systems; provides advice for business processes and solutions; collaborates with business stakeholders to define and document business requirements and with technical staff to develop solution alternatives.

Requirements:

- 4 years working with business users and stakeholders on business requirements, system configurations.

- 2 years working with systems analytics that include experience using SQL

- 2 years of Agile experience.

Preferred Skills:

- Ability to effectively manage multiple assignments and priorities at the same time.

- Be analytical, able to switch effortlessly between business and technical terminology, self-motivated, able to learn quickly, able to multitask, able to meet deadlines, and has a fanatical work ethic.

- Aptitude for continuous learning of new skills, industry trends, new technology, that add value to projects and assignments.

- Experience with agile development is preferred, agile certification a plus.

- Ability to coordinate system testing cycle, issues tracking and resolution.

- Strong communication skills.

- Ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical partners.

- Good understanding of customer needs and business strategy