Business Analyst-Contractor

Position Summary:
This role serves as the critical bridge between business stakeholders and IT, responsible for translating high-level business needs into actionable, detailed technical and functional specifications. The candidate will drive the requirement lifecycle—from elicitation and process mapping to creating user stories and system flow diagrams—while actively monitoring project progress to ensure successful delivery of business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, translate, and communicate business requirements back to development team, through BRDs, detailed process flows, diagrams, use cases, and user stories
• Elicit, compile, document, and manage clear and testable functional and technical requirements by being an active leader, using a variety of elicitation methods such as interviewing, workshops, business processes, and workflow review
• Accountable for highly effective verbal and written communication within the effort (project team, stakeholders, and sponsors), and with leadership, building trusted relationships through assignments
• Perform functional and technical requirements traceability throughout project lifecycle to validate that product meets the approved requirements; manage changing requirements and priorities and support the testing process through completion and promotion to production
• Maintain skills within the profession that will allow for proactive assessment of effort needs and completing business analysis deliverables
• Understand, support, and contribute to the organization’s strategy and contribute ideas and feedback within the department
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG’s respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications:

• Minimum three years of recent experience in related role
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is preferred; minimum of a high school diploma or GED is required
• Experience in both Waterfall and Agile and creating deliverables that are specific to those methodologies (for example, BRDs/ Features, • Epics and User Stories with Acceptance Criteria); solid understanding the Product Owner role and associated tasks
• Proficiency in process mapping techniques and methodologies; experience and understanding of process mapping techniques, such as swim lane diagrams, flowcharts, and value stream mapping. Familiarity with BlueWorks Live and Aris is a plus.
• Forward-thinking with a desire to incorporate GenAI tools into daily work, with skills in prompt engineering being a plus
• Experience in working with ServiceNow modules and using it and/or Jira for documenting requirements is desired

Knowledge, Skills, Ability:

• Business Systems, Business Requirements, Agile Methodology, Waterfall methodology, Written Communication, Systems Development Life Cycle, SDLC, Business Analysis, Scrum (Software Development), Detail Oriented, User Story, Troubleshooting (Problem Solving), Functional Requirement, Elicitation, Technical Requirement Elicitation, JIRA, Functional Specification, Technical Requirement Specification, ServiceNow

KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) seeks a contractor in the United States to provide service to KPMG through one of our contracted employer/agency service providers. All applicants for any KPMG role are expected to act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold the firm’s respectful and courteous work environment. All applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Nothing herein shall be deemed to create an employer-employee relationship between contractor and KPMG, nor shall contractor be considered a representative or agent of KPMG.

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KPMG LLP, its subsidiaries, and its agency service providers (including, but not limited to, MBO Partners Inc., Magnit LLC, and TalentBurst Inc.) are equal opportunity employers/contractors. All qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex/gender, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, physical or mental handicap unrelated to ability, pregnancy, veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Material job duties for this position are listed above. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, and safeguard business operations and company reputation. Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pay Rate Range

60 - 65 USD hourly