Business Analyst - Remote - Travel Required - Contract

Role Overview:

The Business Analyst (BA) will elicit and document business requirements and processes during the Discovery Initiative for Phases 2 and 3 of the project. The BA will work closely with a Project Manager and other IT Resources to ensure the Discovery Initiative objectives are met and that a high quality and accurate Business Requirements Document is produced for their assigned End-to-End Process Team(s).

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify and Understand Business Problems:
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations.
• Elicit requirements to resolve business problems or solve process inefficiencies
• Translate Business Objectives into Requirements:
• Convert business objectives into clearly written requirements for an IT Project.
• Work to ensure that these requirements are feasible and align with the overall business strategy.
• Requirements Management:
• Ensure the Requirements Traceability Matrix stays updated and aligned with the Business Requirements Document.
• Trace requirements throughout their lifecycle, manage changes, and validate and verify requirements continuously.

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree or higher in Business, Computer Science or related field and at least 5 years of Business Analysis experience. Experience writing requirements for an SAP project is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation communication skills.
• Intermediate MS Excel skills required.
• Advanced MS Word skills required.
• Candidates that can also document basic business process flows in Visio will be preferred.

Other Requirements:

• 25% Travel will be required for up to 5 days a week (Mon-Fri). Travel destinations include Vicksburg, MS; Newell, WV; Roanoke, VA; Hattiesburg, MS; possibly Severn, NC; and Nashville, TN, with the majority of the time, 75%, being spent in Flowood, MS.