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*Role: Business Analyst* *Location: NYC NY* *Interview: Phone then F2F* *Duration: 3 month +* *Job Description:* If you are passionate about education and technology and desire to work in a fast-paced environment with business and technology groups influencing the next generation of technologies for a leading publishing and educational provider, this is the role for you! The Business Analyst will work as the liaison between the Technology teams and assigned Business area(s). The individual in this role should build, demonstrate, and maintain knowledge of the business functions, processes and controls in place. He or she should maintain a familiarity with current business issues, objectives, and strategies of the assigned area and recognize opportunities to optimally apply technology to enhance existing or build new business capabilities. This individual will work closely with the Technical lead and Product Owner to identify requirements, decompose user stories with the appropriate acceptance criteria, and support product owners to prioritize the backlog. He or she must be able to effectively communicate with Senior BA, product owner and business stakeholders using business terminology as well as possess a technical background to enable business-IT alignment. The role requires tact, diplomacy and strong written and verbal communication skills. The individual should also demonstrate critical analytical skills and sound judgment. Familiarity with Agile development a plus. The ideal candidate will have at least 3+ years of experience serving as a Business Analyst or in a similar capacity *Responsibilities include:* - Proactively seek to understand sion’s business objectives and the value they achieve - Understand how the business objectives intersect with technology, and help translate those objectives into functional requirements - Facilitate business and technology discussions regarding schedule and priority - Partner with the business to develop, quantify, and track business and technical KPIs to measure improvement - Facilitate the collection of operational or business requirements, communicate how they fit into milestones and minimum viable products for releases and track completion - Define, through written and verbal documentation, features and EPICs (higher level user stories) and decompose into user stories that developers can follow with clear acceptance criteria - Effectively communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion - Monitor post-production processes to ensure accurate completion of all details - Foster collaborative communication among technical and business teams - Clearly communicate stories and acceptance criteria to dev and QA to shape test scripts *Requirements:* - Exceptional verbal, written and communication skills - Enthusiastic team-player, as well as a self-starter - *Ability to establish goals and set clear expectations, prioritize activities, and follow through to completion* - *Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiation, problem resolution, and customer service* · Strong presentation skills - Flexibility and adaptability to adjust and alter approach promptly and efficiently, when needed · Experience in a structured SDLC – Waterfall, Agile · Ability to quickly understand the scope of the project and identify key success and risk factors - *Must be able to clearly and regularly communicate status, issues and risks to project stakeholders* - *Must be highly organized and able to multi-task* *· *Have a thorough understanding of how back-end and web-based systems interface with each other - Experience* with Microsoft Office (Word, Project, Excel, Visio & PowerPoint)* - Experience with project tracking tools such as Jira, Rally, etc. - *Bachelor’s Degree or better (focus as an MBA, MIS, computer science, mathematics, engineering, science, or other quantitative field a plus)* - *Knowledge of publishing industry or multi-channel product management, a plus* - *Experience on eCommerce applications is plus* - *Experience in migrating online applications from one platform to other is a plus. * [image: logo] *Ankush Nirala* | Technical Recruiter | Apetan Consulting LLC Tel: 201- 620- 9700* 112 | Mail: 72 Van Reipen Avenue # 255 Jersey City, NJ 07306 | Corp.Office: 15 Union Avenue, office # 6, Rutherford, New Jersey 07070 | [email protected] | G-talk: [email protected] | www.apetan.com *[image: https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.wisestamp.com/icons/facebook.png]* <http://www.facebook.com/Apetanconsulting> *[image: https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.wisestamp.com/icons/linkedin.png]* <http://www.linkedin.com/company/apetan-consulting-llc?trk=top_nav_home> *[image: https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.wisestamp.com/icons/twitter.png]* <http://twitter.com/ApetanLLC> [image: e verify] *Disclaimer*: We respect your Online Privacy. 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