Full-Time Business Analyst Standard III

Title: Business Analyst Standard IIIDuration: Long Term Location: Washington, DC 20433 *Local Candidates Only to DMV Area*Hybrid Onsite: 4 Days onsite per week from Day1.

Must Have:

• The client is seeking candidates with strong communication skills to engage with users and document data requirements.
• The ideal candidate should have experience working as part of a team in an analyst role on projects involving the implementation of data marts, data warehouses (DW), and operational data stores. Prior experience in gathering and documenting data requirements is essential.
• Candidate should have expertise in managing large datasets (details about the size and scale of datasets are essential) and working on large-scale data and reporting applications.
• The candidate must be analytically sharp, capable of understanding and interpreting data from data models and data marts, with the ability to interpret and analyse data, data flow effectively.
• Additionally, the candidate must be able to write advanced queries using SQL and PL/SQL to work with complex data.
• A strong understanding of the financial domain, particularly in areas such as Treasury, Accounting, and financial data, is crucial for this role.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Interact with business stakeholders to gather data, reporting and analytic requirements for financial data sets.
• Perform data analysis, data lineage, and profiling of data from source system to data repositories and reports.
• Responsible for data mapping to any “to-be” data structures.
• Create specifications for Reporting/Analytic requirements and work with business users to elicit hidden requirements and clarify vague requirements, as well as ensure sign offs on requirements.
• Interact with technical teams and guide offshore development resources to help translate requirements into solutions.
• Responsible for providing functional and technical guidance to the development team.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing of reports and data driven solutions by working with the business users.
• Assist the Program Managers with tracking work program deliverables using the appropriate SDLC methodologies including agile scrum.
• Manage daily technical challenges and communicates to management any risks or issues.
• Develop, manage, and maintain processes, procedures, and documentation for handover to application support.

Skills / Experience Required

• Minimum 8+ yrs. of relevant experience and master's degree plus required industry certificates; or bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong analytical skills coupled with capabilities to understand and interpret data
• Experienced IT professional working on large data and reporting applications as well a strong understanding of Operational data stores, Data Warehouses and/or Data Marts.
• Strong understanding of accounting concepts, finance and economic principles and working experience in general accounting procedures and reconciliations
• Broad experience of middle and back-office functions of financial organizations
• Excellent skills in analyzing data, gathering requirements and working with clients and technical teams to translate requirements into solution.
• Proficient in the use of PL/SQL and ability to read data models, infer data flows and write complex queries
• Hands on experience with reporting tools (like Power BI, SAP BO, Tableau) and ability to perform ad hoc analysis.
• Strong project management skills with a process orientation and ability to leverage Agile concepts
• Familiarity in using agile tools such as Azure devops
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals.

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