*Business Analyst* *Job Location: SC*
*Job Duration: 6 months* Scope of Project: immediate need for a Business Analyst to assist the Office of Finance with Education Funding Act Replacement project. The scope of this project is to develop a solution that will retire an existing mainframe financial application, reduce the office's reliance on the SCDE programming team, and further improve work processes by automating processes, where possible, to eliminate manual and paper driven processes within our Finance office. This project will have two development efforts that will be running in parallel. The development of a SQL solution that will functionally operate as the current mainframe application and the development of a SQL solution that will support the new education funding plan. We are particularly looking for a Business Analyst that has *knowledge and experience with Financial/Funding systems *that can work proactively with project manager and stakeholders to define the business requirements and *test cases/plans for the new funding solution*. In addition, this Business Analyst will need to *review the existing mainframe funding system and work closely with Finance team *to define process improvements/enhancements to existing functionality for the development of the SQL solution. *DAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:* The following are primary activities which the Business Analyst will be expected to perform on the Education Funding Act Replacement project. 1. Plan and execute the timely creation of the Education Funding Act Replacement project in collaboration with the agency's appointed project stakeholders. 2. Proactively facilitate, communicate, and collaborate with external and internal entities to analyze information needs and document such needs. 3. Work collaboratively with stakeholders to elicit requirements using document analysis of prior plans, phone interviews, on-line workshops/webinars, surveys, and occasional regional on-site visits. 4. Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish unique requests from the underlying true needs. 5. Participate in the writing, editing, and finalization of the SCSETP and ensure that the final product both fulfills South Carolina's specific objectives for the plan and that it contains all of the specific, actionable information that is required to begin the implementation of the SCSETP plan. 6. Lead and own the delivery of the final product that includes a comprehensive state educational plan, resources for districts in producing their own institutional plans, as well as a template to be used as a possible guide for future plan development. 7. Identify, escalate and propose timely solutions to any and all issues which pose risks to either the On-Time Completion of the plan or to its Quality and Completeness. 8. Report project progress weekly to management. *Regards,* *Ashok Kumar | Technical Recruiter Samin Tekmindz Inc. |Delaware Mail to: ashok.ku...@tekmindz.com <ashok.ku...@tekmindz.com> * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USITCV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usitcv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to usitcv@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/usitcv. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
