AVP, Senior Business Analyst

Provident Bank - Woodbridge Township, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Woodbridge Township, NJ

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About the position

The Senior Business Analyst at Provident Bank plays a crucial role in the Business Analysis team, collaborating with Business and Technology Teams to understand and address business and customer needs. This position focuses on documenting current processes, defining future state processes, and delivering digital solutions to enhance customer banking experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirement elicitation and JAD sessions to gather, document and align on business requirements with business and IT partners.
• Evaluate business processes to interpret requirements and uncover opportunities for improvement.
• Document detailed current and future state process flow diagrams.
• Create user interface designs and wireframes to mimic actual user experience on a digital platform.
• Ensure design and technical solutions meet business/product needs and requirements.
• Prepare requirement level estimates, work break down structure and requirement management plan for waterfall projects.
• Document and own business requirements (BRD), non-functional requirements and use cases.
• Document user stories, detailed acceptance criteria, definition of done for Agile projects.
• Work with developers to successfully implement design into products.
• Understand and analyze data to gather/extract requirements.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture team to ensure business requirements are translated to understand and evaluate technical impact.
• Work closely with QA testers to ensure successful planning of test strategy and test case execution.
• Provide SME support and clarify requirement related queries to development and QA teams.
• Triage and analyse QA and UAT issues/defects.
• Collaborate with project manager/scrum master throughout the project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery.
• Partner with business stakeholders to define and document business cases for new initiatives.
• Manage competing priorities.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years' experience in Business Analysis.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in writing user experience requirements and driving/facilitating design sprints.
• Minimum 10 years' experience in IT.
• A bachelor's degree in business or related field.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Digital Transformation projects.
• Prior experience in merger and acquisitions in Banking is a huge plus.
• Bank experience preferred, but not required.