Position: Business Analyst
Location: Washington, DC (metro accessible)

Rate : $45-48 /hr on C2C

Client : World Bank
Duration: 12+ month contract
Hybrid: 4 days a week onsite****
onsite role

Role is not retail bank, it's a non-profit finance corporation .

The primary role of the Business Analyst is to elicit, document and analyze business/functional requirements. The Business Analyst will play a vital role in functional and system integration testing.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Finance
• Role Specific Experience: 3+ years of relevant technical and business work experience
• Banking & Financial domain experience, along with knowledge of risk management, familiarity with concepts of finance and accounting
• Experience with credit risk and credit ratings in a banking or financial domain is a huge plus
• Proficiency in MS Excel
• Experience in defining and implementing technology solutions for a major financial institution
• Extensive experience as a Business Analyst for a large financial institution
• Extensive experience in gathering business requirements and developing functional specifications with special emphasis on use cases, defining test cases, and providing user training and support
• Extensive experience with various system development lifecycle methodologies and tailoring the artifacts to those methodologies
• Solution-oriented, detailed-focused, showing strong analytical and organization skills
• Familiarity with relational databases/RDMS
• Experience with writing simple SQL statements (mostly SELECT - with aim to analyze datasets)
• Familiarity with any object-oriented programming language is a plus (C# preferred)

SCOPE OF WORK:

• Interface with the business client to understand business needs and requirements, and to help develop and maintain the client relationship
• Build stakeholder consensus and ensure everyone is on the same page, in agreement, and can visualize the solution being proposed
• Develop business cases, requirements, use cases, test plans, test strategies, test cases, and operational procedures and plans
• Document business processes and workflows
• Craft business cases to evaluate the feasibility of technology initiatives
• Identify business and functional requirements by working with application end-users, and lead the collection, analysis, documentation, and coordination of those requirements
• Design and execute test cases for application development and implementation projects
• Collaborate with IT professionals to determine if solutions currently exist (internally or externally) or whether new solutions are feasible to meet business requirements
• Leverage rapid prototyping approaches to present as-is/to-be processes/workflows and rough designs of the proposed solution
• Maintain a comprehensive chronological trail of requirements and agreements and actively contribute to the project change control process. Document and manage issues and actions
• Provide overall support to ensure the successful design, testing, and implementation of applications that support the business unit, Also, provide support in developing training materials and conducting training
• Document and manage issues and actions for IT applications and projects
• Prepare and make presentations using MS PowerPoint and Visio to project stakeholders and management
• Evaluate applications and IT environments, and analyze gaps between current and desired states