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BUSINESS ANALYST

Description

DP Professionals specializes in placing highly trained IT professionals for contract employment and direct placement in industries such as banking, healthcare, insurance, utilities, manufacturing, as well as government and non-profit organizations. DP Professionals is headquartered in Columbia, SC with over 100 information technology employees serving the South Carolina market. DP Professionals also serves major metropolitan and surrounding areas such as Charleston, Greenville, Florence, Spartanburg and Charlotte, NC. DP Professionals has been certified as a woman-owned business by the South Carolina Governor's Office and by the National Women Business Owners Corporation.
 
We are looking for a Business Analyst with data analysis experience to fill a one year contract in Columbia, SC.
 
Job responsibilities:
  • Interview customers to identify system needs
  • Document user needs identify systems impacted by necessary changes
  • Perform usability studies to recommend user interface and reporting changes
  • Monitor and interpret government mandates to identify additional process or system functionality or changes necessary to existing functionality
  • Actively resolve day-to-day technology needs of the business unit with a focus on the analysis of processes – dissecting problems and suggesting solutions, including complex systems process analysis, design, and simulation
  • Leverage knowledge of IS solutions and business support improvements as well as industry requirements to identify, propose, and influence customer business solutions
  • Identify marketing opportunities for potential customers and present systems and services products as solutions
  • Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external customer management, testers, and users as well as other IS staff and management
  • Facilitate communication between business units and IS to negotiate agreements and commitments
  • Assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology
  • Participate in continuous review and update to ensure that processes meet changing business unit conditions.

Requirements

Required skills:

  • Business Analysis (3 years)
  • Data Analysis (2 years)
  • Presentation skills (2 years)
  • Requirements Gathering (2 years)
  • IT work experience (5 years)
  • Excellent written & verbal communication skills
  • Professionalism
  • US Citizenship

Desired skills:

  • Data SQL (2 years)
  • QMF (2 years)
  • Microsoft Access (2 years)
  • Usability Studies (2 years)
  • Mainframe software and database (2 years)
  • Medicare Advantage (2 years)
  • Relationship development
  • Communicate system and process concepts

 

No third party candidates will be considered.

DP Professionals is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and job applications. DP Professionals prohibits discrimination in the terms or conditions of employment at DP Professionals because of age, race, color, disability, sex, religion, creed, national origin, or any other classification protected by law.

Job Type

1 year contract

Job Location

Columbia, SC

We specialize in recruiting highly-qualified information technology professionals for contract employment and direct placement.