Business Analyst (5147)

SMX is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Business Analyst to support their Enterprise Data Analytics Platform effort for a Federal customer. The role involves gathering and maintaining business and system requirements, analyzing financial data, and translating functional requirements into technical specifications for development.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering and maintaining business and system requirements for mid to large enterprise applications
• Provide Financials related business process analysis to identify business process impacts of system changes
• Analyze financial data from legacy systems and determine how the data elements and transactional records should be mapped and migrated into to analytical platform
• Translate functional requirements into technical specifications to be provided to the technical team for development
• Test and approve the final developed artifacts as a Business Analyst
• Determine the integration of financial datasets with that from other domains like Logistics, Human Resources etc
• Develop a deep understanding of business objectives and strategies to ensure architectural vision is fully aligned with those objectives and strategies
• Conduct workshops with customers to gain a comprehensive understanding of their current data and business processes
• Prepare and present briefings to the client and program leads on approach, courses of action and implementation status

Requirements:

• Active DoD Secret level security clearance are required
• Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field
• 6 years of related work experience
• Experience in business process analysis/management, enterprise solution implementations, operations analysis and/or strategic planning and a background in management consulting
• Experience in planning and leading financial requirements analysis workshops with stakeholders and functional POC's in the Federal government sector
• Experience with creating functional designs and translating functional requirements into technical specifications
• Experience working with SAP Financial dataset to include FICO, AP, AR and Invoicing in a DoD system
• Knowledge of common SAP data elements between the FICO and other modules like MM, PP etc
• Experience working with GFEBS
• Experience working as a Business Analyst and testing the end product developed by the technical developers
• Experience coding in Python/Pyspark and SQL
• Experience within a Software/Systems Development Life Cycle with solid understanding of the roles and tasks involved
• Significant experience in managing multiple priorities independently and/or in a team environment
• Ability to work cross-functionally, and participate in discussions
• Proven ability to work independently on assigned tasks without any supervision
• Driven, self-directed personality
• Strong sense of mission and commitment to making a difference