Experis is currently seeking a Sr. Business Analyst for a long term (would prefer contract to hire)opportunity in Omaha, NE. Must be willing to be onsite in Omaha M-F during the duration of the contract. Our client needs assistance in developing a road map/best practices for the new BA Office.

Description:
6+ years of practical experience in business analysis and works independently in complex situations and tasks.
Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow.
Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.
Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
Translates business needs into functional and non-functional requirements for the IT organization, and manages changes to such requirements.
Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver artifacts as needed.
Translates high-level, complex business needs into functional and non-functional requirements and manages changes to such requirements.
Gathers information about the organizations work processes and information flows.
Performs additional job duties as required.

Requirements:
Understanding of industry standards (IIBA standards) and utilizing BRD documents
Use case development
SDLC Methodologies
User Interface
Traceability Matrix
UML Modeling
Understanding of System Design Documents
Risk Management/Analysis
Business Process Flow, Data Flow/Data Diagrams, Contact Diagrams