Business Analyst II

Overview:

Quantam Solutions provides IT solutions and consulting for various clients. We offer competitive hourly wages, health benefits, paid time off, and a 401(k) plan. We are currently seeking a Business Analyst II . This position offers a hybrid work schedule with three days onsite in East Hartford, CT , and two days remote.

Project Description:

Our client operates a comprehensive suite of financial systems supporting Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Vendor Management, budget execution, and related fiscal operations. Our client is seeking a highly skilled Business Analyst with substantial Financial Services experience to support system enhancements, workflow optimization, documentation, integration initiatives, and structured testing.

The successful candidate will assist with ongoing efforts to improve the reliability, efficiency, compliance, and auditability of Accounts Payable and Purchasing functions.

Scope of Services:

• Working with Accounts Payable, Purchasing, and Fiscal Services subject matter experts to translate business needs into clear requirements and detailed technical specifications for development teams.
• Documenting current-state ("as-is") workflows for invoice intake, purchase order matching, approvals, exception handling, vendor maintenance, and payment processing.
• Designing future-state ("to-be") workflows that improve operational efficiency, compliance, and financial controls.
• Creating business and system design documentation and conducting walkthroughs with business users to validate requirements and proposed system enhancements.
• Analyzing, modeling, and documenting Accounts Payable and Purchasing-related data requirements, including vendor master data, chart of accounts, payment terms, fiscal codes, and 1099 reporting requirements.
• Coordinating with database administrators and development teams to integrate financial data requirements into existing systems.
• Conducting technical walkthroughs to ensure Accounts Payable and Purchasing requirements are incorporated into system designs, workflow routing, and testing scripts.
• Acting as a liaison between IT development teams and business users to resolve discrepancies, clarify business rules, address process questions, and provide guidance regarding fiscal controls.
• Conducting preliminary system testing and working with business testers to verify that Accounts Payable and Purchasing functionality has been designed correctly.
• Assisting business users during User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including defect identification, documentation, tracking, and resolution.
• Performing gap analyses between existing and future-state financial services workflows.
• Identifying critical paths, dependencies, and potential scope changes throughout all phases of implementation.
• Collaborating with the Project Manager to develop planning estimates, manage assigned responsibilities, and provide timely progress updates.
• Preparing status reports, schedules, defect-tracking updates, and management communications.
• Scheduling and facilitating meetings related to the planning, coordination, design, development, testing, and implementation of financial information systems.
• Creating training materials and conducting requirements elicitation and facilitation sessions with finance personnel at various organizational levels.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience designing, managing, testing, and resolving complex system or engineering issues within Financial Services environments.
• Strong experience with Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Vendor Management, or related financial systems and processes.
• Strong analysis, problem-solving, requirements gathering, and financial workflow design skills.
• Experience proposing, documenting, assessing, and validating technical solutions related to Accounts Payable and Purchasing systems.
• Experience managing detailed financial system requirements involving multiple business stakeholders.
• Ability to translate operational requirements involving invoices, requisitions, purchase orders, vendor data, payment rules, and fiscal codes into detailed system specifications.
• Ability to define Accounts Payable and Purchasing processes and identify critical paths, dependencies, and integration requirements.
• Experience tracking requirements and scope changes throughout the full system implementation lifecycle.
• Experience performing gap analysis between current-state and future-state financial workflows.
• Working knowledge of SQL and experience analyzing financial datasets.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps or similar tools for tracking tasks, requirements, and defects.
• Experience facilitating the investigation and resolution of Accounts Payable, Purchasing, or other financial system defects.
• Strong communication, documentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with legacy mainframe applications, particularly COBOL-based systems.
• Ability to understand and analyze COBOL application workflows and trace end-to-end business and system processes.
• Experience identifying how legacy systems interact with upstream and downstream applications.
• Ability to identify integration points, system dependencies, and data flows between modern and legacy financial applications.
• Experience bridging business requirements with legacy COBOL-based systems is highly desirable.

Additional Information:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule with three days onsite in East Hartford, CT, and two days remote.
• The work schedule is flexible between 35 and 40 hours per week.
• The selected candidate may begin once the required onboarding process has been completed.
• The position may be renewed periodically based on performance and the availability of funding.

Skills:

Business Intelligence,Business Requirements,Data Analysis,Business Reporting,Microsoft Excel,Microsoft Visio,SQL,Tableau,COBOL,User Acceptance Testing,UAT