Overview Collaborates with stakeholders to identify and articulate business and stakeholder requirements, as well as identify the solutions that will maximize the value delivered. This includes interviewing stakeholders, eliciting, analyzing, specifying and validating business, stakeholder, solution and transition requirements, and communicating those requirements to solution/development teams through the software development life cycle (Agile, Waterfall, Iterative). Applies proven communication, modeling, analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, negotiation, influence and leadership skills to ensure stakeholder expectations are met. Produces requirements on large, complex Enterprise projects that require planning, elicitation, documentation, analysis and management of business. Acts as a liaison between the business customer and Information Technology (IT) project team(s) by building cooperative, constructive, effective working relationships with internal and external customers. Ensures IT understands the business and stakeholder requirements and resolves any gaps in understanding. Guides and advises less-experienced BAs. Competent to work at the highest skill level while considering the business implications of the application of technology. Performs gap analysis of current and future states, facilitating sessions with the business to identify changes that are needed to achieve specific strategic and enterprise goals. Responsible to make an established range of decisions, escalating to management when necessary and updating Manager on a regular basis. Responsibilities What you will do: Responsible for planning and monitoring activities for business analysis activities. Chooses a business analysis approach that is appropriate for the change. Performs a stakeholder analysis to determine potential types and areas of impact associated with the change. Builds a strong relationship with the project manager to ensure a common understanding of the goals, objectives and scope of a change initiative. Responsible for elicitation of business requirements and related activities. Uses a variety of elicitation techniques to identify the characteristics of the change. Confirms and communicates what the stakeholders' needs are. Identifies and cultivates relationships with key stakeholders; forms and asks probing questions and actively listens to responses. Responsible for activities related to business requirements management and communication. Translates business concerns, questions and desires into clear stakeholder requirements through use cases, process diagrams, functional requirements and others. Defines relationships between various types of requirements. Traces requirements to business objectives, test cases and solutions. Assesses the value, urgency and risk associated with each individual requirement. Evaluates new and changing requirements for impact to projects. Works with stakeholders to reach approval and agreement on requirements. Acts as a liaison between the stakeholder and project team(s) to ensure understanding of the requirements will result in an effective solution. Responsible for requirements analysis and design definition. Analyzes the needs in order to recommend a solution or a range of solutions. Analyzes and quantifies the potential value of the solution options. Models and/or tailors requirements so they are understandable and usable by each stakeholder group. Responsible for strategy or Enterprise analysis. Analyzes current state of how the Enterprise functions today, setting a baseline and context for future changes. Defines future state goals and objectives and how the Enterprise needs to change to meet those goals. Understands uncertainties and assesses risks to recommend actions to deliver value. Performs gap analysis between current and future state, recommending the highest value approach for reaching the future state. Examines the potential value of the solution to determine if the change is justified. Coordinates and facilitates meetings with representatives from all levels of the organization, vendors and regulatory agencies as required to support planning, validation/acceptance and final deployment processes. Provides support, mentoring and guidance to project teams and incumbents. Performs other duties as assigned. Complies with all policies and standards.