Key skills
Business AnalysisAgile MethodologyWaterfall MethodologyBusiness RequirementsProcess MappingSwim Lane DiagramsFlowchartsValue Stream MappingBlueWorks LiveArisPrompt EngineeringServiceNowJiraSystems Development Life CycleSDLCScrumUser StoryFunctional RequirementTechnical Requirement ElicitationFunctional SpecificationTechnical Requirement SpecificationGenAIAgileLeadershipCommunication
About this role
KPMG US is seeking a Technical Business Analyst to serve as the critical bridge between business stakeholders and IT. The role involves translating business needs into technical specifications, driving the requirements lifecycle, and ensuring successful delivery of business objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze, translate and communicate business requirements back to development team, through BRDs, detailed process flows, diagrams, use cases, and user stories
- Elicit, compile, document, and manage clear and testable functional and technical requirements by being an active leader, using a variety of elicitation methods such as interviewing, workshops, business processes, and workflow review
- Responsible for highly effective verbal and written communication within the effort (project team, stakeholders, and sponsors), and with leadership, building trusted relationships through assignments
- Perform functional and technical 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
- Responsible for maintaining skills within the profession that will allow for proactive assessment of effort needs and completing business analysis deliverables
- Understand, support, and contribute to the organization’s strategy and contribute ideas and feedback within the department
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years experience in related role
- Minimum of a high school diploma or GED required
- Experience in both Waterfall and Agile and creating deliverables that are specific to those methodologies (e.g. BRDs/ Features, Epics and User Stories with Acceptance Criteria)
- Understanding 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
- Forward-thinking with a desire to incorporate GenAI tools into daily work
- Experience in working with ServiceNow modules and using it and/or Jira for documenting requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred
- Familiarity with BlueWorks Live and Aris is a plus
- Skills in prompt engineering being a plus