Business Analyst
FreshBooks is a company dedicated to supporting small business owners with technology solutions. As a Business Analyst, you will drive discussions with stakeholders to gather requirements, propose functional solutions, and manage projects to ensure successful delivery while balancing business needs with technical constraints.
Responsibilities
- Drive discussions with business stakeholders to understand their problems and requirements
- Work with other technical team members on proposing solutions that meet business needs and requirements
- Manage the expectations of stakeholders by communicating progress and timelines on projects
- Proactively work with business stakeholders to identify long-term opportunities and work with the enterprise architecture team to incorporate them into a roadmap
- Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, document, and prioritize business requirements
- Translate business needs into functional specifications for technical teams
- Evaluate existing business processes and identify opportunities for improvement, documenting both the current and future stages as process flow diagrams
- Design and implement process improvement initiatives to optimize efficiency and productivity
- Oversee testing activities including partnering with business team members to document test cases and carry out UAT activities
- Other duties as may be assigned
Skills
- Experience gathering and consolidating requirements from business stakeholders
- Proficient in the creation and presentation of requirements documentation
- Experience translating business requirements into working solutions
- Experience in building relationships, influencing and working closely with stakeholders to determine acceptable solutions
- Proven track record of managing projects and delivering on time
- Experience working directly with technical teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
- Prior project management experience
- Experience in agile methodologies, familiarity with Jira, Confluence
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform, or another major cloud provider such as AWS
- Working knowledge of documentation standards such as BPMN and UML
Benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
- Generous time off including a flexible vacation plan.
- A retirement savings program or pension plan matched to your local office.
- Stock options for every full-time employee.
- Parental leave and new parent support.
- Annual healthy living credit.
- Comprehensive medical and dental benefits.
- Fertility and gender-affirming benefits dependent on your region.
- Peer Recognition Program.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Headphone credit.
- Meaningful in-person gatherings to bring onsite and remote employees together.
- Home office credit to set up your home office.
- Comprehensive company onboarding.
- Career development through continuous coaching, training, and learning on the job.
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