Business Analyst

Lockton Affinity, located in Overland Park, KS, is searching for a Business Analyst to join our growing IT team.  At Lockton, information technology is seen as a major contributor to delivering exceptional business results. The Business Analyst position is a key contributor to enable our business vision.  Lockton desires Associates who want to be part of something bigger than themselves, who possess a positive attitude and who are tenacious about overcoming obstacles encountered.

You’re expected to challenge the status quo and help steer the team towards innovative solutions.  Our team is driven, passionate, creative, energetic, and fun.  We love to challenge each other and ask hard questions, then figure out the answer and solve the problem together.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES include the following.

• Ability to understand desired future state in context of current business environment.
• Defines incremental steps to achieve desired business results.
• Can create innovative approaches to problems, is comfortable challenging the status quo.
• Experienced with Agile approaches and can decompose complex problems into workable team assignments.
• Ability to learn new systems and concepts quickly, building a strong repertoire of business and technical knowledge.
• Ensure that project team has clear understanding of functional requirements and business expectations.
• Collaborate with creative team and ensure that user experience and visual design align with functional requirements.
• Work with QA to develop testing strategy, identify test cases and participate in regression testing.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on the ecommerce solution and platform both for client and for the project team.
• Create training materials for train-the-trainer and end-user training sessions.
• Interacts with project team and management to identify and document benefits, costs, and risks associated with solution alternatives.
• Works to ensure the technical / business design matches the detailed user requirements and system needs.
• Define a process for change management and proactively manage requirement changes.
• Proactively identify risks around requirements and communicate to team leads and PMs.
• Helps to ensure proper communication, process flow, data quality, reliability, integrity and security for automated systems as needed.
• Documents procedures, policies and guidelines to support daily operational processes as needed.

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The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by Associates within this classification.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted, as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of Associates assigned to this job. Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.

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