Business Analyst II

Business Analyst

The Judicial Branch operates a comprehensive suite of financial systems to facilitate Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Vendor Management, budget execution, and associated fiscal operations throughout all courts and state agencies. The Information Technology Division (ITD) of the Judicial Branch is seeking a Business Analyst with substantial experience in Financial Services to assist in system enhancements, workflow optimization, documentation, integration initiatives, and structured testing. This engagement will contribute to ITD's continued efforts to enhance the reliability, efficiency, compliance, and auditability of Accounts Payable and Purchasing functions within the Connecticut Judicial Branch.

Scope of Services The scope of services required for the Business Analyst includes:

• Responsible for working with Accounts Payable, Purchasing, and Fiscal Services subject matter experts to translate business needs into understandable requirements and converting these into detailed technical specifications for ITD developers.
• Responsible for documenting "as-is" workflows for invoice intake, PO matching, approvals, exception handling, vendor maintenance, and payment processing, and designing "to-be" workflows that support improved efficiency and compliance.
• Responsible for creating design documentation and conducting walkthroughs with business users to obtain validation of requirements and proposed system enhancements.
• Responsible for analysis, modeling, and documenting Accounts Payable and Purchasing related data requirements (including vendor master data, chart of accounts, payment terms, 1099 reporting needs) and coordinating with DBA and development staff to integrate these requirements into the Judicial Branch's financial systems.
• Responsible for walkthroughs with technical staff to ensure AP requirements are incorporated into system design, workflow routing, and testing scripts.
• Act as liaison between IT development staff and business users to resolve discrepancies, address Accounts Payable and Purchasing process questions, clarify rules, and provide guidance on fiscal controls.
• Responsible for conducting preliminary testing and working with business testers to ensure AP functionality is designed correctly and assisting testers during user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Collaborate with the Project Manager to develop planning estimates for all responsibilities outlined and manage assigned tasks through timely progress reporting.
• Provide required status reports, schedules, defect-tracking updates, and management communications

Minimum Qualifications In addition to the standard skills and experience for the job class, the ideal candidate should be prepared to discuss the following: Technical Competencies:

• Strong analysis, problem-solving, and financial workflow design skills.
• Experience proposing, documenting, and assessing AP-related technical solutions and validating complex system specifications.
• Experience managing highly detailed Accounts Payable and Purchasing requirements involving multiple business partners. Ability to translate Accounts Payable & Purchasing operational needs (invoices, requisitions, POs, vendor data, payment rules, fiscal codes) into system specifications.
• Ability to define key Accounts Payable and Purchasing processes and identify the critical paths and dependencies of the operations.
• Ability to identify scope changes and track Accounts Payable and Purchasing requirements through all implementation phases.
• Conversant with data analysis using SQL and financial datasets.
• Familiar with agile methodologies.
• Familiar with tracking tasks and defects using Azure DevOps or similar systems.
• Ability to facilitate resolution of Accounts Payable or Purchasing system defects.
• Ability to provide gap analyses relative to existing vs. future-state financial services workflows.
• Experience scheduling and facilitating meetings for planning, coordinating, and tracking the design, development, programming, and implementation of financial information systems.
• Experience in creating training materials and conducting elicitation and facilitation sessions with finance staff at all organizational levels.

Additional Preferred Qualification:

• In addition to financial systems background, experience working with legacy mainframe applications, particularly COBOL-based systems, is highly desirable.
• The Business Analyst should be capable of understanding and analyzing COBOL application workflows, tracing endto-end business and system processes, and interpreting how legacy components interact with upstream and downstream applications.
• The ability to bridge business requirements with legacy COBOL-based systems and identify integration points, dependencies, and data flows will be considered a significant advantage.

General Experience:

• At least five years of experience in designing, managing, unit testing, and tackling challenging engineering issues within financial services

Timetable The selected candidate may be able to join the ITD team as soon as the onboarding process is completed. A duty station will be assigned at ITD in East Hartford, with opportunities for hybrid remote work (3 days on-site and 2 days remote) and a flexible work schedule between 35 and 40 hours per week. The position may be renewed periodically based on a consultant's performance and the availability of funding.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.