Senior Business Analyst

Accenture; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Sr. Business Analyst – Senior Analyst to translate user requirements into business and digitally enabled solutions across industries.

You will analyze as-is and to-be processes, facilitate workshops with clients, and manage the requirements lifecycle while coordinating with stakeholders across geographies. Proficiency in backlog item creation, user stories, and acceptance criteria is essential, with familiarity with JIRA, MS Project, and related tools.

Qualifications

• Experience producing implementation-ready backlog items.
• Ability to engage with clients and internal teams to align expectations.

Responsibilities

• Analyze as-is and design to-be processes to define business, solution and system requirements.
• Organize and facilitate workshops with clients to elicit and understand their requirements.
• Interact with stakeholders to gain a deep understanding of their needs and translate that into the backlog.
• Manage the requirements lifecycle and backlog refinement.
• Create user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams across geographies and act as the interface with customers and project managers.

Skills

Requirement Analysis

Education

Graduation

Tools

JIRA

MS Project

Job description

Job Title - Sr. Business Analyst – Senior Analyst - ACS Song

Management Level 10-Sr. Analyst

Location: Kochi

Must have skills: Requirement Analysis

Good to have skills: Business Process Tools

Experience: 3-5 years of experience is required

Educational Qualification: Graduation (Accurate educational details should capture)

Job Summary

You’ll capture user requirements and translate them into business and digitally enabled solutions across a range of industries.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Analyzing as-is and design to-be processes to define business, solution and system requirements.
• Organizing and facilitating workshops with clients to elicit and understand their requirements.
• Interacting with various (client) stakeholders to, gain a deep understanding of their needs and represent that knowledge to the rest of the team, while using analysis techniques like story mapping, process modelling and data- and document analysis.
• Managing the requirements life cycle
• Facilitating effective communication between the team and acting as a point of contact for clarifications on product backlog items
• Iteration planning, backlog refinement, creating user stories and story acceptance criteria is also part of your scope.
• Stakeholder management and being an interface between your team, the customer and the project manager.
• Identifying various solution options to satisfy our client’s requirements and helping them and our teams make the right decision by carefully weighing business value and technical complexity.
• Creating and detailing user stories based on criteria set by client or your practice
• Collaborating with key external and internal project stakeholders who have a direct impact on their role and deliverables (e.g., decision‑makers, Subject Matter Experts)
• Ensuring that requirements and designs at an implementation level are aligned to one another, and managing the changes to related requirements
• Retaining requirement accuracy and consistency throughout and beyond the change during the entire requirements life cycle, and supporting the reuse of requirements in other solutions

Professional and Technical Skill

• Experience in producing implementation-ready product backlog items based on the elicited requirements
• Experience in understanding initial product backlog/ inception documentation to be able to form a complete picture of project scope
• Skilled in engaging with clients, vendors, and internal teams to align expectations and deliverables.
• Excellent verbal and written communication for reporting, presentations, and team coordination.
• Ability to mentor, motivate, and manage cross-functional teams across geographies.
• Proficiency in JIRA, MS Project, or similar platforms.
• Understanding of development, testing, deployment, and maintenance phases.
• Knowledge of automation pipelines, version control, and deployment strategies.
• Relevant application knowledge of any commerce platforms like SAP Hybris, commerce tools or similar could complete your profile.

Additional Information

About Our Company | Accenture

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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