Summary:

Leads the analysis, elaboration and documentation of user stories that address complex business requirements and are granular enough to be delivered by the team in a single sprint

Responsibilities

• Understands at an advanced level the business domain, including business processes and applications that support the assigned functional area(s)
• Captures and analyzes business process flows to determine how current process flows may be impacted by change, uncover dependencies, perform gap analysis, and recommend other areas of improvement to the team
• Leads discussions on business needs with business stakeholders and translates them effectively to functional requirements
• Provides insights to the Product Owner for prioritizing work and managing the backlog
• Assists the product owner in assessment of current capabilities and prioritization of work that will deliver the most value to the business
• Reviews or develops use cases and other documentation to clarify product requirements for the team
• Negotiates minimally viable solutions with the team
• Addresses gaps in understanding of product requirements, including feedback on in-progress work, to the team
• Acts as a key stakeholder in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives to support delivery of tasks
• Reviews product documentation including product requirements, tracking communications and updates to training materials
• Provides mentorship to junior BAs through Community of Practice and other informal forums

Mandatory Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or higher
• 5-8 years experience in business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, and verification, preferably using agile methodologies
• Strong understanding of Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban and other agile development techniques

Competencies:

• Demonstrated “agile-development” mindset with strong customer-focus & results-orientation
• Ability to excel in a fast paced environment and adapt quickly to shifting priorities
• Highly analytical, able to break down complex business problems to technical requirements
• Excellent communication skills to effectively manage key business stakeholder relationships
• Highly proficient in teamwork and collaboration skills

Preferred Experience:

• 5 years of Business Analyst experience working with Pricing, Revenue Management, Finance, or eCommerce applications 
• Excellent analytical capabilities, including experience collecting, analyzing and gathering insights from large data sets
• Excellent SQL and data visualization skills
• High proficiency with Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office Suite Applications
• Prior experience working with pricing applications such as Periscope, Pricefx, PROS, Vendavo, Zilliant, or others