Business Analyst
Accenture
Accenture
This role involves translating user needs into effective business and digital solutions across diverse industries. You will be instrumental in understanding requirements and shaping them into actionable plans for development teams.
As a Business Analyst, you will analyze existing processes and design future states, clearly defining business, solution, and system requirements. Collaboration is key; you'll facilitate workshops with clients to gather insights and interact with stakeholders to grasp their needs, representing this understanding to the wider team.
Effective communication and acting as a liaison for the product backlog are vital. Your responsibilities extend to iteration planning, backlog refinement, and crafting detailed user stories with clear acceptance criteria. You will manage stakeholder relationships, bridging the gap between your team, the client, and project management.
Key responsibilities include dissecting current processes and designing future states to articulate business, solution, and system requirements. You will lead client workshops to effectively elicit and comprehend their needs. A significant part of the role involves engaging with various stakeholders to gain a profound understanding of their objectives and translating these into team-understandable terms, utilizing techniques such as story mapping and process modeling.
Furthermore, you'll ensure seamless communication within the team, serving as the primary contact for clarifications on product backlog items. Your scope encompasses iteration planning, backlog refinement, and the creation of user stories with defined acceptance criteria. Managing stakeholder expectations and acting as an interface between the team, customer, and project manager are also core duties.
You will explore and present various solution options to meet client requirements, guiding them and internal teams in making informed decisions by balancing business value against technical complexity. Detailing user stories based on client criteria or practice guidelines and collaborating closely with key internal and external project stakeholders will be integral to your success. Maintaining the accuracy and consistency of requirements throughout the change lifecycle and supporting their reuse in future solutions are also expected.
Essential qualifications include the ability to ensure specifications and requirements are well-defined and prepared for implementation. You should be adept at understanding initial product backlog and inception documentation to form a comprehensive view of project scope. Contributing to and understanding the product backlog item refinement process is crucial.
It's important to be able to articulate project issues effectively and seek assistance from project management or lead BAs when needed. While not mandatory, familiarity with commerce platforms like SAP Hybris or similar tools would be a distinct advantage. The position requires 2-3 years of experience in a similar role.
Accenture
IT Consulting