Business Analyst / New York, New York

Title: Business Analyst

Location: New York, New York

Duration :6 months

JOB DESCRIPTION :   The Business Analyst role is responsible for analyzing the business needs of the clients to which they are assigned, to identify opportunities and propose solutions for improving business processes and the business' use of information systems. Client managers represent the needs of the business to the rest of Brookfield Technology Services (BTS), and follow the policies and procedures of BTS in supporting the business - they are the face of IT to their clients. The current opening supports Brookfield Corporate Operations, which includes departments such as Administration, Legal, HR, Payroll, and BTS itself, and directly supports the Chief Compliance and Administrative Officer. The position reports to the Vice President, Business Technology.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Document and analyze current and future state business processes
• Gather and document requirements for information systems
• Create functional design specifications
• Support the development and data migration process
• Document test plans, test cases and scripts
• Manage and execute testing and support for UAT
• Create training materials and deliver training
• Provide deployment support
• Provide post deployment maintenance support and user support
• Facilitate user advisory committee activities
• Interface with other IT groups - Application Management, Application Development, Infrastructure
• Participate in projects supporting their clients as client representative
• Monitor that project deliverables are met according to specifications and plans
• Guide and assist the user groups on issues related to the design, development and deployment of mission critical information systems
• Manage client specific projects as well as perform business analysis tasks in support of projects.

SERVICE/PERSONALSKILLS:

• Detail oriented with good organizational skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Persuasive, encouraging, influential and motivating
• Possess critical thinking abilities
• Be self managed, able to work independently and within a team
• Strong ownership mentality - takes ownership of items through resolution
• Able to learn, understand and apply new technologies.
• Willing to learn the business and understand business processes
• Able to work with various levels of staff; such as senior managers, property managers, property accountants, building engineers

 EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 5-7 years business analysis and/or operations support in a financial services and/or real estate environment
• Experience documenting user requirements
• Experience documenting application and operational support requirements
• System implementation experience
• Knowledge of Sharepoint is a plus

Please Send your resume to jobs_at_mapleresource.net Received on Fri Jun 25 2010 - 20:56:42 CEST