Business Analyst III

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Are you ready to be at the heart of transformation? Step into a role where your ability to take your project management expertise and creative problem-solving to shape the future of business operations. As a Business Analyst III, you’ll partner with experts across the organization to uncover hidden processes, drive clarity through operations system thinking, and build a foundation of trusted knowledge that powers onboarding, training, and operational excellence.  

This role will partner with experts to uncover undocumented processes, partner with instructional designers and trainers to apply systems thinking for clarity and context, and curate a centralized repository of trusted knowledge assets. This foundation powers onboarding, training, and operational readiness, and ensuring continuity. 

The Business Analyst III works to proactively and creatively solve for business needs through broad cross-functional collaboration. Responsible for eliciting, documenting, and defining business requirements, contributing to process development, and articulating the importance of the work within the broader value stream for moderately complex projects and/or initiatives with visible impact to the business and / or systems. This role leverages experience in influencing business decisions to deliver key insights and optimize solutions that have a visible impact to the business. 

What you will do: 

• Translate ambiguous business needs into solid business context and functional requirements for small to large projects with moderate complexity. 

• Effectively elicit information to create concise, organized Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD) using standard, industry recognized tools and best practices. Manage requirements across the lifecycle of a project to ensure end user satisfaction, business stakeholder buy-in, and scope integrity.  

• Identify opportunities and contribute recommendations based on analysis of requirements and future impacts.  

• Partner with SMEs to extract undocumented knowledge (e.g. structured interview and working sessions) as needed to ensure successful implementation and ongoing business and / or systems support when <