Business Systems Analyst III

McNeil & Co.; Manila; On-site; PHP 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

McNeil & Co. is seeking a Business Systems Analyst III in Manila to collaborate with business system owners, translate requests into specifications, and help drive the roadmap and backlog prioritization.

You will work with engineers and QA to ensure delivery aligns with the roadmap and business goals. The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, Agile experience, and a solid background in requirements gathering and process analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related field and 5–7 years of experience.
• Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Experience translating business needs into system specifications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business system owners to capture requests and translate into specifications.
• Help populate the roadmap and drive backlog prioritization.
• Coordinate with software engineers and QA analysts to ensure proper implementation.
• Provide guidance on feasible functionality and delivery sequencing.
• Analyze current and future business processes and map requirements.
• Establish documentation standards and templates for business analysis artifacts.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Roadmap prioritization

Stakeholder management

Business analysis

Agile methodologies

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

SQL

UML

Job description

## Business Systems Analyst IIIApply: PHL-Manila: Full time: Posted Yesterday: R26\\_1063With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable PossibilitySM.The Business Systems Analyst III is responsible for collaborating with the business system owners, and users to capture the right business requests and accurately translating them to specifications that aid design, coding and testing of complex software and/or data warehouse applications within the organization. The incumbent performs a liaison function between the business users, software engineers and QA analysts for implementing software solutions to accurately realize business goals. The incumbent will help populate the roadmap, drive prioritization of the backlog, and ensure stories are detailed enough for development to be planned for.· Work with the business stakeholders to drive the roadmap and prioritize initiatives.· Work with the business stakeholders to accurately capture all stakeholder requests and translate them into system specifications which typically include functional, non-functional, user interface, reports and external interface specifications.· Work with software engineers to ensure that the engineering realization is in accordance with the functionality desired in the roadmap.· Work with the testers to ensure that all software components are tested adequately and participates in Quality Assurance testing as the IT workload requires.· Provides guidance to stakeholders on what functionality is possible and in what sequence of delivery.· Manages requirements risks by proactively tracking and communicating issues, and devising methods to mitigating them.· Liaise with other project and program areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues.· Analyzes, maps, and communicates current state and future state business processes.· Supports stakeholders in the resolution of in-depth user questions and issues.· Maintains a working knowledge of new technology and business analysis standards & practices.· Collaborates with IT management to define and develop documentation & business analysis artifact standards, guidelines, processes, and templates.* Ability to think strategically and tactically to translate long term goals into releasable components.* Self-starter able to accomplish tasks with minimal oversight.* In depth knowledge of business analysis processes, techniques, and work products* Advanced knowledge and understanding of underwriting improvement and digital enablement (portals and APIs).* Understanding experience with user experience design for web applications.* Experience in Agile software development processes* Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate and convey information to stakeholders and software engineers and testers.* Requirements gathering from the business users as well as developing system specifications for projects, enhancements and bug/issues.* Strong customer service skills to provide stakeholder systems support on high level issues.* Excellent understanding of how technology impacts the business.* Excellent team player with a proven background of individual contribution.* Excellent interpersonal, documentation, communication, and presentation skills.* Insurance and Reinsurance Knowledge is a plusRequired knowledge and skills would typically be acquired through a Bachelors degree in computer science, business or related field plus 5 to 7 years related experience.