Business Analyst Hybrid NYC

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Qualifications:

• Previous experience working with an enterprise wide, large-scale environment.
• Experience Implementing Tax updates in a government or civil service environment.
• Excellent understanding of systems development lifecycle methodologies.
• Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills
  
  

required.

• Strong MS Office 2010 and later; including Visio, Excel, Project, and Access required.
  
  

Education:

Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or in a

Technical/Business Discipline is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience and knowledge of PMS and PPMS (payroll processes), NYCAPS
  
  

(personnel),

CityTime (timekeeping) and CHRMS canned reports and Ad Hoc facility.

• Extensive knowledge of Fair Labor and Standards Act (FLSA) Overtime processing
  
  

rules.

• Extensive knowledge of contractual overtime processing rules.
• Experience with application configuration design and set-up.
• Knowledge and experience in IBM Mainframe environments, QMF, SQL, MS SQL
  
  

Server.

• Understanding of relational databases (e.g. DB2).
• Proficiency running back-end/database queries for data analysis (DB2 on Mainframe).
• Clearly document and explain problems and to work with others to resolve software
  
  

defects whileClearly document and explain problems and to work with others to resolve

software defects while

ensuring technical compatibility and end user satisfaction.

• Ability to demonstrate the ability to plan, manage time according to schedules, and
  
  

status reporting.

The primary functions of the business analyst will be:

• Analyze and document business requirements.
• Author functional specifications, review functional specifications with business owners
  
  

for approval, and review functional specifications with technical staff during transition to

technical design and coding phases of the project.

• Author technical specifications for interface and conversion software and review
  
  

technical specifications with staff during the transition to technical design and coding

phases of the project.

• Construct additional reports as requested to supplement the predefined reporting
  
  

capabilities of the Payroll module. As needed, work with FISA-OPA report development

staff to package and deploy supplemental reports into a catalog available to authorized

users.

• Investigate and resolve software issues and defects reported by business users and
  
  

others.

• Work with technical analysts to research problems to find and implement solutions.
• Supplement the activities of the FISA-OPA Integrated System Test team as necessary.
  
  

The analyst will be expected to author test cases, execute test cases, and document the

results.

• Supplement the activities of the end users by coordinating end user acceptance test
  
  

activities or performing user acceptance testing on their behalf, or both.

• Run simulations of the business event processing to ensure that software
  
  

modifications have not introduced errors into the processes.