Senior Business Analyst 5

Top Skills & Years of Experience: • 8-11 years of experience as a Contract Analyst performing the procurement activities: • Development of Statements of Work (SOW) and review and validate with customers, vendors, and procurement staff. • Leading and providing updates and status on procurement related tasks to project managers, management and others as needed. • Ability to analyze business needs and solutions to determine deliverables to be included in SOW's or RFPs (e.g. Contract legal terms and conditions, disaster recovery) • Monitors, reviews, and validates IT contract and procurement documentations for the agency • Maintain the procurement tasks and maintain work status in Azure DevOps. Develop reports, dashboards and metrics for tracking status of procurement work items. • Experience in Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Requests for Change (RFCs), Invitations to Negotiate (ITNs), Proposals for Change (PFCs), Contract Change Notices (CCNs) • Prepare templates, standards documents to improve procurement processes • Thorough understanding of purchasing processes • Research, compiles, and analyzes data on new and existing contracts and provide recommendations for problem resolution. • Maintain the log of payment made on the vendor invoices. • Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within information technology, specifically, system development lifecycle (SDLC) • Experience in dealing with customer, vendors, conflict analysis and resolution