Business Analyst

Loc: Portland, Oregon

Essential Functions:

• Writes comprehensive functional specifications from requirements documents and input from other domain and technical design sources.
  
• Insures accuracy, completeness, clarity and simplification of functional specifications.
  
• Presents functional specifications to internal stakeholders for review/acceptance and compliance with requirements.
  
• Revises functional specifications as necessary throughout the development lifecycle.
  
• Provides development expertise in bridging domain requirements to developer/QA-ready functional specifications.
  
• Creates visual models, charts, flow diagrams and other specification components that facilitate simplification and abstraction.
  
• Creates initial business object (entity) diagrams that can be used to initiate database design.
  
• Creates user interface mockups and associated behavioral rules to define navigation, validation, data relationships and trigger events.
  
• Acts as a project lead in support of small to medium initiatives by determining resource requirements; defining project activities and tasks; defining project deliverables, preparing estimates, schedules and status reports.
  
• Adheres to project methodology standards in the preparation of appropriate project related documentation and deliverables.
  
• Supports and provides coordination in change control and release management.

Requirements:

• BS/BA in computer science, informatics or equivalent combination of education and experience
  
• 3+ years experience developing functional specifications for commercial software products
  
• Strong analytical skills.
  
• Strong communication, presentation and writing skills.
  
• Strong abstraction, organization and simplification skills.
  
• Experience defining Use Cases
  
• Knowledge of UML concepts
  
• 3+ years with Oracle Apps, SAP, MS Dynamics AX or other Enterprise ERP
  
• 3+ year with BI Tools like Cognos, Microstrategy, or Business Objects, SSAS, Power BI
  
• 1+ year of working with Power BI, Data Analytics, Big Data
  
• 3+ Microsoft Office, strong Excel analytical skills
  
• SQL or PL/SQL
  
• Basic knowledge of IT Infrastructure and networking
  
• Must possess business knowledge, superior negotiation skills, facilitation, presentation, interpersonal and written communication skills.