Senior Business Analyst
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Position Title: Senior Business Analyst (Req# 11088)

Job Description:

Provide a range of analytical skills to help drive business projects. Work with technical requirements and collaborate with a team of professionals to deliver quality advice to developers. Take responsibility for developing and delivering quality work and participate fully to ensure a successful outcome. Partner with key stakeholders to analyze business processes and system needs. Perform fit/gap analysis (system capabilities, business processes, business requirements) and research in-house, third-party, or custom solutions to make objective recommendations for process improvements and IT solutions. Develop presentation materials, including high-level models, to validate processes and solutions for stakeholders and internal audiences. Justify recommendations and results with estimated/actual costs and benefits. Draft system specifications detailing logic, configuration, and security requirements to be implemented, and perform supporting configuration steps. Identify and implement solutions to meet business objectives and support emerging priorities. Work with the Quality Assurance team to test functionality, ensuring new products, enhancements, bug fixes, and patches are correctly implemented without regression issues. Lead initial phases of data migration planning. Collaborate with business partners to implement and integrate systems and enhancements within the Cambridge Associates community. Identify change management requirements. Assist in developing training materials and documentation. Serve as a resource to senior management, product managers, project managers, and other business analysts on product and business expertise. Stay current on new and existing product functionalities and industry trends by attending industry meetings, networking, and reading industry publications. Position is based in Dallas with a fixed location; telecommuting from a home office may be permitted up to 4 days/week.

Job Requirements:

Requires a Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, or a related field plus three (3) years of related business analysis experience.

One (1) year of experience in the following areas (experience may be gained concurrently):

• Experience with computer systems, applications, development, and testing methodologies
• Project Life Cycle and System Development Life Cycle
• Leading project teams with medium to large business initiatives
• Writing and reviewing test cases
• Technical writing and presenting
• Interacting with mid- to senior-level managers to extract and analyze processes and workflows
• MS-SQL and relational databases

Will accept a Master's degree plus one (1) year of relevant business analysis experience in lieu of a Bachelor's degree plus three (3) years of experience.