**Jr. Associate Business Analyst**
**Associate I - Business Analysis
**Who we are**:
Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology. We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do. We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.
UST is a mission-driven group of over 39,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in over 30+ countries. Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.
With us, you'll create a boundless impact that transforms your career—and the lives of people across the world.
**You Are**:
UST is searching for a Jr. Associate Business Analyst who will analyze the business needs of a client or project and perform Business Analysis activities under constant supervision.
**The Opportunity**:
- Work with leads/Seniors in the team to understand the business objective
- Assist Leads in creating software requirements artifacts and deliverables
- Work with leads/seniors to identify solutions options and validate them in a systematic manner
- Planning stakeholder engagement
- Effective approval process
- Creation of usage of Business Analysis information
- Components required to prepare for and conduct elicitation
- Validating information with stakeholders and communicating of information
- Components involved in collaboration - both internal and external
- Maintenance of requirements and their traceability
- Requirements and design prioritization
- Evaluation of change impact
- Mitigation of negative consequences while moving to the desired future state
- Assist the Leads in eliciting requirements using interviews document analysis requirements workshops and other proven techniques
- Follow effective requirements practices such as change control process defined by senior BAs
- Learn about developing process flow diagrams use case current/future state diagrams functional and technical requirements
- Follow processes established by the Lead BA/Project stakeholders as required by the engagement and ensure adherence by the team
- Assist in the Adoption of recommended tools templates and processes to help with effective decision-making and approval processes
- Assist in Documentation of the process plus project artifacts Assist in Management and clear communication about project artifacts to the various stakeholder groups
This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.
**What you need**:
- Good analytical organizational and problem-solving skills
- Good oral/written communication skills
- Be able to think of customer
- Should be result-oriented and a team player
- Business Acumen - Ability to quickly learn the area of business under focus
- Have the basic skills to understand and use the recommended BA tool/technology and process
- General awareness of various BA knowledge areas (recommended by IIBA or any other professional organization for Business Analysis).
- Have a basic knowledge of and can follow instructions for common techniques
- Understand the importance of planning stakeholder engagement
- Understand the importance of having an effective approval process to manage requirements and designs
- Have an awareness of the need to develop a way in which people can efficiently access and use business analysis information
- Understand the importance of continually monitoring assessing and improving business analysis performance
- Have an understanding of the components involved in preparing for elicitation activities and the importance of elicitation with support from senior Bas/PM.
- Understand the importance of validating information with stakeholders and communicating it to them
- Understand the components involved in managing stakeholder collaboration.
- Understand the need to ensure that requirements and designs align with one another through traceability
- Understand the importance of maintaining requirements and designs
- Understand the importance of prioritizing requirements/designs
- Understanding of business problems constraints dependencies
- Good written and verbal communication in and out of the client specific to the engagement
- Be able to pick from a given set of tools templates and/or processes for aligning requirements and design with required assistance from the seniors
- Be able to at least use one of the prominently used and recommended requirements engineering tools/templates in the industry with mínimal assistance Be able to work with the seniors in the team to assist with solution evaluation and recommendation of appropriate solution options to business problems
**What we believe**:
We're proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST since the beginning. Since day one