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Location: Vancouver, Washington Type: Contract Job #8815 Overview: ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Business Analyst 3 will provide business analysis support and guide business stakeholders and facilitate the gathering and analysis of information using standard tools and approaches to help clarify business operations and functions, perform gap analyses, document and map current and future states, identify solution alternatives, evaluate those alternatives, and define processes.
In addition, this role concentrates on collecting and analyzing data, analyzing workflows, and developing process analysis and decision-support information and documents. This Business Analyst will also assist the Application Services Manager and Supervisors in overall organizational analysis, strategy, and development. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA. Pay range: $47.66 - $68.09 Benefits: Paid holidays: 11 PTO: Starting at 10 days Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date) EAP: Employee Assistance Program Benefit options available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, Hospital Indemnity, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%) Other benefits include the following: Calm App, LifeBalance Discount Program Responsibilities: Facilitate large teams in problem solving and improvement opportunities using industry methodologies (i.e.
Agile, Scrum, Kanban, GE Workout or like tools/models). Perform organizational maturity analysis, assess gaps, and draft maturity roadmaps based on management goals and objectives (examples; ITIL, P3M3, CMMI). Provide analysis and support in the development / draft and recommendation of tools for organizational alignment, strategic content, alignment of capabilities and work, and a roadmap for success.
Research background and interview end-users, stakeholders and other interested internal parties (customers) to gather and understand customer / end-user requirements, which may include software solutions and/or business process, procedure or workflow development; present solution recommendations for management, executive, stakeholder consideration and approval. Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), other analysts, specialists and teams to perform root cause analysis and lessons learned, as part of identifying opportunities to apply business or process improvement strategies.
Support the structure for, facilitate the planning of, and provide assistance with development / draft, recommendation and implementation of management approved initiatives, studies, analyses, and projects supporting business and process analysis and continuous improvement efforts. Evaluate and assess business process change impacts and recommend appropriate change mitigation activities. Plan, facilitate and conduct working sessions to analyze and document/map current state processes and value streams, and future state processes and value streams.
Evaluate and assess business process change impacts and recommend appropriate change mitigation activities. Perform all analytical tasks related to a project, including requirements definition, validation, management and supporting documentation (i.e. process flows, user stories, use cases) and related testing; assist management with implementation activities that contribute to system, process, and/or business improvements.
Provide background information, technical input, options and recommendations that facilitate decision-making and that will enable key requirements of improvement projects, project milestones and/or implemented solutions to be met. As requested, perform appropriate testing of recommended and/or management-approved solutions, which may include creating / drafting and recommending n