Senior Business Analyst

Job Number: 60100753

Description

PRIMARY PURPOSE:

Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs. Possesses expertise in the business unit(s) this role supports, as well as, an understanding of the IT organization's systems and capabilities.  Able to work on multiple business domains.

Key Accountabilities:

• Participates/acts as expert on SW documentation & comm process within the SDLC.Conducts elicitation sessions for business&technical teams to understand.
• Assists in the business process redesign & documentation as needed for new technology/enhancements. Translates high level bus. specs into functional IT specs and manages changes to specs throughout SDLC. Creates process flows and wire frames for UI's.
• Leverages business knowledge to negotiate agreements/commitments on requirements throughout project lifecycle. Facilitates communication bw business units to gain consensus on requirements and to inform IT on business activities.
• Ensures acceptance of technology/enhancements by coordinating/overseeing/conducting user acceptance testing. Creates test cases for UAT and executes them in Quality Center.

Qualifications

Knowledge / Qualifications / Skills / Experience:

• Possesses knowledge and experience leveraging both IT solutions and business process improvements.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal/written. Ability to work effectively at all levels.
• Ability to construct complex models - process, data, workflow, object oriented, use cases, functional  decomposition diagrams, etc using wire frames, other techniques.
• Bachelors' Degree in Computer Science, Info Systems, Business Admin, or other related field.  Or equivalent work experience.

Primary Location :USA-NY-White Plains-Starwood - Corporate

Schedule :Full-time

Shift :Day Job

Interested candidates should apply on the Starwood career site at:
www.starwoodhotels.jobs/apply/60100753