Kforce has a client that is seeking a Mid-Level Business Analyst (Loan Operations) in San Diego, CA. Overview: The Business Analyst II plays an important role in the organization by performing several activities related to the company's business analysis functions. The role is primarily responsible, under intermittent supervision, for eliciting, analyzing, validating, specifying, verifying, and managing the real needs of project stakeholders, including customers and end users from cross-functional departments. The Business Analyst II serves as the conduit between the business and the Information Systems software development team through which requirements flow for medium to complex projects. Essential Functions: * Partner with the project sponsor or senior-level Business Analyst(s) to document project objectives * Analyze scope of project in order to identify project stakeholders * Coordinate the elicitation, specification, and validation of the functional project requirements through the use of interviews, document analysis, viewpoints, etc. * Write project requirements specifications and business rules according to standard templates including acceptance criteria; use natural language to simply, unambiguously, and concisely convey specifications * Present or walk-through requirements with the technical team and stakeholders to refine solution and incorporate feedback * Enter, manipulate, and report on business rules stored in commercial requirements management tools (Project Management Database, Jira, Wiki, etc.); Maintain version control over project requirements, change control management and key project artifacts throughout the project and when developing close-out documentation * Establish and implement effective testing strategies to appropriately assess final programming changes; Work with other Business Analysts to identify cross impacts of final programming changes to other areas