Senior Business Analyst

Summary:
 
 

The Senior Business Analyst provides the critical link between

 the business and technology sides of the organization by effectively 

discerning and analyzing the true needs of business users, developing 

and modeling detailed steps that most effectively and efficiently solve

 business problems, and communicating these solutions to technology

 staff. The Business Analyst works with business resources within the 

company (end users, managers, and executives) as well as business

 interest external to the company (customers, suppliers, and partners). 

The Business Analyst works throughout the continuum of detail from 

the extremely general to the extremely specific and has a critical mind

 to identify opportunities when none may seemingly exist.

 

Responsibilities:

 •Participates in a collaborative team environment functioning within

 the SCRUM (agile) methodology

•Works with Product Owners to identify product stakeholders and user 

classes, document user characteristics, identify appropriate representatives

 for each user class, and negotiate their responsibilities.

•Elicits user needs using interviews, document analysis, requirements 

workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions,

 use cases, user stories, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive

 product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints.

•Writes requirements, specifications, and stories according to standard

 templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and 

concisely. Represents requirements and specifications using alternative 

views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios.

•Expresses recommendations based on client desires, product architecture, 

cost, quality, and delivery timelines 

•Mentors, interacts, and ensures cross-team and cross-department cooperation

•Clearly presents ideas and solutions to small or large audiences of customers 

and upper management

•Models requirements through UML, Use Cases, and User Stories

•Develops and maintains a knowledge of fitness club operations and management 

Skills Required:

 •Interviewing skills – Ability to talk with individuals, users, and groups 

about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirement 

information

•Analytical Skills - Ability to critically, judiciously, and quickly evaluate

 information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicting input, 

decompose high-level information into details, abstract low-level information 

to more general level, distinguish presented user requests from the true 

underlying needs, and distinguish solution ideas from actual requirements

•Facilitation skills – Ability to lead requirements elicitation meetings and workshops

•Modeling skills – Ability to represent requirements information in graphical 

forms that augment textual representations in natural language, including using 

a variety of modeling languages

 

Education Requirement:

 •Bachelor’s degree in business or related field from an accredited college 

or university

•Current Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) in good standing

•7+ years experience in Systems Analysis

•7+ years reviewing the systems of various types such as:  Accounting, 

Finance, Marketing, Sales, Inventory, Scheduling, POS, EFT, and Credit 

Card Processing. Experience with Website design

•Experience performing usability studies, ROI, NPV, and feasibility analysis

•Excellent writing skills, experience with teaching, facilitating, and 

leading seminars and training sessions

•Experience developing testing strategies and scenarios 

 

This position requires moderate travel of 6 to 8 weeks per year. 

 

Benefits 

 

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• 401(K)
• Short Term Disability
• Vacation
• Paid Time Off
• Holidays
• Health Club Membership