Business Analyst -Contract

Overview
Work with product teams, the marketing organization, corporate services and the IS group to develop solution requirements in support of business objectives. The successful candidate will apply their analytical and business skills to evaluate existing solutions, products and processes as well as new market opportunities in support of the company’s strategic plan.
Responsibilities
• Independently or as part of a team, perform internal research, customer research, and develop business case scenarios, models and requirements.
• Aggressively pursue, gain, and maintain knowledge of products and services provided by the company and various entities throughout the travel industry, as well as key stakeholder issues. Apply this knowledge in support of innovative business solutions and enhancements.
• Work closely with, and establish long term working relationships between various groups including: internal business units, external partners, vendors and the technology team.
• Requirement specification development that includes:
    High-level business and user requirements, business processes, and training material in conjunction with cross-functional teams and customers;
    Decomposition of high-level business and user requirements into functional and nonfunctional requirements, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by developers and others who base their work on the requirements;
    Representation of requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate;
    Documentation of the operational business processes.
• Manage multiple assignments, along with ongoing (core) duties, simultaneously.

Skills/Knowledge Required
• Ideal candidate has a BA/BS degree and between 3 to 5 plus years experience in or showing knowledge of the following:
• Working with product teams and other organizational units to decompose highlevel business and stakeholder requirements into functional and non-functional requirements.
• Defining explicit business requirements in support of strategic and/or tactical projects.
• Establish and manage working relationships with and between several IS groups including software development, project management and quality assurance.
• Collaborate with internal customers and project team members throughout the project lifecycle. This includes initial planning and analysis, design, development, test and implementation stages to ensure that the business requirements are fully communicated, documented and satisfied.
• Lead requirement development process ensuring that requirements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, and verifiable.
• Serve as the primary liaison between the product organizations and the compay’s IS community for requirement gathering and documentation for specific business and/or project initiatives.
• Ability to make qualitative and quantitative assessments of data. From those assessments, develop requirement content based on strategic and tactical objectives.
• Must demonstrate the interpersonal skills required to successfully work in a team environment and communicate effectively across a variety of stakeholder groups.
• Must be able to identify opportunities and transform them into quantifiable and achievable initiatives.
• Must be a dynamic and self-starting individual able to work independently or as part of a team with minimal guidance and direction.
• Must be able to continuously learn new skills to keep abreast of industry trends and state of the art technology.
• Must be able to solve user related problems with creative and simple solutions.
• Must be able to effectively prioritize work in order to meet deadlines and breakdown work into smaller tasks for the team.
• Must demonstrate excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Must be able to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical users at all levels of an organization.
• Must possess proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and Visio).
• Must be able to solve user related problems with creative and simple solutions.

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