Senior Business Analyst – Kings Cross

## Senior Business Analyst Apply locations:
Kings Cross, London time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 2 Days Agojob requisition :
UMG-26594

Music is Universal     It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

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** The A Side: A Day in The Life
** The Senior Business Analyst is a liaison between our business and development teams, driving software products to success by recognising strategic need and tactical goals. Managing the expectations of our stakeholders across multiple teams is essential with a solution-oriented mindset. They will understand the needs of the business and convert those expectations, utilising extensive domain knowledge, into a clear solution for both end users and development teams within a big data environment, playing an essential role for collaborative and successful products.
** The B Side:
Skills & Experience
**** Be Technical
*** Document and agree requirements with end users
* Form concise and detailed documentation, ensuring it is delivered to the development team in an appropriate form utilising the following techniques to support the software development lifecycle:  + User stories  + Process maps  + Design wireframes
* Orchestrate the creation of tickets, refine tickets through estimation with the team and sprint management, utilising scrum master principles
* Define User Acceptance test plans
* Lead the technical team and undertake technical analysis with the business
* Create business models incorporating process and data modelling
* Develop a sound knowledge of the business domain whilst building an understanding of key dependencies on systems both up and downstream
* Assist our programme managers in overall project management & delivery
* Be a passionate advocate of the product vision
* Contribute to effective presentations and workshops with key business stakeholders
** Be Collaborative
*** Build positive relationships with business stakeholders and development teams by understanding challenges and proposing innovative solutions
* Facilitate regular meetings with stakeholders to gather requirements, update them on progress and addressing concerns from the development team and other business users
* Communicate project status to executive level business leaders and development team members throughout the course of a project
* Manage prioritisation of the product backlog to be continually aligned to business value
* Acquire subject matter expertise and provide thought leadership in our products and processes, to drive excellence
* Experience working with UX design teams
** Person Specification
**** Necessary
* ** Demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst/Product Owner, or similar role
* A strong track record across the full lifecycle of projects, proving the ability to communicate with business stakeholders, understand business pain points, translate requirements into solutions, and transfer knowledge to an Agile project team for multiple IT products
* Strong back-end skills, including solid experience in writing SQL queries and analysing data
* End to end experience of the product and…