Business Analyst, Senior

TISTA Science and Technology Corporation is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support financial business analysis and operations. The role involves liaising between customers and stakeholders to document business processes, manage requirements, and ensure compliance with federal policies.

Responsibilities:

• Lead business analysis and enhancement of complex financial business processes within VA financial systems
• Analyze upstream/downstream data flows to ensure end-to-end integrity across VA financial systems and interfacing systems
• Elicit, document, and manage business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases; map requirements to system configuration and federal policy
• Support the design and execution of functional tests (unit, SIT, UAT); support defect triage, root-cause analysis, and remediation planning
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs), desk guides, and other artifacts to comply with VA financial policy and federal reporting guidance
• Produce management reports that support audit readiness, internal controls, and performance management
• Advise product owners and leadership on process re-engineering opportunities
• Assist with development of education & outreach materials including user guides and other external communications
• Responsible for creating/updating documents required as part of an agile system development life cycle including user stories, detailed functional specifications, technical design input, process documents (such as SOP's, guidelines, and validation master plans), etc
• Apply SAFe Agile methodologies to improve project delivery and team efficiency

Requirements:

• 10 yrs relevant experience to include: CGI Momentum experience across federal management domains
• Experience working on Federal programs that are of high priority, visibility, and public facing
• Experience in writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and refining backlog items
• Experience in contributing to PI planning and backlog prioritization
• Understand high level technical flow of the integration
• Update process workflow documents and user guides
• Run meetings and manage expectations with Business team
• Able to work under minimal supervision, act independently and exercise an expert level of decision-making capability
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently in a complex, fast-evolving environment; proven problem-solving and facilitation capabilities
• Excellent communication skills to interface with finance, acquisition, and IT stakeholders; ability to produce clear process documentation and training materials
• Experience in a customer facing role, including comprehending business needs, solving complex problems, and capturing business requirements to convert them into technical requirements
• Experience with working with developers to translate business needs into user stories
• Must be able to work quickly with a high degree of accuracy with cross-functional teams
• Experience with Agile delivery programs
• Demonstrated ability and experience using Microsoft Office Suite
• Master's Degree in finance, accounting, computer science, information systems or other relevant discipline
• 8 additional years of relevant experience may be substituted for education (18 years total)
• The ability to pass a Moderate Background Investigation (MBI)