Business Analyst III - Tailored Management

Join the world's leading music company! Our client owns and operates a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.
Position Details:
Job Title: Business Analyst III
Shift: General Business Hours
Location: 21301 Burbank Blvd Woodland Hills, CA 91367 -REMOTE( Must be available to work PST hours)
Pay Rate: $ 64.60 /hr on W2
Contract Length: 14 months.
*Contract Extension or Conversion to FTE based on Performance, Attendance and Business Need*

Roles and responsibilities
Gather user requirements:

• Develop a thorough understanding of the business need, related business processes.
• Organize, prepare, and lead requirements definition sessions with the business stakeholders and/or SME's.
• Document and translate complex business problems into business requirements and functional solutions.
• Provide the right level of documentation for the audience and objective (i.e. User Stories, BPMN, Wireframes, UML, PowerPoint, etc.).
• (Document and) confirm business requirements with the clients.

Collaborate with the Scrum team/technical staff/source application teams:

• Effectively communicate the business requirements to technical staff.
• Assist in design of the proposed technical solution to the business need.
• Break down business requirements into concise JIRA tickets (Epics, User Stories, Tasks) and define Acceptance Criteria.
• Answer questions and resolve ambiguities for the developers and QA Engineers during development.
• Ensure that the software meets project objectives and customer expectations.
• Be the main point of contact for communication between the project team and the source system owners.

Business process mapping

• Understanding and documenting the current Business Process and the desired Business Process and User Journey for the Copyright Licensing Platform
• Propose and advise on potential solutions to business problems
• Help identify potential improvements for Business Transformation
• Lead Workshops to gather requirements and communicate results to stakeholders

Business test cycle planning

• Capturing Test Scenarios
• Creation and maintenance of test plans in Zephyr Scale for Business User Testing to create effective Business Sign Off
• Assisting Business with Testing

Business User Stories creation and refinement for Dev handover

• Logging detailed new requirements from discussions with the business
• Discussing the requirement with Dev Team to get them fulfilled.
• Updating and amending requirements where necessary
• Assisting in Development prioritization and planning by packaging up requirements into coherent deliveries/Product Releases

Project / JIRA Admin

• Admin and maintenance of Project Workflow in JIRA to effectively communicate the status of the development.
• Collaborate and Review with other Client and Project Team to develop and maintain best practice
• Refine and help manage the Product Backlog
• System Documentation
• Maintaining shared Documentation of the system within Confluence for use of the Business and Dev team
• Work with other Teams to understand what and where data can be sourced from

Reporting

• Assist with reporting Project OKRs / KPIs to stakeholders.

Effectively manage time and priorities:

• Complete deliverables on-time with limited supervision.
• Manage multiple work streams, assess priorities and deliver complete, accurate work products.
• Proactively resolve time conflict issues working with direct management, project managers and the user community.
• Develop agendas and conduct meetings.
• Document issues discussed and action items assigned for each meeting.

Skills

• 5+ years of business analysis experience
• Experience in gathering specifications for web-based applications.
• Experience in working in Agile teams.
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills
• Excellent technical writer and strong technical integration skills with ability to generate process documentation in narratives and diagrams.
• Anticipates needs and takes initiative to address challenges.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Basic knowledge of databases and web services
• Detail oriented and capable of delivering a high level of accuracy.
• Willing to work flexible hours for collaboration with teams +/- 8-hour time zone difference

EDUCATION:
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science or equivalent experience (at least 5 years as a Business Analyst)

Should you accept an offer of an opportunity, with this client you will be required to submit at least two professional references as part of our onboarding. You will need to supply their names, phone, email, and relationship to you.