Business Analyst - no H1/C2C

About the Role

Our client, a leader in Waste Management, is seeking a contract Business Analyst. This is a fully remote role, but candidates must be located in the Pacific, Mountain, or Central Time Zone.

Must be eligible to work for any US employer without visa sponsorship.

The Business Analyst analyzes the needs of the Company's most complex functional business areas within Client, providing recommendations on system solutions or procedures. As the liaison between the business and IT department, the Business Analyst ensures that the scope of work requested to enhance or modify existing application processes is clearly documented, communicated, and validated. The Business Analyst works closely with IT experts to design, develop, document, test, and validate solutions that meet business requirements and may be asked to lead projects and mentor other Business Analysts.

Contract Duration: 7 months (with potential for extensions)

Principal Responsibilities

• Acts as a liaison with stakeholders to analyze the needs of various functional business areas while enhancing software and reinforcing business standards.
• Creates detailed documentation of functional, system (non-functional), user, and reporting requirements that may include, but is not limited to: Use Cases, Logical Models, Process Flow Diagrams, Report Specifications, and Data Mapping & Flow Diagrams.
• Performs research and analysis for proposed projects to determine feasibility and durability.
• Performs profiling and analysis of data from source systems.
• Ensures that solution requirements are clearly documented, communicated, and validated.
• Provides support to functional and user acceptance testing groups throughout the development lifecycle.
• Assists with the creation of value proposition (ROI) for proposed projects.
• Helps the team to define and control scope for development initiatives and release schedules.
• Works jointly with other IT Managers to create detailed work plans for software development and enhancement projects.
• Responsible for status reporting, knowledge transfer, and implementation plans as appropriate for the software solution being developed.
• Builds and maintains relationships with software application vendors and implementation partners.
• Instructs, directs, guides, and checks the work of other Business Analysts.
• Performs other duties as assigned or apparent.

Qualifications

• Experience using Structured Query Language (SQL) for data analysis.
• Business Analysis or Project Management Professional certification.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer engineering, information systems, finance, statistics, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of direct work experience in a business analyst capacity working with business systems related to systems support, analysis, or development.
• Minimum of 1 year of project management/coordination, tracking, and organizing business analysis documentation for projects.