Business Analyst (Technology) (contract)

KPMG US is seeking a Business Analyst (Technology) contractor to act as a liaison between business users and IT. The role involves documenting and communicating business requirements, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring project objectives are met through effective communication and management of requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Act as liaison between the business users and IT, collaborates with multiple cross-functional teams from the requirements elicitation stage through implementation of software solution
• Understand the needs of the business, documenting and communicating their business and functional requirements, and business process flows to the appropriate resources as well as monitoring project status and task completion to ensure objectives are met
• Elicit, compile, document, and manage clear and testable requirements by being an active leader, using a variety of elicitation methods such as interviewing, workshops, business process and workflow review
• Analyze, translate and communicate business requirements back to development team, through BRDs, detailed process flows, diagrams, use cases, and user stories
• Account for highly effective verbal and written communication within the effort (project team, stakeholders, and sponsors), and with leadership, building trusted relationships through assignments
• Perform requirements traceability throughout project lifecycle to validate that product meets the approved requirements; manage changing requirements and priorities; support the testing process through completion and promotion to production
• Maintain skills within the profession that will allow for proactive assessment of effort needs and completing business analysis deliverables and understand, support, and contribute to organization’s strategy and contribute ideas and feedback within department
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG’s respectful and courteous work environment

Requirements:

• Minimum three years of recent experience working as a business analyst or in a similar role
• Experience in both Waterfall and Agile and creating deliverables that are specific to those methodologies (for example: BRDs/ Features, Epics and User Stories with Acceptance Criteria); strong understanding of the Product Owner role and associated tasks
• Proficiency in process mapping techniques and methodologies: experience and understanding of process mapping techniques, such as swim lane diagrams, flowcharts, and value stream mapping
• Act as liaison between the business users and IT, collaborates with multiple cross-functional teams from the requirements elicitation stage through implementation of software solution
• Understand the needs of the business, documenting and communicating their business and functional requirements, and business process flows to the appropriate resources as well as monitoring project status and task completion to ensure objectives are met
• Elicit, compile, document, and manage clear and testable requirements by being an active leader, using a variety of elicitation methods such as interviewing, workshops, business process and workflow review
• Analyze, translate and communicate business requirements back to development team, through BRDs, detailed process flows, diagrams, use cases, and user stories
• Account for highly effective verbal and written communication within the effort (project team, stakeholders, and sponsors), and with leadership, building trusted relationships through assignments
• Perform requirements traceability throughout project lifecycle to validate that product meets the approved requirements; manage changing requirements and priorities; support the testing process through completion and promotion to production
• Maintain skills within the profession that will allow for proactive assessment of effort needs and completing business analysis deliverables and understand, support, and contribute to organization's strategy and contribute ideas and feedback within department
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred; minimum of a high school diploma or GED is required
• Familiarity with BlueWorks Live and Aris is a plus
• Forward-thinking with a desire to incorporate GenAI tools into daily work, with skills in prompt engineering being a plus
• Experience in working with ServiceNow modules and using it and/or Jira for documenting requirements is a plus