Our client, a leading law firm, is hiring a Business Analyst on a contract basis.
Work Location:
New York, NY (Hybrid Option)
Summary:
The primary responsibility of this function is:
- To elicit, analyze, document, and validate business requirements to meet business needs.
- To help clearly define purpose and scope of projects and to manage stakeholder expectations.
- To identify and/or develop optimal solutions for the business needs.
- To ensure project awareness within the Firm to achieve better synergies.
- To ensure the delivery of project’s output to customer, quality control and transition to operational mode.
Responsibilities:
- Gather business requirements, including local office requirements (g., policies, and statutory requirements) and translate the high-level requirements into detailed specifications.
- Define business cases and evaluate business, financial and technical feasibility of each option.
- Perform market analysis for potential solutions and interact with potential vendors.
- Identify and propose possible solutions that meet business requirements.
- Analyze existing or new documentation.
- Provide project teams with a clear understanding of business needs, requirements, and specifications.
- Work with the QA team in assisting them in building testcases to ensure they are accurate.
- Prepare UAT scripts and assist with UAT process.
- Conduct regular status meetings and deliver status reports to management and stakeholders.
- Liaise with steering committees and stakeholders as well as participants in the project in order to ensure control of scope, risks, changes (if applicable) and communication.
- Provide support and guidance to staff on the best usage of existing and/or new software.
- Create general awareness of the IT technology-software and services market.
- Gather pre-project documentation and ensure documentation is formatted according to Firm’s guidelines and best practices.
- Ensure post project documentation for continuous improvement of processes.
- Build and maintain documentation in areas of expertise (e.g., processes, guidelines, best practices) that can be used for reference and training purposes.
- Ensure the business has a good understanding of the business analysis processes.
- Ensure defined business analysis processes are followed within the Firm.
- Regularly review and improve business analysis processes in cooperation with the Business Analysis Team.
- Collaborate in Jira and Confluence on the tasks as they pertain to business analysis.
- Travel occasionally for project related work.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4-6 year’s experience in a software development, business analysis, project management, preferably in a professional services environment, and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Law firm experience is a plus.
- Good documentation skills.
- Experience in Jira and Confluence.
- Proven experience with development methodologies (g., Agile, Waterfall) and software design and development.
- Fluent in English and any other European language is a plus.
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) in various settings (g., video conference; audio).
- Excellent presentation skills (written and verbal).
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work in a dynamic, multicultural environment with diverse personalities at all levels of the Firm.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment, and to work under pressure- manage multiple responsibilities amid competing priorities, tight deadlines, and changing business demands and opportunities.
- Professional ethics and manners – must demonstrate the ability to maintain strict confidentiality of the Firm’s internal and personnel affairs.
- Must be a self-starter.
- Pro-active work attitude, results oriented, reliable, and flexible.
- Ability to take a structured approach to problem solving and decision making by analyzing, thinking ahead and planning.
- Ability to work on own initiative and in a team-based environment.
- Ability to find creative solutions and to think out of the box.
- Exhibits good judgement and accountability.
- Flexibility regarding working hours and willingness to work some overtime (will be working with global offices)
- Willingness to occasionally travel.
Pay rate: $120,000.00 – $130,000.00 per year.