Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Tallahassee, Florida (Hybrid)
Duration: 2+ yrs
Rate: Inclusive
Start Date: December, 2024
Responsibility:
The selected candidate will be assigned to analyze and document end-user impacts for computing assets affected by Florida PALM within the Office of Work Program and Budget (OWPB).
Education
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or financial related field and 10 years professional work experience. Work experience can substitute on a year for year basis for the degree. Special consideration will be given to candidates with Six Sigma certification or similar business analysis and engineering certifications.
Experience:
Candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience in business process reengineering and documentation. This experience must also be in a professional environment, preferably in a financial discipline. Candidates will be expected to describe multiple past experiences with business process tools and how they were deployed for a successful outcome that met customer’s objectives.
Job Specific Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)
The submitted candidate must be able to apply common knowledge, skills, and abilities in the following areas:
1. Knowledge of financial management best practices which can be translated to transportation financial practices.
2. Ability to produce legible and complete functional documentation in a way that thoroughly captures business processes and inputs/outputs of the applications.
3. Ability to analyze and accurately and completely define processes and workflows to design efficient information solutions, including missing or duplicate functionality in existing applications.
4. Ability to work effectively with users and a project team, to identify and document requirements for the maintenance, enhancement, or development of computer application systems, including technical overviews and context diagrams.
5. Knowledge of financial management best practices which can be translated to transportation financial practices.
6. Ability to produce legible and complete functional documentation in a way that thoroughly captures business processes and inputs/outputs of the applications.
7. Ability to analyze and accurately and completely define processes and workflows to design efficient information solutions, including missing or duplicate functionality in existing applications.
8. Ability to work effectively with users and a project team, to identify and document requirements for the maintenance, enhancement, or development of computer application systems, including technical overviews and context diagrams.
9. Knowledge of relational database theories and concepts.
10. Skill in testing complex applications and interpreting whether requirements and designs were met in the product.
11. Ability to plan, organize, coordinate, and prioritize work assignments for him/herself or lower-level analysts.
12. Skill in accurately preparing schedule estimates for requirements analysis and computer programming tasks in a computer application maintenance environment.
13. Ability to work effectively with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, and Technical Architects to build efficient, viable solutions in the maintenance of business applications utilizing all established Departmental standards.
14. Ability to prepare complex computer program specifications.
15. Ability to prepare computer program test plans and to create test databases and test environments.
16. Ability to interpret and communicate technical information related to computer programming and data processing, both verbally and in writing.
17. Advanced skills with Microsoft products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project.
18. Experience working on accounting and financial computing applications and monitoring complex interfaces with external systems.
19. Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies and practices.
20. Knowledge of the SCRUM Framework.
Preferred (but not required) KSAs
21. Azure DevOps
22. Skill in performing QA reviews in determining that standards are met.
23. Knowledge of Job Control Language (JCL), Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) panels, and supporting mainframe software.
24. Skill in data conversion techniques, data cleansing approaches and validating data relationships.
We are unable to work with third parties, no visa sponsorship/transfer, and W-2 only.
