Business Analyst

Tech Valley Talent (TVT) has a great long-term role for a Business Analyst with ERP implementation and organizational change management experience. Due to contract terms NO third parties – direct consultant applicants only DURATION: 24 months LOCATION: Albany, NY– Remote with occasional onsite meetings in Albany, NY This Business Analyst role will be supporting the Strategic Operations Team by working with stakeholders on the NEIS Transformation Project designing, implementing, and improving business processes as well as accomplishing other relevant tasks, such as assisting with testing and UAT, to help with the implementation of a new system. Qualifications • Bachelor degree required; concentrated in Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology or related field highly preferred. • 3+ years of experience in a Business Analysis role. • Experience in documenting requirements and specifications, and creating visual aids representing business processes using standard methods. • Experience with project management methods processes, standards, and tools. • Ability to elicit functional needs from business users and translate those needs to existing functionality in a configurable system application. • Skill in managing multiple diverse activities simultaneously, delivering on commitments, and operating with speed, accuracy, and strong judgement. • Active listening skills and the ability to understand and define and document meeting outcomes and business needs effectively. • Demonstrated the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Experience in ERP implementation and organizational change management a plus. • Basic understanding of Salesforce, SharePoint 0365 is a plus. • Understanding and experience with Microsoft Visio highly desired. Responsibilities • Collaborate with business leads and other business analysts to develop and transform requirements into systems design and implementation; • Collect, document, map, and analyze business process and system dependencies • Gather, synthesize, and document business requirements • Effectively communicate status, collaborate, and problem-solve with relevant organizational stakeholders and contracted system implementation team • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify recommendations for process improvements • Quality assurance and defining testing strategies and risks • Contribute to the testing of system integrations and configurations • Coordinate user acceptance testing with system vendor and internal staff • Track task and milestone completion • and monitor project risk • Schedule and coordinate meetings between system vendors and internal teams • Note-taking and notes consolidation • Assist in the development of training resources to support implementations and reengineered processes • Assist with organizational change management related communications and initiatives; • Other duties as assigned that contribute to the key outcomes of the Strategic Operations team. TVT is an Information Technology (IT) professional business leader providing IT services to the public sector. Our firm is founded on the values of high integrity, trust, honesty, and commitment. We take pride in providing exceptional value to our clients by supplying and delivering the best IT project-based and hourly talent across the nation. We are business partners with many technology solution providers such as IBM, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Tableau, Salesforce, and others. Tech Valley Talent provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.