Business Analyst

Accenture Federal Services is dedicated to helping the US federal government enhance its operations and services. The Business Analyst role focuses on ensuring that business needs are well-documented and reflected in delivered solutions, utilizing strong analytical skills and collaboration to drive successful outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements to support the design and delivery of effective solutions
• Works closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, translate them into clear specifications or user stories, and ensure alignment between business objectives and technical implementation
• Helps define current‑state and future‑state processes, identifies gaps or inefficiencies, and recommends improvements that enhance user experience and operational performance
• Works collaboratively within Agile or traditional delivery frameworks and contributes to planning, reviews, and feedback cycles
• Maintains strong communication with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders to ensure transparency, alignment, and clarity throughout the project lifecycle
• Supports development and testing activities by ensuring requirements are fully understood, creating acceptance criteria, participating in backlog refinement, and validating delivered functionality
• Assists teams by preparing test cases, reviewing outcomes, and verifying that solutions meet business expectations
• Produces high‑quality documentation such as process flows, requirements specifications, functional designs, release notes, and training materials
• Supports decision‑making by gathering data, analyzing root causes, and presenting insights or recommendations

Requirements:

• US Citizen (no dual citizenship)
• Must be eligible to obtain a government Top Secret Clearance
• Strong analytical skills
• Structured thinking
• Effective collaboration
• Gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements
• Understanding business needs and translating them into clear specifications or user stories
• Defining current-state and future-state processes
• Identifying gaps or inefficiencies and recommending improvements
• Working collaboratively within Agile or traditional delivery frameworks
• Maintaining strong communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Supporting development and testing activities
• Creating acceptance criteria
• Participating in backlog refinement
• Validating delivered functionality
• Preparing test cases
• Reviewing outcomes
• Producing high-quality documentation such as process flows, requirements specifications, functional designs, release notes, and training materials
• Gathering data, analyzing root causes, and presenting insights or recommendations