Business Systems Analyst 2 (NY HELPS)

Description

Duties Description

The position is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering complex business and technology initiatives that support NYSIF's strategic priorities. The position will lead cross-functional teams, facilitate stakeholder engagement, manage project risks and dependencies, and ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with organizational objectives.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of agency projects and strategic initiatives.
• Develop and maintain project charters, work plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, and resource plans.
• Facilitate project intake, prioritization, and governance processes to support agency objectives and portfolio management.
• Coordinate activities across business units, information technology staff, vendors, consultants, and external stakeholders.
• Establish project goals, success metrics, timelines, and deliverables in partnership with business and executive leadership.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies and develop mitigation strategies as needed.
• Monitor project progress and ensure adherence to agreed-upon scope, schedules, and quality standards.
• Lead project team meetings, stakeholder workshops, status reviews, and executive briefings.
• Develop and deliver project status reports, dashboards, presentations, and other communications for senior leadership and governance committees.
• Oversee change management and stakeholder engagement activities to support successful project implementation and adoption.
• Collaborate with Business Systems Analysts and subject matter experts to ensure business requirements are accurately documented and incorporated into project plans.
• Support procurement activities, vendor evaluations, contract management, and implementation oversight when applicable.
• Promote project management best practices, standards, methodologies, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Analyze project and portfolio performance data to identify trends, resource constraints, and opportunities for improved delivery.
• Provide day-to-day supervision and guidance to Business Systems Analysts, ensuring effective requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, and project support activities.
  
  

For Appointment Via NY HELPS

Minimum Qualifications

• NYSIF employee with one year of permanent competitive service as a Business Systems Analyst 1; OR
• Seven years of business analysis experience* including: using business analysis techniques to elicit requirements as the foundation for the solution to the organizations business needs; using business analysis techniques for the purpose of identifying solutions aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the system, business process, or; describing in a comprehensive written document what the system, process, or product service must do in order to satisfy the established business requirement; this includes creating, updating, and maintaining documentation through the system development life cycle; validating requirements throughout the product or system development life cycle (SDLC) including all changes to the processes that would enable an organization to achieve its goals; or verifying requirements throughout the product/SDLC to ensure they perform to the required specifications and are capable of achieving the design capabilities; this includes developing test plans and logical designs, testing the scenarios, reviewing test results, identifying constraints and risks, or communicating with stakeholders.
• An associate degree may substitute for two years of specialized experience; bachelor's degree may substitute for four years of specialized experience; master's degree may substitute for five years of specialized experience; J.D. may substitute for six years of specialized experience; Ph.D. may substitute for seven years of specialized experience.
  
  

For Competitive Appointment

• List appointment: Reachable on current Civil Service eligible list for this title.
• Transfer: Current New York State employee with one year of permanent competitive class service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 52.6 of Civil Service Law. Appointments via transfer must not result in a second, consecutive transfer with an advancement of more than two S-grades or one M-grade.
• Reinstatement: Candidates who have previously held the Business Systems Analyst 2 title, or a transferable title, may be eligible for consideration for reinstatement.
  
  

Please be advised that the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) does not offer sponsorship for employment visas to employees or potential employees. Candidates sponsored for employment by an organization should be aware of their sponsorship status and the relevant expiration date(s) of that sponsorship before applying to this position. NYSIF is not currently enrolled in eVerify, which is a requirement for certain types of employment verifications.

Additional Comments

For candidates new to NYS, the starting salary for this position will be the bottom of the range displayed and is not subject to negotiation. For candidates that are current NYS employees, salaries are calculated in accordance with NYS Civil Service Law, OSC Payroll rules and regulations, and negotiated union contracts.

Fringe Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Future career growth potential
• Open and supportive team-based environment
• Plentiful vacation, personal, and sick time off
• Paid state and federal holidays
• Affordable health insurance plans
• Dental and vision benefits provided at no additional cost
• Retirement options
• Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
• Possibility of telecommuting, flextime, and Alternative Work Schedules (AWS)
  
  

NY HELPS Program

This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS).

For the duration of the NY HELPS Program, this title may be filled via a non-competitive appointment, which means no examination is required but all candidates must meet the minimum qualifications of the title for which they apply.

At a future date, it is expected employees hired under NY HELPS will have their non-competitive employment status converted to competitive status, without having to compete in an examination. Employees will then be afforded with all the same rights and privileges of competitive class employees of New York State. While serving permanently in a NY HELPS title, employees may take part in any promotion examination for which they are qualified.

About NYSIF

For more information about NYSIF, including our mission, commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and efforts to fulfill Executive Order 31, please visit www.nysif.com.

If you are a person with a disability and wish to request that a reasonable accommodation be provided for you to participate in a job interview, please send an email to NYSIF’s Reasonable Accommodations mailbox at ra@nysif.com.