Business Analyst

Job Description

Our Client is looking for a dynamic Business Analyst who is not only able to gather requirements but also demonstrate a deep knowledge of the role with the ability to link the business and technology teams.

Travel to various Client sites throughout the UK when necessary.

• Experienced Business Analyst with significant demonstrable experience shaping and delivering a number of IT projects within a multi-divisional business
• Strong analytical and business analysis skill
• An understanding of assigned business functional domain including business operating model, activities, data, process, and information requirements
• Strong stakeholder management skills and proven experience in dealing with senior business users, determining requirements and priorities as well as resolving issues
• Strong understanding / recognised qualification relating to the disciplines of business analysis, and project management including best practice methodologies e.g. Prince 2 Practitioner, APMP, Scrum Master etc
• Strong interpersonal skills that enable working relationships to be developed at all levels across the business
• Understanding/ recognised qualification of IT Service Management e.g. ITIL
• Exhibits authority and leadership, takes responsibility, is Independent and self-starting
• Demonstrates teamwork at the highest level, highly collaborative approach, among the first to volunteer to help others succeed.
• Ability to engage and influence peers in I.T. and Business.
• Highly customer and delivery focused, meeting and exceeding customer expectations
• Demonstrates the Client Values (Respect, Teamwork, Integrity, Excellence)

• Works on defining business requirements and solution development with subject matter experts
• Works with the business and customers to agree business requirements and support the securing of the required investment funding
• Identifies the impact that any functional changes will have on the business and advises on how this should be managed and communicated so that the change is landed successfully & the benefits achieved are in accordance with the benefits management framework
• Proactively provides recommendations to current ways of working within IT and the business, supporting the implementation and embedding of any changes to current processes
• Documents key processes within area of responsibility in a clear and concise way
• Actively identifies risks, issues, dependencies and escalates upwards to ensure appropriate risk mitigation (as appropriate)