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Crowe LLP Senior Business Analyst in Cleveland, Ohio

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: At Crowe, you have the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions to today's complex business issues. Crowe's accounting, consulting, and technology personnel are widely recognized for their in-depth expertise and understanding of sophisticated process frameworks and enabling technologies, along with their commitment to delivering measurable results that help clients build business value. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a "Best Place to Work." We are 75 years strong and still growing. Come grow with us! Job Description: Crowe is seeking a talented and driven Senior Business Analyst in our Product Engineering practice. This individual will assume a hybrid role (product owner/business analyst) on a Scrum team that is responsible for assisting in the development and maintenance of the Insight product that is leveraged by the Audit practice to deliver Crowe's Audit services. Primary responsibilities include leading requirements elicitation, documentation, story creation, and refinement for the team. This individual should have a passion for continuous improvement, innovation, and a history of successful software delivery and leadership within an Agile Scrum team. Responsibilities: Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, from executive leadership to peers. Collaborate with Product Manager, stakeholders, and development teams to understand business goals and objectives. Ability to acquire a deep understanding of our products and systems, including their capabilities, features, and technical specifications. Perform analysis of large-scale epics for decomposition and work closely with Program Leadership and teams to ensure accurate scoping, feasibility assessment and effort estimation for epics and features. Conduct refinement sessions to decompose features into user stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria for the development team. Schedule, coordinate, and facilitate agile ceremonies and elicitation sessions with the Product Manager and stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and clarify requirements and/or issues. Lead backlog management and refinement activities assisting in prioritizing and sequencing work items based upon business value and technical complexity. Collaborate within the Scrum team and Program Leadership on progress, providing updates and identifying potential risks or issues that surface during development. Develop and conduct product presentations and/or demonstrations that effectively communicate the value, benefits, capabilities and features to various stakeholders and development team members. Partner with Development Lead to share Scrum Master responsibilities for the development team. Perform as a change agent on identified Agile process improvements for the development team. Perform change management activities in support of product releases. Collaborate with the QA Lead to ensure effective coordination and execution of User Acceptance Testing efforts. Collaborate across development teams to manage dependencies and ensure risks are proactively managed. Work with the development team to demonstrate work to the Product Manager and ensure it complies with the Definition of Done (DoD). Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including operations to promptly identify and prioritize issues reported in a production environment to ensure timely resolution and minimize impacts on users. Required Qualifications: 7+ years of BA and/or Product Owner experience Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills Strong understanding of work decomposition techniques Exceptional learning agility and the ability to adapt quickly Proficie

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