Senior Business Analyst- Halifax

REQUIRED TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE:

• Leads cross-functional business process re-engineering teams and continuous improvement efforts. Identifies opportunities for process improvement and makes recommendations to service owners, including changes to job functions.
• Documents business processes using relevant modelling techniques such as Use Case, Swim-lane, and Data Flow Diagramming.
• Analyses processes to recommend fundamental improvements to management which exploit technology components, eliminate redundant tasks, and/or minimize duplication of effort.
• Conducts management interviews, research, and facilitated multi stakeholder workshops to elicit detailed business requirements. Performs analysis and facilitates stakeholder consensus to create documented, agreed upon to-be and as-is business requirements and specifications.
• Facilitate consensus with respect to conflicting requirements and requirements priorities.
• Challenge business clients on their assumptions and expectations and promote innovative changes.
• Develops and maintains Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure all business requirements, design components, and testing elements are being addressed by the project.
• Monitor adherence to business objectives, policies and standards, initiative scope, and consistency.
• Analyzes proposed Project Change Requests for impacts on documented Business Requirements and projected Business Benefits. 
• Defines the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategy; Leads the UAT; manages development of UAT test cases.
• Leads the UAT, assigning testing tasks, managing issues and defects found during UAT and undertaking quality and completeness reviews. 
• Analyzes training needs and supports the development of training plan and training curriculum or modifications to existing curriculum.
• Supports delivery of training.
• Works with project team and business stakeholders to ensure the Business is operationally ready to effectively utilize the implemented solution.
• Leads operation transition activities and documentation.
• Collaborate with Business Change Management project team members on business change management activities including supporting communications.
• Support solution configuration work led by implementation vendor.
• Demonstrated experience as BA on SAP project.  Experience with SAP SuccessFactors implementation preferred.  
• Previous experience working with Public Sector.  Past project experience with Canadian municipality considered an asset.