Senior Business Analyst - TAX/Financial Systems - Hybrid in New Jersey

Business Analyst

Need a Business Analyst to capture requirements, synthesizing them with scope and priority and assess the expected behavior and associated risks. Perform GAP analysis and define requirements for procuring a new system. They are looking specifically for a business analyst with experience in public or private sector tax, finance, audit, or accounting operations, with the ability to understand complex financial business processes, tax regulations, fiscal reporting requirements, and agency/organizational financial workflows preferred.

Description Of Position: Primary responsibility of the Business Analyst includes facilitating stakeholder meetings to gather functional requirements, identifying current and future business flows, the creation of as-is and to-be business models, and development of functional requirement documentation for a large-scale tax system modernization. Additionally, the Business Analyst will create a requirements traceability matrix which includes performing GAP analysis as needed to validate alignment between approved requirements, current business processes, and the vendor's proposed solution, ensuring seamless transition from procurement to implementation. The role extends through the testing lifecycle, developing comprehensive UAT strategies and test scripts/user stories, coordinating validation activities, and ensuring deployed functionality meets business expectations. The ideal candidate would have a background in finance, accounting or audit system modernization.

As a key member of a project team, the Business Analyst proactively identifies and communicates potential business process re-engineering needs. The Business Analyst will also be responsible for creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation, including user flow diagrams, process models, requirements traceability matrix, and ad-hoc business reports, and forms/correspondence specification documentation.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Conduct user research to assess customer pain point and identify opportunities and risks on improving customers Digital experience.
• Capture requirements from various stakeholders, synthesize them with scope and priority, expected behavior, and risks associated with the request
• Work with design team and involved in various brainstorming sessions and sessions to discuss the business scope, provide design feedback in terms of performance, customer experience and security measures before sharing with business stakeholders to finalize the design.
• Perform GAP Analysis and document the gap between the existing established business requirements and the as is business model to define requirements for the procurement of a new system
• Identify different issues/risks associated with the Epic/Feature/Stories, communicate with business team or Product owner and determine the risk mitigation plan with the team to tackle the challenge
• Ensure productivity of the team by creating and maintaining documentation
• Responsible for creating various user flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, and various ad-hoc reports as per business request.
• Assess various documentations of the project to provide feedback on the teams needs.
• Responsible for coordinating between State Agency Project Manager & Vendor to run the process flawless. Create business, logical and physical data model

Knowledge And Years Of Experience - 5 Years Experience For Each

• Knowledge of business analysis
• Knowledge of requirements traceability
• Knowledge of requirements elicitation
• Knowledge of developing test cases and scenarios
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and the implementation of Software as a Service (SaaS) solution
• Knowledge of As Is and To Be Modelling
• Experience in the standard concepts, practices, and deliverables related to Business Analysis in support of software development projects
• Experience: 5 years in business analysis and testing
• Experience with all the aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Experience with large scale system modernization preferred but not required

Required Skills - 5 Years Experience For Each

• Business analysis and testing
• Development and documentation of requirements (business needs) for new and existing systems to address legislative changes
• Development of Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure all requirements can be tested
• Development of Use Cases and an oversees User Acceptance Test (UAT)
• Development of test plans and data, the creation and development of test scenarios performs unit, load and performance testing in addition to integration testing
• Create business, logical and physical data models
• Create Process and Data Maps
• Create As Is and To Be Models
• Create Training Manuals
• Superior planning skills with the ability to handle large workload and facilitate the activities of dynamic work groups
• Strong technical problem-solving skills, with an ability to troubleshoot complex application issues
• Exceptional research skills and resourcefulness
• Proven ability to lead diverse groups of resources to solution agreement by leveraging influencing skills to drive consensus
• Effective communication skills; listening, written and verbal; ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experienced user of MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio, MS Teams and MS PowerPoint

Desired Skills - 2 Years Experience For Each

• Knowledge of COT/SaaS large scale implementations/modernizations
• Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in the implementation of Salesforce applications preferred
• Experience in public or private sector tax, finance, audit or accounting operations
• Ability to understand complex financial business processes, tax regulations, fiscal reporting requirements and agency/organizational financial workflows
• Experience working in public sector or government