Job Description

Job DetailsJob Location: Allied Benefit Systems - CHICAGO, IL 60606Position Type: Full TimeSalary Range: $70,000.00 - $75,000.00 SalaryJob Category: Medical Management POSITION SUMMARY
The Business Analyst will play a critical role in supporting project delivery by ensuring all business, functional, and testing requirements are clearly defined, documented, and validated. This role serves as a key liaison between project managers, technical teams, and business stakeholders, helping to streamline execution, accelerate delivery timelines, and improve overall solution quality. In addition to managing requirements and UAT processes, the Business Analyst will support project coordination efforts, enhance documentation standards, and contribute to scalable, repeatable project practices across the organization.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Own and manage all business, functional, and UAT requirements for assigned projects, ensuring clarity, completeness, and alignment with business objectives.
Gather, analyze, and validate requirements in collaboration with stakeholders, end users, and technical teams.
Coordinate all UAT activities, including test planning, test case validation, issue triage, and communication with internal and external partners.
Serve as the primary point of contact during UAT phases and provide final sign off on testing outcomes from the team’s standpoint.
Facilitate communication between business users, project managers, and technical teams to ensure expectations are aligned throughout the project lifecycle.
Support stakeholder testing efforts by providing guidance, clarifying requirements, and ensuring readiness for test execution.
Maintain comprehensive documentation of requirements, test plans, sign off materials, and other project deliverables.
Ensure documentation is accurate, up to date, and accessible for auditing, reference, and knowledge transfer.
Assist project managers with prioritization and sizing of incoming work based on business value, complexity, and resource availability.
Support backlog grooming and contribute to agile or sprint planning activities as needed.
Provide project coordination support at both initiation and delivery stages, ensuring requirement clarity and testing completeness.
Monitor requirement fulfillment, testing progress, and readiness to help keep projects on track and aligned with business goals.
Recommend improvements to requirement gathering processes, testing workflows, and documentation standards.
Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, cross functional alignment, and operational excellence.
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent work experience required.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
At least 3 years of experience in a similar role with exposure to project delivery, requirements gathering, and testing coordination.
Strong understanding of project management principles
Proven experience coordinating and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including issue triage and final sign off.
Demonstrated ability to document requirements, maintain traceability, and support test planning efforts.
Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, Smartsheet, or similar).
Experience working in agile, waterfall, or hybrid project environments.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to interface effectively with both technical and non technical stakeholders.
Strong analytical skills, critical thinking, and attention to detail.
Comfortable managing competing priorities and supporting multiple projects in a fast paced environment.
Experience within a matrixed or cross functional organization is a plus.
POSITION COMPETENCIES
Job Knowledge
Time Management
Accountability
Communication
Initiative
Customer Focus
.PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This is an office environment requiring extended sitting and computer work.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Remote
Here at Allied, we believe that great talent can thrive from anywhere. Our remote friendly culture offers flexibility and the comfort of working from home, while also ensuring you are set up for success. To support a smooth and efficient remote work experience, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 100Mbps download/25Mbps upload. Reliable internet service is essential for staying connected and productive.
The company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills, and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.
Compensation is not limited to base salary.  Allied values our Total Rewards, and offers a competitive Benefit Package including, but not limited to, Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability Insurance, Generous Paid Time Off, Tuition Reimbursement, EAP, and a Technology Stipend.
Allied reserves the right to amend, change, alter, and revise, pay ranges and benefits offerings at any time.  All applicants acknowledge that by applying to the position you understand that the specific pay range is contingent upon meeting the qualification and requirements of the role, and for the successful completion of the interview selection and process.  It is at the Company's discretion to determine what pay is provided to a candidate within the range associated with the role.Qualifications