Technical Business Analyst (contract)

KPMG is a leading professional services firm seeking a Technical Business Analyst contractor to serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and IT. The role involves translating business needs into technical specifications, managing the requirements lifecycle, and ensuring successful project delivery through effective communication and documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, translate and communicate business requirements back to development team, through BRDs, detailed process flows, diagrams, use cases, and user stories
• Elicit, compile, document, and manage clear and testable functional and technical requirements by being an active leader, using a variety of elicitation methods such as interviewing, workshops, business processes, and workflow review
• Responsible for highly effective verbal and written communication within the effort (project team, stakeholders, and sponsors), and with leadership, building trusted relationships through assignments
• Perform functional and technical requirements traceability throughout project lifecycle to validate that product meets the approved requirements; manage changing requirements and priorities; support the testing process through completion and promotion to production
• Responsible for maintaining skills within the profession that will allow for proactive assessment of effort needs and completing business analysis deliverables
• Understand, support, and contribute to the organization’s strategy and contribute ideas and feedback within the department

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years experience in related role
• Minimum of a high school diploma or GED required
• Experience in both Waterfall and Agile and creating deliverables that are specific to those methodologies (e.g. BRDs/ Features, Epics and User Stories with Acceptance Criteria)
• Understanding the Product Owner role and associated tasks
• Proficiency in process mapping techniques and methodologies
• Experience and understanding of process mapping techniques, such as swim lane diagrams, flowcharts, and value stream mapping
• Familiarity with BlueWorks Live and Aris is a plus
• Forward-thinking with a desire to incorporate GenAI tools into daily work
• Skills in prompt engineering being a plus
• Experience in working with ServiceNow modules and using it and/or Jira for documenting requirements
• Knowledge, Skills, Ability: Business Systems, Business Requirements, Agile Methodology, Waterfall methodology, Written Communication, Systems Development Life Cycle, SDLC, Business Analysis, Scrum (Software Development), Detail Oriented, User Story, Troubleshooting (Problem Solving), Functional Requirement, Elicitation, Technical Requirement Elicitation, JIRA, Functional Specification, Technical Requirement Specification, ServiceNow
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred