Business Analyst (Tax experience)

About the Role:

Virginia Tax seeks an eForms/WebUpload Business System Analyst to support business process design and system delivery, serving as a liaison among development, business, and testing teams to define top‑level software and system requirements.

Scope of Work:

• Using strong communications skills, interviews with business users/clients to determine business and technology requirements
• Prepares the General System Design documents which contain medium-to-high complex business rules and specifications required to make the system function in accordance with business requirements
• Interfaces with applications development, business staff and testing teams to define the highest level of software and system requirements for the most complex changes, based on business needs.
• Coordinates and leads process reviews between business users/clients, applications development and testing staff to ensure full understanding of business requirements and proposed general designs
• Participate as a team member and independently analyze and document solutions to complex business problems, completing assignments accurately and within allotted timeframes
• Understands prioritization of work based on multiple and conflicting business needs
• Collects, interprets, and presents data using SQL, for data gathering, analysis and research purposes
• Ensures General System Designs are properly stored using version controls such as Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Provide effort estimates for assigned applications for Legislative reasons or on request
• Performs knowledge transfer sessions to train other functional analysts in the team on assigned tasks
• Possesses a detailed understanding of the processes that support the software development lifecycle
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects/tasks of varying complexities, meeting deadlines while sometimes working under pressure
• Accountable for the delivery of all work tasks identified in the project plan
• Utilize and adhere to agile, waterfall and other Department work management practices and principles to manage assigned projects

Skill Matrix:

• prior Business Analyst Experience Required 3 Years
• Excellent Problem Solving skills Required 3 Years
• Develop Functional documentation, best practices, and troubleshooting guides for business solutions. Required 3 Years
• Proficient in use of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint Required 3 Years
• Prior Tax experience Highly desired 3 Years