Business Analyst

Integrated Resources Inc.; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrated Resources Inc. is seeking a skilled Business Analyst for its Dealer Financial Service team. The role involves collaborating with business customers and IT teams to enhance applications through effective requirement gathering, analysis, and project management. Ideal candidates will have significant experience and be adept in SQL, analytical thinking, and interpersonal communication. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to impactful projects in a respected staffing firm.

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years of experience in business analyst or related functions.
• Experience with large data sets and SQL queries.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall).

Responsibilities

• Engages with stakeholders to gather and validate business requirements.
• Analyzes technical requirements and verifies alignment to business needs.
• Guides project activities from concept through implementation.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Communication skills

SQL

Interpersonal skills

Creative thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, or business

Tools

CaliberRM

Mercury Quality Center/Test Director

Job description

A Few Words About Us - Integrated Resources, Inc is a premier staffing firm recognized as one of the tri-states most well-respected professional specialty firms. IRI has built its reputation on excellent service and integrity since its inception in 1996. Our mission centers on delivering only the best quality talent, the first time and every time. We provide quality resources in four specialty areas: Information Technology (IT), Clinical Research, Rehabilitation Therapy and Nursing.

Job Description

Position Description:

• The Business Analyst role within Dealer Financial Service (DFS) Information Analytics and Reporting Services (IARS) is the central point of contact between business customers and Information Technology’s application development teams for enhancing applications.

• The Business Analyst designs and documents workflows, develops, tracks, and analyzes business requirements, and makes recommendations that positively impacts the solution.

• The Business Analyst is accountable for a full range of activities ensuring overall program effectiveness and excellence.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Engages directly with business customers, project stakeholders, and application development teams to understand project objectives, requirements, and approaches

• Works with key project stakeholders to understand and validate high level requirements, refine scope, develop and document detailed requirements for application development teams

• Translates technical issues, breaking down technical and architectural complexities for project stakeholders, explaining developer activities, uses analysis models such as reviews and walkthroughs

• Assists in validation of technical deliverables for completeness, accuracy, and quality

• Analyzes technical requirements, verifies implementation and alignment to business requirements

• Collaborates with development team to analyze ‘what if’ scenarios and impacts to upstream systems

• Aids in writing test plans, testing approaches, and user acceptance test (UAT) cases, liaisons between project team and testing team during UAT

• Develops and executes training plans for business customers and technology teams

• Identifies project issues and risks

• Focuses on usability, performance, security, portability, and service levels

• Guides project activity from concept through implementation

• Connects with all team members to provide support when needed ensuring quality and success of initiatives

• Strong oral and written communication skills ensuring effective communication and requirements documentation between business customers and technical teams

• Significant experience with interviewing, listening, facilitating, eliciting, and communicating with stakeholder groups in obtaining essential requirements information, including when there is hesitancy to discuss challenging topics

• Experience working with large data sets, able to write and execute SQL queries to extract, review, and present data to business units

• Interpersonal skills facilitating successful requirement workshops, brokering negotiation when necessary

• Creative thinking, pushing beyond boundaries of existing practices and mindsets

• Analytical mindset, differentiating ‘needs’ from ‘wants’, deriving necessary and implicit requirements

• Organized, successful managing a wide array of information, detail-oriented producing accurate deliverables

• Uses visual modeling for requirements and processes so common understanding is confirmed

• Experience with both packaged software and custom developed software

• Understanding of multiple software development methodologies (Agile, Iterative, Waterfall) and corresponding requirements and management practices that support them

• Self-motivated, independent team member

• Equivalency of bachelor’s degree in a related field (information systems, computer science, business)

• 5 to 7 years of experience in business analyst or other related business/information systems functions

• Experience and knowledge of data warehouse, information management, reporting analytics applications, and application/business domain knowledge desired

• Knowledge of CaliberRM and Mercury Quality Center/Test Director preferred

• Lean Six Sigma experience is an asset

Additional Information

Technical Recruiter

Integrated Resources Inc.

IT REHAB CLINICAL NURSING

Inc. 5000 – 2007-2014 (8th Year)

(Direct) 732-429-1919 | (W) 732-549-2030 x 239 | (F) 732-549-5549