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*job summary*:*key responsibilities*:assists the business to define and document what constitutes business success for small to medium size initiatives.
may work as a part of a team on project definition and documentation for larger initiatives.elicits, analyzes, and documents functional requirements across the five aspects (process, information, event, socio-political, and location), as appropriate for the initiative.
may work as part of a team to gather requirements.elicits, analyzes, and documents non-functional business requirementsconducts requirements management activities, as necessary, ensuring that the impact of changes are well understood and approved by the appropriate stakeholders.assists with or conducts solution assessment and validation to ensure that functional and technical specifications meet the identified business needsassists with or reviews test plans and testing methodology to mitigate risks and participates in testing the solution to ensure the solution meets functional and non-functional requirementsassists with problem analysis as needed.
escalates issues for additional analysis and resolution as appropriate.develops positive relationships with both the business and other functions involved in downstream technical processeslearn business relationship management best practices to support delivery of business value.
*responsibilities* *competencies*:balances stakeholders - anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.communicates effectively - developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.business analysis planning - identifies the activities needed to conduct business analysis considering the five business aspects, level of detail, and approach for eliciting requirements to plan for resources and techniques to document the business needs and solution characteristics.business process design - discovers, models, analyzes, measures and improves business processes using standards, templates, tools and methodologies to optimize business performance.requirements analysis - evaluates relationships and interdependencies between requirements based upon their complexity and value to the business in order to determine feasibility and prioritization.requirements elicitation - discovers and documents functional and non-functional requirements using the business analysis toolkit (modeling the five aspects and creating use cases) to effectively communicate the business needs and solution characteristics for solution design.solution assessment and validation - assesses the proposed solution using the requirements traceability through the life cycle of the requirements to determine if they deliver the desired business outcome