Location: Vancouver, Washington
* Type: Contract
* Job #8595
Overview:
ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Business Analyst 3 will lead process improvement initiatives by facilitating workshops, conducting root cause analysis, and documenting current and future state processes to drive organizational efficiency. The role gathers and translates stakeholder requirements through interviews and working sessions, producing use cases, process models, and detailed documentation to support solution delivery. The analyst partners with cross-functional teams to develop recommendations, support implementation, testing, and change management activities, and ensure alignment on business needs. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience in business analysis, process improvement, and large-scale organizational change, along with strong requirements elicitation and facilitation skills. Proficiency in Visio, MS Project, Access, and SharePoint, and experience with project and change management methodologi
es are required. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA.
Pay Rate: $41.9 - $59.87
Benefits:
* Paid holidays: 11
* PTO: Starting at 10 days
* Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)
* EAP: Employee Assistance Program
* Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, Hospital Indemnity, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%)
* Other benefits include the following: Calm App, LifeBalance Discount Program
Responsibilities:
* Facilitate large teams in problem solving and identifying improvement opportunities using industry methodologies (i.e. Kanban, GE Workout or like tools/models).
* Perform organizational maturity analysis, assess gaps, and draft maturity roadmaps based on management goals and objectives.
* Provide analysis and support in the development / draft and recommendation of tools for organizational alignment, strategic content, alignment of capabilities and work, and a roadmap for success.
* Conduct background research and interview end-users, stakeholders and other interested internal parties (customers) to gather and understand customer / end-user requirements, which may include software solutions and/or business process, procedure or workflow development; present solution recommendations for management, executive, stakeholder consideration and approval.
* Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), other analysts, specialists and teams to perform root cause analysis and lessons learned, as part of identifying opportunities to apply business or process improvement strategies.
* Support the structure for, facilitate the planning of, and provide assistance with the development / draft, recommendation and implementation of management approved initiatives, studies, analyses, and projects supporting business and process analysis and continuous improvement efforts.
* Plan, facilitate and conduct working sessions to analyze and document/map current state processes and value streams, and future state processes and value streams.
* Facilitate decision making to verify that key requirements of the future state are vetted and agreed to across the Transmission Engineering and Technical Services /Transmission Value Chain.
* Review and assess business process change impacts and recommend appropriate change mitigation activities.
* Perform all analytical tasks related to a project, including requirements definition, validation, management and supporting documentation (i.e. process flows, user stories, use
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