Business Systems Analyst IT

Business Systems Analyst

Business Systems Analyst

Who are we? Versant Health is one of the nation's leading administrators of managed vision care, serving over 35 million of our clients' members across the United States. Our purpose is to make healthy vision a reality for everyone by improving access to care and education in the communities we serve. Fueled by our mission to improve members' lives with easy-to-use vision solutions rooted in choice value, and care, we believe that everyone has the power to become anything they set their sights on.

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Versant Health : Making Healthy Vision a Reality for Everyone

What are we looking for? The Business Systems Analyst is responsible for eliciting, documenting and managing functional requirements for portfolio projects. They will act as the primary liaison between business users and the IT project teams to manage user expectations, project scope and changes to requirements. The BSA will use their understanding of business operations, functions, IT services and capabilities, combined with a solid understanding and connection to the business to ensure that internal and external customers receive the expected business value using tools, processes and quantifiable measures. This role will report to the Director, Planning & Program Delivery.

Where you will have an impact

• Development of functional requirements and design documentation during project discovery and/or execution
• Act as a primary SME liaison between business users and IT project teams. Work closely with Project Manager, architects, developers, Test team, business users and applicable outside entities (vendors and others).
• Manage user expectations and requirements scope requirements elicitation and definition fit/gap analysis of functional requirements
• Facilitate functional requirements walkthroughs and respond to ambiguities functional documentation design (use cases, functional specifications, reports, screen prototypes), develop user guides, reference manuals, and training artifacts as appropriate
• Actively participate in change management activities
• Work with Project / Functional Manager to ensure compliance to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Provide estimates for BSA work efforts on new projects and on-going forecasting
• Perform other duties as assigned or required

What’s necessary to do the job?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years business systems analysis experience or comparable business experience
• Minimum 2 years of analytical experience
• 3 years of experience documenting business processes, including creating flow cha