Senior Business Analyst

Our Business Analyst is a critical role for defining and enabling business change. The role will perform detailed requirements analysis, documenting and evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement and developing and implementing solutions.

The role holder will translate the needs of the business into development requirements, act as a point of contact between the business and development team and translate any technical information into business language.

Responsibilities

• Performs detailed requirements analysis.
• Documents and evaluates business processes
• Understands business needs as they relate to a potential change or transformation.
• Simplifying requirements, so they are easily understood across the whole team.
• Leads ongoing reviews of business processes and develops optimisation strategies in conjunction with the development team.
• Conducts meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
• Manages plans to implement, test and deploy new solutions, upgrade
• Stays up-to-date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.
• Effectively communicates insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Gathers critical information for meetings with various stakeholders and produces useful reports.
• Provides leadership, training, coaching to the business.
• Manages projects, develops project plans, and monitors performance.
• Updates, implements and maintains procedures.
• Prioritizes a development workload based on business needs and requirements in conjunction with business leaders and the development team.
• Monitors deliverables and ensures timely completion of projects.
• Manages resources and priorities and communicates challenges to business management to agree priorities.

Knowledge

• Bachelors degree in business or related field or demonstrated relevant experience in lieu
• Prince 2 certification prefered
• Six Sigma certification prefered

Skills

• Six Sigma certification
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
• Advanced technical skills
• Excellent documentation skills
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations
• Ability to communicate at all levels of the business
• Excellent Microsoft application skills
• Excellent planning and time management skills

Experience

• Experience in requirement gathering
• Experience developing process maps and translating business requirements
• A history of leading and developing top-performing teams
• Experience of leading and supporting successful projects