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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

[itroundtable] Job Lead - Business Analyst - NYC - 90k Contract to Perm

Please self-screen and let John know that I referred you. Please do not send me your resume as I am not the recruiter nor am I the hiring manager. All information on this job lead may be found below.

Good Luck !

Thank you.

Regards,

Peter

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From: John Fugate <jfugate@techlink.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:45 PM
Subject: Need your help, can refer me to a Business Analyst exploring new opportunities in NYC?
To: lutzpf@gmail.com

Hi Peter

I was hoping you could refer me to a Business Analyst in NYC looking for a new opportunity. I have a contract to hire opportunity with an International Theme Park Company located in New York City for a BA/PM with excellent vendor management experience. The intention of our client is to convert this to a full time position after 3-6 months, the full time salary max is $90K.

Below are the job details, thanks so much for your time on this.
If we can make a successful placement we are more than happy to pay you a referral bonus!

All the best,
John

Job Description:

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Work with business stakeholders to identify and define the business problem and business case. Be able to express the context of the change within the business strategy and existing change programs.

 Elicit, validate and consolidate all levels of business requirements, including any significant business rules that will influence the business solution design. This includes the use of appropriate requirements definition techniques and the prioritization of the requirements in order to gain business value swiftly.

 Collect and validate the non-functional requirements. This includes performance, implementation design, usability, security and audit, and appropriate legislative requirements.

 Lead the definition, evaluation and agreement of the business solution options (collaborating with key stakeholders across the business and technology teams). This may include the evaluation of third party solutions.

 Lead the refinement of the requirements and business solution definition, including acceptance criteria – working closely with the key stakeholders. Manage and communicate the refinement of the requirements.

 Support the IT QA activities by ensuring acceptance criteria are well documented and have the appropriate level of coverage.

 To deliver IT solutions to users' requirements or problems to agreed time, cost and quality expectations, in line with the plan, and subject to change control

 To achieve high standards of customer service (to anticipate and focus on the needs of customers as a priority (both internal and external) and act to ensure they are met)

 To produce a Project Initiation Document, project plans and other associated project documentation for each project to confirm – and gain agreement to – scope, budget, timescales, resources and other project parameters

 To identify and manage project dependencies and critical path

 To estimate the resources needed to achieve project goals

 To plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools such as MS Project

 To manage and monitor time spent on project milestones and deliverables to ensure that they are completed on time and within budget

 To identify, plan and manage the mitigations needed to the risks faced by the project