Business Analyst 2

Business Analyst 2

Location: Vancouver, WA (Online)

Duration: 12-month Contract (with possible extensions up to 5 years)

Pay Range: $46.12 - $49.25 per hour

Perform analysis of business issues, provide recommendations for possible solutions, work with stakeholders to drive decision making and define requirements for program or project development, verifying that business needs are being met. Complete documentation for business requirements which guide program/project development efforts, working closely with development team and business teams to ensure successful implementation of business requirements. Assist with the development and maintenance of the business requirements process used to define requirements for projects. Assist with the definition and negotiation of project scope and create appropriate scope documentation. Communicates project status and escalates issues as needed.

Position Responsibilities:

• Gather and organize information on problems or procedures.
• Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.
• Confer with personnel concerned to verify successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.
• Develop and implement management approved records management program for filing, protection, and retrieval of records, and assure compliance with program.
• Review forms and reports and confer with management and users about format, distribution, and purpose, and to identify problems and improvements.
• Interview personnel and conduct on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work performed, and methods, equipment, and personnel used.
• Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.
• Design, evaluate and recommend changes of forms and reports.
• Plan study of work problems and procedures, such as organizational change, communications, information flow, integrated production methods, inventory control, or cost analysis.
• Develop detailed work plans to enable project success.
• Organize and facilitate large cross functional meetings.
• Promote consensus on a high-level view of the project and drill down into the details to obtain the requirements.
• Document project issues, risks, assumptions and requirements.
• Analyze and develop business scenarios and use cases.
• Follow policies and procedures to verify audit and compliance.
• Deliver project status and time tracking.
• Create process flows and diagrams necessary for the requirements gathering process.
• Work with management to facilitate resolution of conflicting priorities, requirements, and/or team positions.

Position Requirements

Education & Corresponding Experience

• Bachelor's or Associate's Degree in Business Administration, Management, Organization Development, Engineering, Computer Science or a closely related discipline is preferred.
• With an applicable Bachelor's Degree, 5 years of experience is required.
• With an applicable Associates Degree, 7 years of experience is required.
• Without an applicable degree, 9 years of experience is required
• Experience should be consistent with the specific requirements of business analysis and progressively more technical in nature.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite Software (MS Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Visio, MS Project and SharePoint)
• Demonstrated analytical, modeling, and process management expertise sufficient to support Transmission's technical training programs.
• Proficient in communication, facilitation with stakeholder groups
• Strong technical writing skills and experience in presenting information in various forms such as textual, graphical and statistical
• Skill in modeling business process requirements, verification of deliverables
• Demonstrated expertise with logical process modeling concepts sufficient to aid in the documentation of requirements
• Skilled in the definition and development of operational governance models to enable programmatic change
• Experience Coordinating project tasks and resources
• Facilitating meetings between a variety of departments and crafts.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• PMI -Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)
• Energy/utility industry experience
• Experience in training management, analyzing data and developing strategies

Everest Consultants offers the following benefits for this position: medical, dental, & vision insurance, short-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k)-retirement plan, and a referral bonus program, paid sick/vacation/holidays, and a health and welfare fringe benefit. Everest Consultants is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state, or federal civil rights laws.