Job description
Overview
Our Douglas-based Client is an internationally focused banking and wealth management firm, providing solutions including wealth planning, investment management, and financial services to Clients worldwide. They now have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Business Analyst to join their digital team.
Role Profile
- Elicit, analyse, and validate business requirements from a range of business users and subject matter experts and help design innovative solutions to business problems
- Integrate the needs of a number of stakeholders across the business to produce an overallsolution
- Evaluate and optimise business and system processes internally and with external vendors to identify and define opportunities for improvement
- Identify and build strong relationships with stakeholders
- Support internal and external delivery teams in the production of functional solutionspecifications development testing UAT and implementation to ensure benefits are delivered
- Document requirements functions and processes as meets the need of the project andpresent back to stakeholders
- Map 'As Is' and 'To Be' procedures and perform gap analysis and lean analysis
- Using Agile methodology, write user stones that are clear, concise, and easy to understand and implement by the development team
- Attend and contribute to team dally stand ups andattend business analysis guild meetings
- Work closely with your team to agree current priorities, resource allocation, and deliversolutions satisfying overall business goals
Person Profile
- You will hold a relevant qualification such as Agile, BCS, Prince 2, or Lean Six Sigma
- Experience in various delivery methodologies (principally Waterfall, Agile, and Incremental)
- Familiarity with all phases of the Software Development lifecycle
- In-depth knowledge and experience of working in both banking and investment environments
- Knowledge and experience of analytical tools (e g Jira)
- Experience in using a wide range of analysis techniques including workshop facilitation,requirements elicitation and process mapping
- Systems and Business Analysis experience
- Proven track record of helping deliver successful software, IT and business projects/solutions
- Knowledge and understanding of systems testing and UAT (regression testing, smoke testing, automated test tools)
- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
- In-depth understanding of business needs with the ability to establish/ maintain high levels of customer trust and confidence
- Ability to integrate well into a team and build effective relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and business users
- Creative and innovative to maximise the value of solutions
- Ability to see tasks through to completion without significant guidance
- Ability to take strategic direction from senior executives
- Understand Agile methodology and the concept of sprints and sprint planning
- Understands how an overall project development process works and how the role fits into the process
- Proactive and able to use initiative
- Able to think in a creative manner to deliver innovative solutions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Adopt a positive, flexible approach to work
- Good time management skills and ability to multitask