**Job Title: Business Analyst** **Location: Minneapolis, MN** Role Overview: As a Business Analyst, you will be the critical liaison between Business Stakeholders and IT, facilitating the analysis and delivery of system enhancements, projects, and products. You will translate business needs into precise, concise, actionable requirements while developing robust acceptance and validation criteria. The role will focus on Fixed and Variable Annuities, ensuring the delivery of solutions that meet business objectives and provide business readiness for project deployment. Job Description: This role involves end-to-end business analysis, from eliciting and documenting business and technical requirements to leading User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and supporting business readiness. You will assess and document business risks, create cases, develop communication plans, and facilitate gap analysis and JAR sessions. A key part of the role will be writing and maintaining clear user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, ensuring traceability between business and technical requirements. You will also oversee the development and execution of UAT and ensure the successful transition of projects into production. Key Responsibilities: 1. Requirement Gathering & Documentation: a. Elicit, analyze, and document detailed business and technical requirements through user stories and acceptance criteria. b. Facilitate requirements gathering sessions, ensuring all stakeholder inputs are captured and translated into actionable business requirements. c. Perform gap analysis, create process flows (As Is/To Be), and ensure traceability from business requirements to technical solutions. 2. User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & Validation: a. Develop user acceptance and validation test plans, ensuring thorough testing of solutions against business needs. b. Familiarity with Gherkin Syntax (Given, When, Then) ensures step organization and behavior-driven development for requirements. c. Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of UAT, tracking defects and validating resolutions. d. Ensure production validation, providing oversight for business readiness plans, including training and communication. 3. Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: a. Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and IT, facilitating the clear communication of business needs and project progress. b. Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring project scope and business impacts are well understood and communicated. c. Provide regular status updates and ensure issues are identified, tracked, and resolved promptly. 4. Business Readiness & Project Transition: a. Contribute to transition plans, ensuring the business is fully prepared for system changes, including training and SOP documentation. b. Oversee post-implementation support, including production validation and stakeholder communication. 5. Continuous Improvement & Self-Leadership: a. Proactively draft user stories ahead of refinement sessions and ensure readiness for sprints. b. Anticipate project needs and take ownership of delivering high-quality requirements with minimal oversight. Qualifications: -Experience: 6-7 years as a Business Analyst. - Strong analytical and project management skills. - In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry, with specific long-term care experience preferred. - Excellent process mapping and creation skills. - Self-starter who can work independently. - Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills. - Ability to work across delivery teams to coordinate delivery and implementation. - Experience working with external vendors. Preferred: - 8-10 years of Business Analyst experience. - Strong leadership ability, with experience coaching other analysts. - Six Sigma or Business Analyst training or certification (CBAP, BABOK) is a plus. - Experience with the Agile framework (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban). - Knowledge of Jira or Polarion (features, user stories, tasks, subtasks). If this is a role that interests you and you’d like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you! **About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of:** **Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells** _ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands –_ **_Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells_** _–_ creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2022 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 13th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent. ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. 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