The State of Rhode Island is seeking an Intermediate Business Analyst to assist with a variety of tasks within the agency related to the State’s multi-year Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project. The Business Analyst is required to work with Department stakeholders understand business goals and implement technology solutions within the business environment.
Responsibilities:
- Work with stakeholders to understand the details of business processes, policies and procedures.
- Understand different business practices including Human Resources, Finance and other areas of government practice and identify areas of continuous improvement.
- Analyze business requirements from different areas and identify areas of similarity or gaps between programs.
- Document business processes and translate to system processes.
- Prioritize requirements and facilitate the review and approval of design documents.
- Identify system design decisions that require Executive business input.
- Develop scenarios and use cases to test full business functionality.
- Work with business to develop test cases to test IT functionality.
- Conduct testing of IT systems in both implementation and maintenance environments.
- Troubleshoot issues in IT system to ensure business use cases are met.
- Help develop training material for business stakeholders.
- Communicate with project management staff on changes and risks that arise in system implementation.
Requirements:
- Three years experience as a business analyst or similar position.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, Powerpoint).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work on a variety of tasks with competing priorities.
- Communicate and collaborate with Agency Business and Technology leads.
- Capacity to work within a complex and highly visible project.
- Exceptional decision-making skills and ability to work collaboratively and independently.
- Ability and willingness to be onsite in Rhode Island in a hybrid (3 onsite/2 remote) schedule. This is not a remote position