Business Analyst - Manchester

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Business Analyst - Financial Services

Manchester

As the Business Analyst, you will work for a market-leader in the Financial Services space that is still experiencing rapid growth. As a Business Analyst, you will join a high-performance team that are dedicated to the end-to-end delivery of business and IT Change projects that impact the business as a whole.

As a Business Analyst you will be part of the Change Team and will be responsible for requirements definition and change request management.

The role consists of:

* Collating, understanding and defining business requirements for projects, portfolios and change requests, then translating these into requirements definitions.

* Managing and resolving conflicts between requirements.

* Developing business cases for IT applications development.

* Defining solutions that are appropriate to the business.

* Construction of detailed business requirements documents.

* Have the ability to present business benefits and articulate requirements at all levels including Senior Management.

* Analyse and document both current (As Is) and proposed (To Be) business processes from an operational and system perspective.

* Engineering of new business processes.

* Day to day management and prioritisation of change requests within the project against plans to ensure agreed deadlines are met.

* Communicate at high levels to key personnel and stakeholders. To be able to present findings and detail solutions.

Expertise

* Educated to degree level or relevant experience.

* Previous experience required of Business Analysis/Requirements Gathering and Business Change.

* Strong understanding of financial controls and risk.

* Good analytical and numeracy skills required.

* Data analysis skills using Excel to create pivot tables with data breakdowns.

* BCS Business Analysis qualification is preferable.

* ISEB qualification in Business Requirement Engineering is preferable.

* Knowledge of waterfall and agile development methods.

* Experience of UML, Use Cases and User Stories.

* Strong documentation skills, in particular the documenting of detailed requirements.