Senior Business Analyst

Job#: 2008806

Job Description:

Business Analyst

Hybrid (1-2 days in office) - El Segundo or San Diego preferred

Apex Systems is currently seeking a Sr. Business Analyst to join the team. Qualified candidates should apply online AND send their resume directly to us at

Responsibilities:

• Formulate and define system scope, objectives, and requirements through guideline disciplines and research.
• Lead and/or assist business and technical teams to advance and/or modify processes to provide resolution for a wide range of issues.
• Provide breakdown of business and user needs, elicitation, organization, and documentation of business requirements, process flows, and translation of business requirements into functional requirements.
• Support solution and functional requirement definition.
• Review impacted systems' technical and logical design to lead through creating or updating system/process/data flow diagrams.
• Utilize basic SQL skills to perform data queries that range from minimal to moderate complexity to reinforce analysis as needed in all phases of the project.
• Support design, build, and test phases for assigned projects and collaborate with project managers to develop detailed information.
• Develop a business analysis plan to provide meaningful project phase estimates for all business analyst activities, fully taking ownership and accountability for the requirements phase.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a directly related field required.
• 10+ years experience as a senior level analyst in Analysis, Business systems.
• 3+ years experience using Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint, Outlook, PowerPoint) and online collaboration tools.
• 3+ years experience with excellent meeting facilitation and communication skills.
• IIBA certification - Tactical thinking and thought leadership necessary for understanding goals and objectives as well as detailed activities within a project.
• Highly experienced in producing and identifying requirements in conversations.
• Proven experience in creating epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria within tools such as JIRA.
• Thorough understanding of guidelines related to release and change management, software development life cycle, workflow, and process modeling.
• Proficiency in leading through completion of high-quality business, functional, and non-functional requirement documentation.
• Proven talent to work within virtual teams, utilizing tools for efficient meeting facilitation and communications.
• Proven ability to drive towards effective and timely results of all tasks and assignments.