As a consultant you have many project and client related responsibilities. As a business analyst, responsibilities include but are not limited to the following - Collecting, understanding, and transmitting the business requirements for the project, and translating these into functional specifications and detailed test plans . Partnering with clients to gather all requirements to formulate business specifications and translating those into application functionality, deciding when to advocate and when to compromise to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution. Documenting workflows and results of business analysis and obtaining sign-off from client on specifications. Assisting the technical team in translating application functionality into application architecture and the production of a System Functionality document. Communicating the business directives, goals, and needs to the technical team and serving as client interface from IST managing user expectations and client satisfaction. Designing and executing test plans to ensure that business requirements and functional specifications are tested and fulfilled. Understanding the long-term business objectives and suggesting technical strategies to meet those objectives; introducing innovation to business processes through technology . Assisting client in developing content or other materials; recommending enhancements and identifying new business requirements. Personal qualities: resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and self-confidence, strong analytical skills, solid business judgment, creativity, and the ability to communicate effectively with executive management. Applies knowledge of system capacity to determine feasibility of projects. Maintains current knowledge of new hardware and software and recommends upgrading to maintain efficient operation. Schedules and assigns work to programmers. Performs analysis of department production and redesigns workflow if appropriate. Liaise with a broad range of individuals both within and outside of the organization, including working extensively with project teams, clients and stakeholders to gather and confirm project requirements. Needs Demonstrated Experience in - 3+ years of project implementation experience as a consultant. Application of structured implementation methodology. Defining business requirements and completing gap analysis. Collecting business requirements and translating these into functional specifications. Skills Required - Strong client facing skills. Ability to communicate technical issues to business people, and business issues to technical people. Ability to juggle multiple tasks. Sound understanding of best practice business processes. - A good understanding of the capabilities of relevant technologies. Hands on development and implementation experience a plus. Must have a solid functional understanding of all applications. Ability to Lead and Manage a team of Junior business analyst. Mentoring for junior staff. Business Systems Analysis - Business Process and procedure analysis. Excellent organizational and communication skills - written and oral. Strong problem-solving and documentation skills, and the ability to deal with a wide variety of projects & Clients. Ability to conduct workshops and scope projects Work and progress - work performed over time, ability to meet deadlines. Responsiveness to support calls ability to manage support and project workloads. Communication progress on tasks, risks and ideas