PLADS Business Analyst

Aflac is a Fortune 500 company and an industry leader in voluntary insurance products. The PLADS Business Analyst will support multiple business segments by performing complex business processes, assisting with project deliverables, and providing technical solutions to meet user needs.

Responsibilities:

• Performs work for multiple business segments; supports moderate to highly complex business processes
• Serves as a team member for projects of moderate to large scope and moderate to high complexity
• Assists with project deliverables such as project initiation requests, business and technical requirements, use cases, interface specifications, business architecture models, cost/benefit analysis, risk and issue logs, test plans, training plans and elevation / validation plans
• Provides technical solutions to meet user needs, manages business unit expectations and maintains established business relationships
• Communicates and presents moderately complex technical concepts simply and effectively to nontechnical team members Collects, analyzes, and documents business and technical requirements
• Assesses long term needs, performs gap analysis and makes future state recommendations
• Participates in JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions with business partners to enable technical solutions that allow for process improvements
• Owns project deliverables/artifacts, works in a self-directed environment to develop artifacts
• Conducts systems analysis with a focus on technical process models and use cases
• Provides testing support and analysis for defect resolution
• Performs other related duties as required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or a related field
• Two or more years of relevant technical work experience that has provided an understanding of organizational systems and capabilities, business operations and requirements, business modeling concepts, software development methodologies, etc
• Advanced database skills with experience using MS Access, SQL knowledge of how relational databases work
• Ability to apply statistical and other research methods into systems issues as required; review complex data and derive summary conclusions
• High value contributor / value added professional
• Business Processes
• Business Case Preparation
• Business Cost Benefit Analysis
• Business Definition Requirements
• Functional Specification Development
• Requirements Definition Development
• System Process Flows
• Technical Use Case Preparation
• Presentation Skills
• Technical Requirements Definition
• Flowchart Preparation
• Data Entity-Relationship (ER) Diagramming
• SDLC
• Microsoft Office
• Visio
• Technical Writing
• Technical Communication