Business Analyst
Job Summary
Business analysts in IT projects act as bridges between stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring solutions align with business goals. They are responsible for eliciting requirements, translating business needs into functional specifications, and managing stakeholder expectations. The role requires experience in requirements engineering, particularly within IT or software project environments.
Responsibilities
- Elicit and document business requirements
- Translate needs into functional specifications
- Support solution design and UAT testing
- Manage project change requests
- Active stakeholder expectation management
Required Skills
- Strong English communication
- Requirements engineering (Dynamics CRM)
- UML/BPMN modelling
- SQL/Excel proficiency
- SDLC (Agile/Waterfall) knowledge
Job Details
Responsibilities:
• Elicit and document business requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and analysis of existing specifications.
• Translate business needs into functional and non-functional specifications, user stories, or models like UML/BPMN for developers.
• Support solution design, testing (including UAT), and implementation by validating requirements against predefined scope.
• Manage changes to requirements throughout the project lifecycle, rigorously evaluating impacts on tender specifications before approval.
• Manage stakeholders actively to align expectations, specify requirements within the solution platform's capabilities, communicate progress, and prevent deviations from the tender-defined scope, minimizing scope creep.
Requirements:
• Must possess strong communication skills, proficient in written and spoken English.
• Must have experience in requirements engineering for Microsoft Dynamics CRM or similar.
• Must have more than 2 years of experience as a Business Analyst in IT/software projects, including requirement gathering and stakeholder management.
• Preferred: IIBA certifications (ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, or PMI-PBA).
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, IT or related field.
• Preferred: Advanced degree such as MBA or MS in business analytics.
• Preferred: Entry-level Project Management certification.
• Preferred: Working experience in Government of Singapore projects.
• Preferred: Experience with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau) and scripting (Python/R).
• Preferred: Proficiency in technical skills like SQL, Excel, BPMN/UML modelling, and SDLC methodologies (Agile/Waterfall).