Senior Business Analyst

We are requesting a Senior Business Analyst with strong stakeholder engagement skills and ideally with experience in Finance and Commercial business processes. They will build and maintain relationships across a diverse stakeholder group, including Finance, Commercial, Operations, and DWP Change Programms (e.g., Synergy). Understand and represent their needs rather than their wants. Facilitate discussions across the stakeholders to capture requirements and broker alignment across the group.

Preferred Experience:

Prior involvement in finance/commercial system migrations. Familiarity with ERP systems such as Oracle eBusiness Suite, Oracle Fusion, or similar platforms. Understanding of financial and commercial business processes. The following technical skills, knowledge and experience are required:
Lead workshops, interviews, focus groups and other techniques to effectively understand the business problems and needs Translate the business problem and needs into a set of options for the future solution Manage stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment across business and technical stakeholders. Ensure issues and risks raised are resolved in an appropriate manner. Document and consult on requirements in a layout and format that can be easily understood by all stakeholders Communicate effectively across both technical and business stakeholders, ensuring the understanding of requirements and acceptance criteria is aligned.

Understand business processes and activities that impact and that are impacted by the product or service. Selecting the appropriate best practice techniques to model business processes, existing and new, in order to achieve consensus. As part of the modelling process, work to identify potential process improvements, considering risks, issues and benefits. Support in the production of business cases and producing cost/benefit analysis for proposed solutions.