Senior IT Business Analyst — Agile & PM Focus

Security Finance; Spartanburg (SC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in Spartanburg is seeking an IT Project Manager to enhance project execution success through business analysis techniques, serve as a liaison among teams, and create project requirements plans. The ideal candidate will have 4-5 years of Business Analysis experience, familiarity with JIRA, and strong communication skills. This office-based role requires regular attendance and the ability to operate office machinery. The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of experience in Business Analysis.
• Experience in JIRA preferred.
• Computer literate.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Recommends tools and techniques for business analysis.
• Serves as a liaison between teams and customers.
• Creates and documents requirements plans.
• Performs gap analysis and reports results.
• Analyzes and manages functional and user requirements.
• Supports project managers in creating project plans.

Skills

Business Analysis

Agile methodologies

JIRA

Communication skills

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Description

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

· Recommends, introduces, demonstrates, and supports tools and techniques for both Agile and traditional business analysis and to improve project execution success

· Serves as a liaison between development teams and the customer and/or end user

· Creates requirements plan; elicits requirements through workshops and interviews, evaluates requirements, documents requirements and project risks, and obtains stakeholder sign-off

· Performs gap analysis and reports on results

· Determines and documents business objectives and alignment of project requirements and objectives to those business objectives; gives input to changes in business architecture that may result in significant benefit to the business or process improvements

· Analyzes requirements; manages and documents functional requirements, non-functional requirements, user requirements and the Agile stories, epics, and technical requirements sufficient to describe objectives and tasks

· Reports on project progress and changes via the project status reports

· Works with Quality Assurance (QA) in the creation of test plans and cases, and reviewing test strategies, test plans, and test cases to ensure requirements are met; supports the QA and Testing Teams

· Supports the Project Manager or Project Lead to help create project plans, identify risks, reporting and governance, compliance with project charters, creation of system and architectures, analysis of service level needs, documentation of designs and solutions, test planning, requirements and defects tracking

· Prompt and regular attendance is required

Job Requirements:

· 4-5 years of experience in Business Analysis

· Experience in JIRA preferred

· Computer literate

Physical Requirements:

This is an office position that consistently operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer. Requires the ability to communicate verbally and in writing.

Educational Requirements:

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