On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is looking for a Business Analyst to support the planning, analysis, design, implementation, and transition phases of the project. The Business Analyst will work closely with business stakeholders, project team members, technical resources, vendors, and project governance bodies to ensure business needs are accurately identified, documented, validated, and translated into effective technology solutions.

Responsibilities

- Experience with financial workflows and ERP/accounting integration
- Experience managing bodies of requirements for large custom software suites
- Experience with business process improvement techniques and tools
- Experience with gathering requirements for the design of Business Intelligence products and dashboards
- Experience interfacing with developers, translating business requirements into technical features and use cases
- Experience working on options analysis for large capital investments, especially in the public sector
- Experience in the design of identity, privacy, authentication or security service
- Plan and coordinate business analysis activities, including stakeholder identification, requirements management, and traceability.
- Engage stakeholders through interviews, workshops, consultations, and facilitated sessions to gather and validate business needs.
- Document and analyze business, functional, non-functional, reporting, security, and compliance requirements.
- Assess current-state business processes and identify gaps, inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Develop future-state business processes, workflows, user stories, use cases, and supporting documentation.
- Work with technical teams and vendors to ensure proposed solutions align with approved business requirements and project objectives.
- Support change request assessments, impact analysis,



solution design reviews, and decision-making activities.
- Assist with test planning, test scenario development, user acceptance testing, and validation of business requirements.
- Support implementation readiness, training materials, business procedures, deployment activities, and transition to operations.
- Contribute to project closeout by confirming requirements completion, documenting lessons learned, and supporting final business analysis deliverables.

Mandatory Requirements

- 7+ years of relevant experience in a business analyst role
- 5+ years working in an IT or software development environment
- 2+ years experience working within a government
- 2+ years experience with financial loan systems

Like to have
- 2+ years' Experience with Financial loan systems
- Experience working with the department of Education
- Certification in recognized business analysis framework, such as BABOCK
- Experience implementing Complex IT case management systems

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