BA Analyst

Title: BA Analyst (Mortgage experience is must to have)
Location: Chicago IL
Duration: Permanent
Salary: $90K all inclusive


Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:

• Perform mortgage/consumer lending requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation tasks as required based on customer needs.
• A Business Analyst will gain expertise of the NetOxygen software product and toolset, be able to elicit business requirements from the customer, and create written functional requirement specifications to ensure delivery of a sound and quality software product that meets individual client needs while maintaining product salability and architectural standards. Additionally, this position will provide product support to project management, development, quality assurance, sales, and production support teams.
• Travel to customer sites is also part of this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Experience of working in an Agile development environment
• Write user stories and epics.
• Effectively communicate Product functionality and business architecture.
• Good to have - Mortgage with LOS (Loan Origination System) LE, CD, , Refinance LOS (Loan, Home Equity, HMDA, Fee Tolerances etc.
• Work with project stakeholders to elicit business requirements and ensure the implementation complies with user and business specifications.
• Analyze and thoroughly document business needs of customer.
• Work with the development team to design, test, implement, and maintain updates within company databases and applications necessary to streamline/automate a business process.
• Act as the liaison among stakeholders to encourage innovation for process improvements and system enhancements that result in increased automation, productivity, satisfaction and data consistency.
• Ensure business requirements are complete and proper approvals are obtained.
• Work with onsite and offshore development teams during construction process to provide guidance and ensure business requirements and functional specifications are followed.
• Assist QA team during testing efforts to ensure business requirements are fulfilled.
• Provide training/mentoring to peers and clients as required
• Participate in production system roll out at customer site
• Help develop business/systems training materials, RFI/RFP responses, POC and presentations as requested
• Communicate with other Business Analysts to understand interdependencies of all projects.
• Constantly look at ways and means to bring more discipline and rigor to the Business Analysis function by adopting more structured methodologies and tools.
• Work with the Domain Consultants/Practice Heads to develop solutions/frameworks for industry pain-points and developing trends.
• Drive demystification, point of view on topical subjects through contribution and authoring of thought/white papers.

Role Demands

• Excellence in strategic and analytical problem solving
• Excellence in Business analysis to address customer problems, quick analytical thinking, and able to have focused energy in transforming the requirements into solutions.
• Outstanding leadership and communication skills
• Polished verbal and written communication style. Ability to confidently build a strong rapport with project teams and the customer teams. Good networking skills to work across different multi-cultural teams towards focused goal. Comfortable in interacting with and presenting to executives and senior business leaders

Personal Drive

• Entrepreneurial drive with a can-do attitude, a strong desire to learn and shape your own career path. Commitment to making a positive lasting client impact.

Self-Guided Attitude

• The ability to succeed in a professional environment where client and project direction is dynamic. Qualified candidates will understand how to produce results when working in challenging client environments and/or new business areas.

Experience and skill set required:

• MBA with specialization in IT & Finance/ Marketing desired
• Pre-MBA work-experience with exposure or industry experience in IT Services/ BFSI- is desirable.
• Excellent skills in MS Office Tools (Power Point, Word, Excel)
• Knowledge of Mortgage / Consumer / Commercial Lending practices. Practical working experience is a plus.

Prior development experience and ability to read and understand object oriented programming languages such asa VisualBasic, C#, vbscript, javascript is a plus.