Overview
You will join our high performance team of Business Analysts and act as a senior providing professional advice, managing and/or co-ordinating an area within Business Analysis. You will have the opportunity to lead technical areas within Business Analysis projects using available frameworks, tools and establishing project plans with on-time and on-budget project goals.
Responsibilities
• Manage and lead multiple phases of technical areas within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments
• Map full business processes and implement solutions for technological and process improvements within the context of overall business processes
• Gather business requirements from stakeholders and review existing ones to produce detailed business requirement specification documents
• Run workshops using proven techniques for creating detailed business, functional and non-functional requirements
• Assist and lead team contribution and communication to ensure complete requirement coverage
• Apply standards and methodologies. Provide expertise and support on use of methods and tools
• Responsible for needs analysis, task planning, process/data analysis and modelling and/or logical database design with relational databases
• Identify and assess risks to the success of the project
• Agree the project approach with stakeholders, and prepare realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans)
• Track activities against the project schedule and manage stakeholder involvement as appropriate
• Handle training and build competency within the practice
Qualifications
Essential:
• Relevant third level qualification or equivalent work experience
• Additional course or certification in Business Analysis
Desirable:
• Project Management qualification
• Management qualification or relevant years of experience
Skills
• Excellent client-facing skills
• People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
• Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• High value on openness and transparency
Technical:
• Knowledge in business analysis methodologies and has awareness of new and emerging technologies and developments
• Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge
• Proven ability in assuring project meets quality standards by providing guidance and developing procedures relating to product quality
• Experience in applying problem-solving methodologies and tools to diagnose and solve operational problems
• Experience in providing technical guidance to enable others and solving technical queries from junior colleagues
• Highly proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Experience of using recommended project control solutions for planning, scheduling
Experience
4 years + Business Analyst experience
Financial experience/background (2 years+ min – 5 years + preferential)
Transfer Agency/Funds experience
Agile preferential
Process improvement experience an advantage
Benefits
• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and set backs
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
