Senior Business Analyst

Seattle, WA, United States

At Moss Adams, we champion authenticity. For us, that means fostering a culture of talented people who care—about you, about our clients, and about our communities. Here, you’ll work towards our mission of empowering others to embrace opportunity, growing as a leader along the way. Our firm’s size, middle-market clients, customized career paths, and supportive culture make this a reality. Join a values-driven firm where you’ll have fun while solving complex and interesting business challenges.

Introduction to the team

The Senior Business Analyst brings strong analytical expertise to projects to elicit business needs from the customer in order to help determine solutions to complex business problems. They are responsible for the development and management of business and technical requirements. They will assist with product assessments, testing, training, and communication. The Senior Business Analyst is a primary within our IT Product Line Groups, and acts as a liaison between IT and various teams across the firm. Collaborating with the technical team(s), they will develop technical solutions for business needs, including engaging with automation and AI -based tools, Governance and controlling bodies, project management execution, and product lifecycle management.

Individuals who thrive at Moss Adams exhibit the following success skills – Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Emotional Intelligence, Executive Presence, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity, and Results Focus.

Responsibilities

Utilize strong analytical and product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into business and technical requirements

Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding

Serve as the conduit between the customer community (including internal and external customers), users, business teams, and technical teams to establish the business and technical vision; analyze and document tradeoffs between complexity, usability and performance needs

Assist with testing by owning the User Acceptance Testing process (UAT) and contributing to the testing phase of a project by supporting the Quality Assurance (QA) team for various testing activities

Assist with training and communication activities such as developing and delivering end user documentation, quick guides, training plans, training materials, and communication media; serve as a liaison between Corporate Communications, Learning and Development, and project teams

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience required; experience within IT organizations with exposure to the full system implementation life cycle preferred; experience in a professional services environment preferred

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis upon hire. Moss Adams will not consider candidates for this position who require sponsorship for employment visa status now or in the future (e.g., H-1B status)

Experience leading requirements identification and prioritization efforts for mid-large scale business or technology projects

Demonstrated ability to collect and interpret business data and assess for trends, patterns and correlations

Experience in system design, functional specification development, and test requirement documentation

Experience with developing training plans and conducting training

Proven ability to effectively manage time, prioritize work, multi-task across many assignments, and create deliverables with little direction

Proficiency in Microsoft Office (MS Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio); familiarity with OneNote and SharePoint required; familiarity with a requirement management system preferred

Strong verbal and written communication skills including the ability to articulate complex issues to others at all levels of the organization; the ability to interact professionally with a multi-disciplinary groups

Ability to travel as needed, approximately 5%

Moss Adams is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Moss Adams complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected].

Some local/state regulations require employers to disclose the pay range in job postings. While this is the typical range of pay for the position, actual pay may vary based on internal equity, knowledge, experience, skillset, and geographic location among other factors. It’s uncommon for an individual to be hired at the top end of the pay range. This position may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. For more information about our benefit offerings and other total rewards, visit our careers page.

Employee Status

Regular

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