The Business Analyst is expected to perform atcapable level in the following:

• Business Needs Identification–Candidates can drive an assessment of business need and areas for improvement. Candidates proactively seek opportunities to enhance and improve in line with strategic goals, proposing potential solutions through research.
• Business Analysis Planning -Candidates are capableincharacterizing a solutionor initiative’scomplexity, risks, known assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.  Candidates are proficient in prioritization and recommending appropriate approaches. Candidates are capable of planning, sequencing, and coordinating activities to meet work and deadlines.
• Customer Analysis & Change -Candidates effectivelyidentifycustomers and maintainrelationships according to individual customer needs and levels of influence. Candidates can compile communication and transition plans for projects and team members.
• Requirements Analysis and Design Definition–Candidates can coordinate/develop requirement plans including user story sessions, approvals, RAID and scope impacts. Candidates are skilled in traceability, testing and validation.  Candidates can collaborate with business colleagues to identify functional and technical requirements. Candidates partner the architecture team to ensure the technical solution will deliver the agreed business benefits. 
• Case and Benefits Management –Candidates can coordinate/supportcase definitionand captureinvestment business justification including value and benefits realization plans. 
• Solution Evaluation–Candidates assess solution proposals and articulate supporting arguments for a recommended solution. Candidates work multi-functionally with other IT roles to develop/maintain business relationships, support business process change and act as point of contact for application development. Candidates work with business colleagues to identify business requirements and effectively communicate the impact, cost, and benefits of new or changed solutions. Candidates facilitate user acceptance testing. Candidates support process owners to identify and devise solutions that optimize business process performance, capability, and competitiveness.
• IT Delivery -Candidates collaborate with ITarchitecture,delivery,and support/operationsto ensure clear understanding ofallrequirements and effective testing.sothat the solutions delivered to the business are efficient and effective, meeting the customerexperienceexpectations.