Business Analyst

Anakim Consulting Inc. is seeking a mid-level Business Analyst to support a cloud services environment. The role involves providing support in identifying services and processes for IT systems, maintaining compliance documentation, and serving as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.

Responsibilities:

• Provide mid-level support to the program office in identifying services, processes and cost for existing and future IT systems
• Prepare and modify presentations, drawings, flow charts, diagrams, narrative documents and other data for projects/customer presentations and report in a variety of media
• Maintain detailed knowledge of the required compliance documentation. Maintains and updates electronic files, record and data
• Maintain databases current in support of project control and other applicable business activities
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, cloud engineering, operations, security, and governance teams
• Maintain responsibility for translating mission, program, and customer needs into clear, actionable requirements; supporting cloud service planning and consolidation initiatives; and ensuring traceability across requirements, decisions, costs, and outcomes
• Enable standardized cloud services, controlled change, and data-driven decision-making across the enterprise cloud environment
• Elicit, analyze, and document business and technical requirements for cloud services, platforms, and initiatives
• Support cloud consolidation, modernization, and optimization efforts by assessing current-state environments and defining future-state needs
• Develop and maintain requirements artifacts including business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement across programs, cloud engineering, security, finance (FinOps), and governance bodies
• Support cloud finance office with customer communications and collections for cloud payments
• Support Architecture Review Boards (ARB), Change Control Boards (CCB), and operational reviews with analysis, documentation, and decision traceability
• Assist in defining service catalogs, intake processes, and standardized workflows for cloud services
• Maintain traceability between requirements, architectural decisions, implementation tasks, and delivered outcomes
• Support development of roadmaps, milestones, and metrics for cloud services initiatives
• Contribute to continuous improvement of cloud governance, processes, and reporting

Requirements:

• Experience in enterprise IT or cloud environments
• Provide mid-level support to the program office in identifying services, processes and cost for existing and future IT systems
• Prepare and modify presentations, drawings, flow charts, diagrams, narrative documents and other data for projects/customer presentations and report in a variety of media
• Maintain detailed knowledge of the required compliance documentation
• Maintains and updates electronic files, record and data
• Maintain databases current in support of project control and other applicable business activities
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, cloud engineering, operations, security, and governance teams
• Maintain responsibility for translating mission, program, and customer needs into clear, actionable requirements
• Support cloud service planning and consolidation initiatives
• Ensure traceability across requirements, decisions, costs, and outcomes
• Enable standardized cloud services, controlled change, and data-driven decision-making across the enterprise cloud environment
• Elicit, analyze, and document business and technical requirements for cloud services, platforms, and initiatives
• Support cloud consolidation, modernization, and optimization efforts by assessing current-state environments and defining future-state needs
• Develop and maintain requirements artifacts including business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement across programs, cloud engineering, security, finance (FinOps), and governance bodies
• Support cloud finance office with customer communications and collections for cloud payments
• Support Architecture Review Boards (ARB), Change Control Boards (CCB), and operational reviews with analysis, documentation, and decision traceability
• Assist in defining service catalogs, intake processes, and standardized workflows for cloud services
• Maintain traceability between requirements, architectural decisions, implementation tasks, and delivered outcomes
• Support development of roadmaps, milestones, and metrics for cloud services initiatives
• Contribute to continuous improvement of cloud governance, processes, and reporting