Senior Business Analyst

B&H Photo Video; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid maternity leave

Tuition assistance

Disability insurance

Job summary

A leading retail company in New York is seeking a Business Analyst with experience in gathering business and technical requirements for custom applications. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to identify needs and develop solutions. Candidates should have a strong background in retail and a skill set in analytical thinking and wireframing. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and benefits including medical and tuition assistance.

Qualifications

• Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of business and technical requirements analysis.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and analyze the business needs of stakeholders.
• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine the project scope.
• Research products to meet agreed-upon requirements.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Interpersonal communication

Wireframing skills

Attention to detail

Education

College diploma or university degree in business administration, finance, or information systems

Three to five years related work experience

Tools

Project management software

Windows office systems

Job description

Base pay range

$100,000.00/yr - $125,000.00/yr

Additional compensation types

• Annual Bonus

B&H Photo builds many custom applications for its internal teams to effectively execute upon their responsibilities. A business analyst is a unique creative role that helps translate the requirements for the business teams to effectively build technology solutions.

Job Responsibilities

• Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users.
• Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision. Works on prioritizing requirements and creating MVP solutions that can bring maximum value with minimal effort.
• Utilizes their creative abilities to put together wireframes and mockups to solve for business challenges using technology solutions.
• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Clearly identifies project stakeholders and conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Works with stakeholders and project team to create prioritized collected requirements.
• Researches, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Assists in conducting research on products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts.
• Participates in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
• Participates in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use.
• Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
• Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
• Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
• Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.

Qualifications / Skills

• Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Excellent process oriented mindset to build out new workflows
• Excellent documentation and wireframing skills.
• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements

• College diploma or university degree in the field of business administration, finance, or information systems
• Three to five years related work experience
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources
• Working knowledge of Windows office systems
• Excellent understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives

Must Have Skills/Experience

• Retail background and understanding of the supply chain process.
• Experience gathering business, functional and integration requirements for custom applications, vendor packaged applications (ERP, CRM etc.) including SaaS based applications.
• Experience writing requirements in User Stories format/exposure to iterative/agile methodologies.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Retail

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid maternity leave
• Tuition assistance
• Disability insurance