HOT REQ Direct client requirement :: Business analyst :: NYC, NY :: 6 months

Hello,

Please go through the below requirement and let me know on recruiter@tcagroupmail.com if you have any available resources.

Role: Business analyst
Location: NYC, NY
Duration: 6 months
Interview: Face to Face 

Need only GC/USC/EAD GC local candidates

SCOPE OF SERVICES:

The Mayor's Office of Contract Services ("MOCS") has compliance and oversight responsibilities in the NYC procurement and sourcing processes, and helps City agencies to achieve their programmatic goals; to provide technical and legal assistance to agencies and vendors; and above all, to constantly improve contract management practices.

The Business Analyst (BA) will be assigned to work within the Mayor's Office of Contract Services on procurement and sourcing related projects that may include: operational improvements; and new strategies for information and data sharing across the procurement lifecycle, such as introducing technological systems/databases.

The BA will be responsible for eliciting, documenting and validating requirements from multiple business/stakeholder communities, including vendor, inter-agency, and/or agency-specific requirements, and translating those requirements into solution designs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Document a complete and thorough analysis of the "as-is" and "to-be" workflows for assigned functional area(s)
• Research the industry, and provide quantitative and qualitative assessments of issues and potential initiatives, including an evaluation of best practices
• Elicit requirements by interviewing business owners/stakeholders to understand business needs, processes, and data sources, conducting interface analysis, reviewing documentation and utilizing other techniques set forth in the BABOK
• Translate business needs into clearly defined and documented detailed requirements
• Spearhead the prioritization, solution assessment and validation of requirements with the business and technical project teams
• Develop analysis documentation,  including fit/gap analysis of NYC requirements to vendor out-of-the-box / configurable functionality, data dictionaries, and use cases
• Align NYC requirements with enterprise standards to maximize the value of off-the-shelf components
• Prepare and compile project documentation and templates. Compile existing content, training materials, and standard templates; perform needs analysis; draft new materials;  test new materials/templates for usability; and publish and maintain tools/templates
• Support Quality Assurance/Testing team to obtain user acceptance signoff in relevant functional areas

DELIVERABLE:

• High-level Business Requirements
• Detailed Use Cases and Business & Technical Requirements for assigned functional areas
• Business Process Flows and Business Rules
• Functional Design Document / Functional Specifications
• Data Dictionary
• Error Messages Inventory
• Content Inventory
• Training materials, tools, and templates, including standard procurement, solicitation and contract templates
• Assist with QA Plan & Acceptance Criteria

MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

The preferred candidate must possess:

• At least 4 years of experience as a Business Analyst in gathering business and functional requirements.
• At least 7 years of general work experience.
• A mix of private sector and public sector experience at federal, state or large municipal government levels.
• Proven experience with projects in multiple-entity environments (multiple agencies, business partners, etc.)
• Experienced with formal SDLCs and business analysis methodologies; strong knowledge of business analysis documentation standards
• Excellent oral and written communication/soft skills and the ability to clearly articulate to all project members and stakeholders; must be a team player who works well with technical and a wide of variety non-technical resources at different levels of the organization
• Must take initiative, provide decisive recommendations and show confidence in recommendations made
• Must be able to take strategic direction from executive management and participate in strategic planning activities throughout the lifetime of the project
• Must be able to see tasks through to completion without significant guidance
• Experience using standard project tools including MS Project, PowerPoint, Visio, and Excel

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

It is desirable that the preferred candidate must possess:

• Experience working in an agile methodology and creating agile deliverables
• Experience using requirements and/or testing management tools (e.g.  CaliberRM, HP QualityCenter, Atlassian JIRA)
• Experience in projects related to Sourcing / Procurement
• Advanced education in computer science, information technology and related engineering fields
• IIBA professional certification
• Experience with leading and/or managing critical aspects of a Portfolio or Project Management Office (PMO) including strategy alignment, capacity management, benefit-cost (ROI) analysis, evaluation and KPI analytics, prioritization and interdependency evaluation, roadmap development and risk management.

Thanks,
Shalin
TCA Consulting Group Inc.
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