Product Analyst

Immediate need for a talented Product Analyst. This is a 12+months contract to Hire opportunity with long-term potential and is located in McLean, VA (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
 
Job ID:24-46727
 
Pay Range: $50 - $55/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the Product Owner to write user stories and edit acceptance criteria, making sure each story aligns to the feature objective.
• Proactively bring ideas to the table to increase value to our customers, recognizing roadblocks early, and presenting ideas and options to key partners.
• Troubleshoot product questions and technical challenges.
• Demo solution options, existing functionality, and new functionality in various business settings.
• Understand and proactively utilize agile practices.
• Use applications including Jira, Teams, Confluence, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Client, Icertis, Salesforce.
• Quickly responds and provides support to stakeholders for production issues and questions.
• Completes administrative updates and changes in production.
• Supports production releases by completing necessary steps part of the implementation plan and completes validations.
• Supports user acceptance testing (UAT), development, and deployment support (including conducting manual testing, providing functional configuration, and attending after hours deployments).
• Ability to create concise material explaining complex topics to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Responsible for acting as the primary interface between technology infrastructure and specific business functional areas.
• Identify business unit requirements, create project, and process specifications, coordinate with application, product, and project teams to ensure that projects are on schedule and within budget.
• Qualified candidate will possess strong analytical skills and the ability to handle multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Build and grow relationships with internal business partners and offer creative and innovative solutions to a variety of requests and issues.
• Application Deployment: 4x per year (4 hrs. each)
• Template updates: ~2x per week (1 hr. each)
• Support for infrastructure changes: 4x per year (2 hrs. each).

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Key Skills:Product Analyst, User stories, Jira, Gherkin, CMS .
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 3-5+ years of work experience.
• 3+ years of related experience in change management and/or business operations.
• Knowledge and experience in the primary or secondary lending markets.
• In depth understanding of *** system functionality highly desirable.
• Agile product delivery experience, including requirements gathering, writing user stories, and using Jira technology.
• Intermediate to advanced SQL experience.
• In depth understanding of Microsoft Excel – Formatting, formulas, and macros.
• A technical background (computer science degree/ certifications/ technical work experience) is highly desirable.
• Understanding of end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience with access, SOX compliance requirements, audit, and deal flow processes are a plus, along with contracting processes and overall experience with *** business also a plus.
• Exceptional interpersonal, technical, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and flexibility to manage multiple requests and tasks against tight timelines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, technical awareness, and leadership abilities.
• Passion for driving value to customers.
• Intellectual agility and interpersonal flexibility.
• Proven problem solving, analytical skills.
• Ability to develop strong partnerships and working relationships.
• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others.
• Demonstrated ability to interact with both business and technical personnel to solve business challenges.

Our client is a leading Banking and financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
 
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