Lead Business Analyst (business travel to Iraq)

This project, funded by the US Government, focuses on developing a Human Resources System for various Ministries in a Middle Eastern country. The initiative is critical to enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of human resource management across multiple departments.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of experience in business analysis
• Proven leadership skills 
• Experience with fixed-price projects
• Experience on midsize or large projects (10+ people)
• Strong negotiation, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Experience in conducting the requirements elicitation sessions, familiar with different requirements elicitation techniques
• Strong business requirements building and management skills
• Capability to choose the optimal requirements organization and modeling technique
• Ability to see the big picture, plan the work approach properly, and move forward with small steps
• Ability to work independently, organize proper stakeholder management, and own BA processes workflow
• Ability to adapt to project changes during the project flow
• Experience in process description, familiarity with BPMN notation and different process description tools
• Competency in Microsoft applications, including Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Upper-Intermediate level of English
• Willing and able to undertake business travel to Iraq for periods of 4–6 weeks per visit.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plan business analyst efforts on the complex project 
• Define business needs and business change drivers
• Manage customer expectations and translate needs into effective solutions
• Elicit requirements using different BA techniques (interviews, focus groups, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis, etc.)
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, and distinguish user requests from underlying needs
• Document, analyze, and prioritize detailed business requirements based on users and business needs
• Proactively identify improvements that would increase efficiency or productivity in work effort, processes, or application features
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with all stakeholders
• Plan and Coordinate BA team at the project
• Conduct BA team coaching and mentoring (subordinate RAs and BAs, QAs, etc.)
• Contribute to continuous improvement of business analysis practices, as well as other procedures
• Develop requirements and other project documentation templates
• Conduct requirements audit