Job Description

Ranked one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s “Best Workplaces” and “Fastest Growing Mid-Size Companies” Affirma is expanding and looking to hire talented individuals. We are seeking a Business Analyst to join our growing Data & Analytics team. This individual will support Affirma’s mission to provide exception value to our clients by planning, executing, and deploying data management solutions.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience working in Agile environments, analyzing complex issues, and distilling concepts to clients.
• The ability to delicately identify risks and drive action to mitigate and resolve issues.
• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to handle a vast array of information.
• A passion for serving as a liaison between both business and technical teams to drive effective, timely solutions that fulfill both strategic and operational needs

What You’ll Do:

• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to lead meetings and presentations
• Have experience creating process diagrams and workflow documentation
• Develop and maintain business, functional and technical specification requirements documents
• Create and maintain user stories
• Analyze data to determine modifications needed to procedures, processes and practices
• Have experience delivering functional requirements for UI design and reporting
• Possess analytical skills to consider data and information in decision-making
• Be comfortable working with a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders, across different departments and functions (including Finance, IT, HR, Operations, etc.)
• Possess an ambitious, hands on attitude, a creative spirit, and a strong sense of ownership

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a Business Analyst or relevant product team role
• Actively run overall business analysis efforts according to the overall project plan.
• Drive requirements gathering sessions, prepare and deliver client presentations and work products/prototypes.
• Facilitate the development of standard methodology and future state workflows while identifying interpersonal and technical gaps that need to be filled.
• Lead business process current state discovery sessions and effectively gather current state workflows.
• Define and execute workflow-based end-user test scenarios.
• Lead client status and executive review meetings as needed.

Affirma is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not make employment decisions or otherwise discriminates based on race, creed, color, national origin, sex, military status, sexual orientation, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by law.