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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *TITLE:* IT Business Systems Analyst Location : White Plains NY Long-term *DESCRIPTION:* Elicit, analyze, validate and document business requirements. Work as a liaison between the project stakeholders, IT managers and development group. The candidate must have knowledge of commodities domain and experience in the areas of IT Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), IT operational procedures and best practices. *ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: * · Gather business requirements by interfacing with internal and external stakeholders and conduct analysis for application development. Facilitate requirement workshops. · Translate business requirements into technical specifications and create deliverables in different phases of the project life-cycle by decomposing functionality into specifications and business rules. Produce business requirement document (BRD), functional specifications and business process flows. · Construct workflow charts and diagrams. · Analyze business processes and perform gap analysis, impact analysis and feasibility study. · Identify and evaluate the impact of change requests within the business application and all upstream and downstream systems. · Liaise with onsite*/*offsite development team on daily basis to monitor project progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports and recommending actions. · Create and review test cases and test plans with the Project team. Conduct functional and smoke testing. Track defects and releases · Query the database utilizing SQL commands to extract the data in order to perform data analysis and data validation. · Conduct user acceptance testing, user training and troubleshoot production incidents. · Provide production support for global users operating in various geographies in timely manner. · Maintain contacts with the data provider’s to report any outage or data discrepancy. *REQUIREMENTS:* · Strong knowledge of commodity markets. · Understanding of Market Data and Trading in Commodity Domain. · Experience with multiple projects involving data integration/interfaces. · Strong Data Analysis skills including translations and transformations of data set. · Experience with Enterprise Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and iterative methodology such as Rational Unified Process (RUP). · Moderate SQL skills with ability to extract data from Oracle database to support business objectives. · Familiarity and working knowledge of Integration platforms. · Ability to effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects/tasks of varying complexities, meet deadlines and work well under pressure. · Ability to independently develop business knowledge and drive issue resolution. · 5+ yrs. of experience in business systems analysis role in fast-paced, dynamic, team-based environments along with strong QA skills · A methodical approach to tasks with strong documentation skills. · Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. [image: regards-thumb8083555] Tom Martin Sr. IT Recruiter 459 Herndon Parkway Suite 11, Herndon, VA – 20170 tmar...@idexcel.com I www.idexcel.com Phone: 571-441-0419 l Fax: (703) 880-7584 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "US_IT.Groups" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to us_itgroups+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to us_itgroups@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/us_itgroups. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
