Senior IT Business Analyst

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you. CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other. Our Perks: Flexible PTO (designed to offer flexible time away for you) Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave Paid Volunteer Time Off Mental health coverage Quarterly Wellness stipend Fertility benefits Complete list of benefits here CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced Senior IT Business Analyst to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment. In this position you should have the following; excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment. Most important, demonstrate a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation. This role uses knowledge of software and IT for analyzing, transforming, and finally resolving existing business problems using technology. By serving as a liaison between the business stakeholders and implementation teams, the technical business analyst plays an integral role in ensuring that technical solutions achieve the business needs. How you'll create opportunities in this Senior IT Business Analyst role: Business Analysis: Applies critical thinking to evaluate information gathered from multiple sources and distinguish what requirements are necessary to solve the presenting problems. Translates requirements into product-specific designs and configurations, detailed requirement specifications and use cases. Delivers timely and high-quality functional specifications, design documents, mock-ups, wire-frames, business process workflows, and related documentation for new development projects and/or enhancement and modification requests for Software Engineers. Analyzes and documents business processes (As-IS), future state (To-Be), and underlying systems/applications. Drives and challenges business users on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans. Proactively identifies ways in which system and process changes can improve efficiency of key users, customer service, accuracy of results, and/or completeness of data. Project Planning: Facilitates requirements elicitation sessions with business and IT resources bringing different technological entities together to fix a given problem. Takes complete ownership for assigned tasks and timely inform the progress of the project/task to all stakeholders. Ensures that all process and documentation are consistent with best practices and standard software development life cycle. Works effectively with vendors to fully scope and estimate initiatives while ensuring that initiatives meet cost, scope and timeline objectives and constraints. Systems Support: Understands core systems, applications, and technical platforms. Performs data analysis to identify data quality issues. Documents issues with resolutions and share with team members to improve team productivity. Works closely with technical team through design, code, test and deploy to ensure requirements are clear and any issues are resolved. Interacts with Quality Assurance Analysts to design and execute functional, integration, and regression test plans for new application functionality, product releases, enhancement and regulatory modifications using business scenarios and use cases. What you will need: 5 ye