IT Business Analyst

Job Description:

We are looking to add an IT Business Analyst to join our Information Technology team in West Des Moines, IA. Offering a forward-thinking, innovative, and vibrant company culture, along with the opportunity to share your unique potential, there really is no place like Holmes!

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead medium to large, complex initiatives with minimal supervision through:
  • Partnering with business stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document requirements.
  • Translating business needs into clear, actionable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
  • Reviewing end-to-end process analysis, identifying gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
  • Facilitating requirements workshops, stakeholder meetings, and solution discussions.
  • Acting as a primary liaison between business, technology teams, and vendors.
  • Ensuring alignment of solutions to business strategy and objectives.
  • Supporting solution design by collaborating with architects and developers.
  • Driving traceability from requirements through delivery and testing.
  • Participating actively in testing strategy, test case definition, and validation of outcomes.
  • Identifying and proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies.
  • Ensuring clear and consistent communication across stakeholders at multiple levels.
  • Facilitating conflict resolution and stakeholder alignment in ambiguous situations.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in business administration, information technology, computer science, or related field.
• Experience: 4-6 years of progressively responsible experience with business systems analysis, including system development, system configuration, business process analysis, and project management.
• Skills & Licensing: Business Analyst certification (e.g. IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) a plus.
• Technical Competencies: Possesses strong business and technology knowledge to understand business needs, make informed decisions, and deliver effective technology solutions, including related processes and procedures. Demonstrates excellent problem-solving skills to efficiently identify issues, determine root causes, and propose and implement effective solutions or improvements.

Here’s a little bit about us:

In addition to being great at what you do, we place a high emphasis on building a best-in-class culture.  We do this through empowering employees to build trust through honest and caring actions, ensuring clear and constructive communication, establishing meaningful client relationships that support their unique potential, and contributing to the organization's success by effectively influencing and uplifting team members. 

Benefits:  In addition to core benefits like health, dental and vision, also enjoy benefits such as:

• Paid Parental Leave and supportive New Parent Benefits — We know being a working parent is hard, and we want to support our employees in this journey!
• Company paid continuing Education & Tuition Reimbursement — We support those who want to develop and grow.
• 401k Profit Sharing — Each year, Holmes Murphy makes a lump sum contribution to every full-time employee’s 401k. This means, even if you’re not in a position to set money aside for the future at any point in time, Holmes Murphy will do it on your behalf! We are forward-thinking and want to be sure your future is cared for.
• Generous time off practices in addition to paid holidays — Yes, we actually encourage employees to use their time off, and they do. After all, you can’t be at your best for our clients if you’re not at your best for yourself first.
• Supportive of community efforts with paid Volunteer time off and employee matching gifts to charities that are important to you — Through our Holmes Murphy Foundation, we offer several vehicles where you can make an impact and care for those around you.
• Inclusion & Belonging Programs — Holmes Murphy is committed to celebrating every employee’s unique potential. Through inclusion and belonging initiatives, titled Uniquely United, not only do we offer employees a paid Diversity Day time-off option, but we also have a Uniquely United Committee, Employee Resource Groups, and development programs to advance our culture of belonging. We encourage employees to engage in ways that are meaningful to them to enhance their overall experience! 
• Consistent merit increase and promotion opportunities — Employees are reviewed annually for merit increases and promotion opportunities because we believe growth is important — not only with your financial wellbeing, but also your career wellbeing.
• Discretionary bonus opportunity — Yes, there is an annual opportunity to make more money. Who doesn’t love that?!

Holmes Murphy & Associates is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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