MUST BE LOCAL TO DENVER/ ABLE TO COMMUTE TO OUR OFFICE (address below). The primary role of the Business Systems Analyst I is to ensure that business processes and supporting systems continue to meet end users' needs. This position is a key liaison between the technical IT staff that implements application-based solutions and the business staff that performs the process work. The Business Systems Analyst I must be able to straddle the IT and business domains and communicate (or broker communications) between all teams. This person is a hands-on worker who will drive the creation of process models (primarily conceptual/logical models) and work with others to provide the supporting process ecosystem and implementations (including screen interactions, dashboards, rule management and optimization algorithms). The Business Systems Analyst I deals with tactical, day-to-day aspects of discovering, validating, documenting and communicating business related knowledge through modeling, simulating, and analyzing current and future states. The Business Systems Analyst I ensures that changes to the process environment are carried out in a seamless fashion. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Serve as key liaison to other departments that have specific business functions. Collaborate with departments to identify, document and communicate business needs and provide IT solutions. Collaborate with other departments and IT to develop business cases associated with new project requests. Coordinate tactical-related business requests for IT development enhancements. Plan, elicit, capture, analyze and validate business, functional and technical requirements. Plan, facilitate and execute system / functional testing and UAT for projects and enhancements. Coordinate tactical-related business requests for IT development enhancements. Facilitate requirements elicitation sessions and walkthroughs with business and IT resources. Perform current state analysis of existing business systems, applications and functions. Produce timely and high quality requirements-related work products, including requirement specifications, process flows, mock-ups and wireframes. Answer questions and clarify requirements for projects and enhancements during the estimation process. Become deeply immersed and knowledgeable about core business functions, processes and workflows associated with assigned business areas and projects. Understand the relationships, dependencies and impact of neighboring business functions. Understand core systems, applications and technical platforms. Document, analyze and assess current business processes and underlying systems / applications. Evolve into a subject-matter expert who can easily liaise between IT and other departments. Performs other related duties as assigned#LI-AR 1 Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in Information Systems, Management Information System, Computer Science or related field 1-3 years business analyst experience, with some business systems analysis exp 3-5 years business analyst experience, with some business systems analysis exp