Flexible Work Arrangement: Hybrid - Audubon, PA
Job Summary
The Business Analyst (BA) supports Implementation Leads in coordinating activities related to FERC Order compliance. The BA leads the activities to ensure the regulatory requirements are accurately identified, clearly traced back to the source order, and consistently aligned with software and business requirements throughout the project lifecycle. The BA is also responsible for maintaining traceability and demonstrating compliance post-implementation.
In addition, the BA documents necessary processes and collaborates with divisional teams to support compliance efforts. The role may involve reviewing, updating, or developing system mapping diagrams to clarify how system changes are impacted. Business Analysts also actively participate in monthly BA team meetings to share knowledge and stay aligned with best practices.
In summary, a Business Analyst is responsible for understanding business needs related to FERC Order implementation, proposing data-driven solutions, facilitating communication, and ensuring that projects deliver value to the business. Their role is both strategic and tactical, requiring a mix of technical, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
Essential Functions:
- Assisting in implementation lead activities, including tracking project progress, timelines, and risks. Supporting business case development for new implementations or initiatives.
- Analysis of high-impacted business project to define objectives, scope, and deliverables in support of the project team.
- Collaborating with stakeholders (business users, product owners, managers) to identify and define business needs and objectives.
- Eliciting, documenting, and validating business requirements.
- Analyzing current business processes and identifying areas for improvement.
- Creating process models, workflow diagrams, and other visual representations of business processes.
- Documenting business requirements, use cases, user stories, and functional specifications related to FERC Order implementations.
- Serving as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders and technical teams. Communicating requirements clearly to development teams and ensuring alignment on project objectives.
- Understand the impact of business requirements for related NERC, FERC, Operating Agreement, and other compliance entities for the divisions that are supported. Documenting the requirements matrix to show adherence.
- Identify implementation performance metrics and provide data-driven insights to optimize processes. Analyzing performance metrics and user feedback to recommend process improvements or system enhancements.
- Provide templates of re