Senior Associate, Business Analyst

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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate, Business Analyst to join our Growth and Strategy organization.

Responsibilities:

• Work with solution team owners and subject matter experts to develop and document business requirements, system use cases, functional, non-functional and operational requirements
• Review and analyze the request backlog for fit/gap to existing architecture patterns and solutions; work with business teams and architects to close gaps by recommending existing pattern solutions whenever possible; identify similar requests, work with solution owners to reach consensus and consolidate
• Represent solution owner in functions including backlog prioritization, participate in sprint planning/grooming and resourcing requirements
• Elicit and capture business requirements in an Agile software development environment
• Facilitate discussions with team in developing acceptance criteria for user stories and assist with operational transition, training, knowledge transfer and SOP documentation
• Partner closely with our Architecture team, project managers and offshore development teams managing work using Agile Scrum & Kanban boards

Qualifications:

• Minimum three years of recent experience as a business analyst
• Bachelor's degree in a related field from a leading accredited college/university preferred
• Experience writing requirements for architecture solutions using an agile software development process, preferably Azure DevOps; Demonstrated ability to provide robust documentation and interacting with multi-disciplined teams, architects, infrastructure, software development, testing, operations and support
• Experience with creation and execution of test plans, ability to trace test plans to requirements
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and a team player who works well with functional and technical resources; aptitude for taking strategic direction from executive management and see tasks through to completion without significant guidance
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future

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