Senior Business Analyst

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Senior Business Analyst in Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid).

Contract Duration: 18 Months + possible extensions/conversion

Required Skills & Experience

Ability to write user stories and work with tech on refinement acceptance criteria.

Must understand commercial banking and wire processing.

Advanced in creating process flows.

Background in Creating Use Cases

Proactive, independent self-starter, who can work in collaboration with the product and cross functional teams and partners.

Document current flows and future flows from user experience.

Knowledge of JIRA/Confluence application for Agile development.

Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate ideas to diverse business and technical audiences.

Proficiency with MS Office software products including MS Project, Power Point, Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint and TEAMS.

Experience navigating heavily matrixed organizations, including multiple business lines.

Experience with payment systems.

Knowledge of wire transfers, SWIFT, ISO, CHIPS, Fedwire.

What You Will Be Doing

Create user stories & Process Flows.

Review User stories with Project team.

Update and maintain user stories in JIRA.

Attend daily sprints, backlog review, playbacks, etc.

Lead cross functional teams to strategize, plan, and execute a variety of programs, services and initiatives.

Drive accountability for assigned initiatives, limit risk exposure, and create efficiencies as appropriate.

Review strategic approaches and effectiveness of support function and business performance.

Perform assessments through fact finding and data requiring creative approaches to solving complex issues and develop appropriate solutions or recommendations.

Make decisions in highly complex and multifaceted situations requiring solid understanding of business group's functional area or products, facilitate decision making and issue resolution, and support implementation of developed solutions and plans.

Collaborate and consult with members of the Business Execution team and team leaders to drive strategic initiatives.

Influence, guide and lead less experienced Strategy and Execution staff within the group.