Business Analyst – Onsite Required

Our valued client, a local and well-established organization is seeking a Business Analyst to work on software development and technology-related projects onsite in Baton Rouge, LA. The client is a growing company and looking to expand its team!
Position Highlights :
Company Culture: you will be interacting with a fantastic team that values its employees and constantly works to provide a positive environment
Commitment to Professional Development: company has a strong emphasis on providing opportunities for employees to reach their career goals through on-the-job stretch assignments, training programs, and certifications
Excellent Compensation Package: this position provides excellent salary with performance incentives
Competitive Benefits: competitive benefits package that includes many options to fit your individual needs
The Business Analyst is responsible for business-facing communication, solutions development, project coordination, documentation, and quality assurance on an Agile software development team.
In this role, you will:
Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders.
Identify business needs; determine and carry out necessary processes and practices.
Monitor progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.
Adapts to competing demands, organizational changes and new responsibilities
Obtain a deep understanding of relevant business area(s) to be able to recommend solutions and build high-quality requirements.
Use a variety of techniques to understand business requirements, such as interviews, workshops, surveys, site visits, and storyboards.
Shape business requirements by making recommendations and suggesting alternatives to proposed solutions.
Understand technical options, limitations, costs, and risks. Communicate tradeoffs to business partners and work with them to shape requirements accordingly.
Translate conceptual user requirements into clear, detailed functional requirements.
Work with business and delivery teams to prioritize requirements.
Help resolve competing priorities between stakeholder groups by facilitating stakeholder discussions and escalate issues where appropriate.
Manage requirements scoping throughout the delivery process.
Create artifacts as appropriate, including business case documentation, scope documentation, and process flows.
Support delivery teams as they develop, test, and deploy solutions.
Review delivery team output to ensure requirements are correctly interpreted; define and execute test cases.
Document current processes and models to understand inefficiencies or gaps.
Identify and assist in prioritizing opportunities to streamline business processes.
What you will need:
3 + years of experience as a business analyst and accomplishments to deliver projects and other transformative initiatives
Experience determining the explicit and implicit needs and requirements of various stakeholders.
Ability to quickly learn the objectives, structures, operations and policies of a new business area.
Strong problem resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills.
Demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes.
Proven interpersonal skills and an ability to influence senior leaders and peers.
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
Experience creating documentation such as business case documentation or business requirements summaries.
Adaptability and a willingness to learn new skills.
4-year Degree or Equivalent Work Experience
US Citizen and Greencard Holders Only. Sponsorship not available with this position.