Business Analyst
The Judge Group Inc.

Location: Boston, MA
Salary: Negotiable
Description:
Role: Business Analyst

Location: Boston, MA 02108 (Onsite 4 business days in a month)

Duration: 12+ Months

Required Skills:

Change Management, Business Analysis, GAAP Reporting

Specific Duties

• Participate in the development of a readiness engagement plan that details the tasks necessary to assure successful preparation of agencies and end-users to adopt the new solution; plan includes schedule of engaging with agencies, identify resources and barriers or areas of support.

• Assist in identifying a team of agency champions who will work with the Readiness Team to prepare their organizations for change. This includes providing support in security provisioning steps and other necessary tasks.

• Create and administer change assessments to gauge agency impacts and readiness. Utilize the assessment results to inform updates for the project plan and rollout and deployment strategy.

• Responsible for facilitating change network meetings, including educational sessions., Track attendance and engagement during these sessions and provide coaching to champions as needed on change management topics.

• Apply a structured approach to complete change readiness interviews. These interviews will help assess the readiness of individuals and teams for the upcoming changes.

• Map existing processes to new processes, evaluate the impact of the changes on each agency, and collaborate with BEST functional teams, System Integrator (SI), and product vendors to gain a comprehensive understanding of the new or changing business processes. Coordinate and lead multiple working sessions with agency stakeholders to transition existing processes to the new enterprise-wide business processes.

• Create agency-specific readiness plans that include various aspects such as communications dissemination, organizational and operational readiness, technical readiness, and user security provisioning and training.

• Provide regular, timely status reports regarding current challenges, foreseeable problems, anticipated issues, or potential risks and offer alternatives, possible solutions or mitigation plans.

• Develop and maintain effective relationships with program team members, agency employees, and stakeholders.

• Partner with BEST Technical Workstream to manage and update a list of technical and operational readiness-related tasks that agencies must be complete prior to go-live including such items as interfaces to and from the new solution, data warehouse queries or extracts, and reports that the agency will need to run from the online system.

• Understand the desktop system requirement for the new solution to perform optimally.

• Work with agency champions to provide post-implementation support, identify issues, and mitigate risks.

Required Skills

• Understanding and experience with the basics of business process mapping.

• Experience using Visio to create as-is process maps based on outputs from interviews or working sessions and overlay as-is process on new to-be process.

• Experience working with clients to assess impacts and identify changes needed to move from current "as-is" process to new "to-be" process.

• Capable of building trusted relationships with front-line leaders and employees at all levels.

• Good business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges.

• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.

• Excellent business interview skills with the ability to actively listen, analyze and synthesize information.

• Well-developed presentation, communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills.

• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others.

• Exceptional ability to excel in a fast-paced environment, consistently meeting deadlines while effectively resolving conflicts. Demonstrated experience in using computer-based tools including Visio, MSWord, Excel, Power Point and Outlook.

• Extensive travel to different state agencies, within the ABC, may be required.

• The successful candidate will be an individual who has an energetic, can-do approach to work, who tracks and follows up on tasks independently, who seeks out additional work, and who recommends ways to improve upon current activities.

Preferred Skills

Basic understanding of the following functions particularly in large public sector organizations:

• Sophisticated Chart of Accounts to support budget controls and reporting across multiple units or organizations
• GAAP reporting
• Federal Grants Management
• Project Management
• Asset and Inventory Tracking and Management
• Procurement and Contracting
• Billing and Accounts Receivable
• Data Reporting and Analytics.

Minimum Entrance Requirements

Bachelor's degree in related field with 3 - 5 years' experience with change management coordination in a large organization.

Contact: hkhan01@judge.com

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com

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